From September 10th to 13th, 2024, our team participated in the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2024), opens an external URL in a new window in Padova, Italy. This event serves as a platform where academic and industry experts meet to discuss advancements in industrial automation and the latest factory technologies.

Professor Alois Zoitl remarked, “Attending ETFA is a recurring highlight of my yearly schedule. We were pleased to reconnect with research collaborators from other institutions, and together, we laid the groundwork for new research papers and future projects."

Our contributions

Deodorant for Shotgun Surgery Bad Smell in IEC 61499-based Control Software
Dunja Životin, Lisa Sonnleithner, Alois Zoitl

Variability Extraction Methodologies for Developing Reusable Control Software Artifacts in IEC 61499
Shubham Sharma, Dunja Životin, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl

Generating PLC Code with Universal Large Language Models
Jérôme Pfeiffer, Jingxi Zhang, Kilian Tran, Andreas Wortmann, Bianca Wiesmayr

Variability-Driven Knowledge Discovery in IEC 61499 Systems
Anna-Lena Hager, Shubham Sharma, Lisa Sonnleithner

A Review of Publicly Available Datasets from Manufacturing Systems
Valentina Golendukhina, Bianca Wiesmayr, Michael Felderer