The focus of OMiLAB@TU Ilmenau is on model-based development, simulation, and testing of digital services to promote innovation and practical research in business informatics.
The Ilmenau node offers an interactive workspace for developing, visualizing, testing, and evaluating business processes for digital services. OMiLAB@TU Ilmenau supports teachers and students, particularly in business information systems engineering, in systematically modeling, simulating, and optimizing service processes for information systems. Service-oriented business models, interaction scenarios, and process chains can be digitally mapped and tested in a close to real-life cyber-physical way with robots and sensors. Digital twins of business services are developed, opening up opportunities for innovation, analysis, and evaluation. We aim to promote interdisciplinary work between computer science, engineering, and economics and support practical research on topics such as servitization, smart services, and business process management. The node builds a central component in promoting digital competence in model-based thinking, teaching, and examination, as well as innovation skills in the service industry.
Competences
- Process Modeling and Analysis
- Business Process Innovation
- Information Systems Engineering in Services
About the Hosting Organisation
The Department of Economic Sciences and Media at TU Ilmenau combines economic and social science disciplines with a strong practical focus and technological orientation. Its research focuses on three core areas: “Digital Economy and Society,” “Innovation, Sustainability, and New Technologies,” and “Philosophy of Science and Methods.” The department’s degree programs—ranging from industrial engineering and business information systems engineering to media economics and applied communication science—combine technological and economic skills with analytical and creative thinking. Areas of focus include digital business models, innovation management, information systems engineering, economics, media production, and sustainable corporate management. Through practical teaching concepts, international cooperation, and close ties to industry, the department optimally prepares its students for leadership and creative tasks in an increasingly digitalized world. Hence, it stands for excellent education, application-oriented research, and forward-looking impulses for digital transformation in the economy, communication, and media. The Institute of Business Information Systems Engineering is one of five institutes within the Department of Economic Sciences and Media.