Data Fabric

In this episode, Clemens talks with Stefan Jankovic, postdoctoral researcher at TU Wien, about a 2.5-year collaboration that produced a fully operational digital twin for a direct air capture pilot plant. Stefan explains how his research group combines experimental work, measurement technology, and process simulation to better understand and optimize carbon capture — and why centralized data management turned out to be the critical foundation for everything else.

The conversation covers how the team previously built a digital twin on Microsoft Azure, what worked and what didn't, and why a colleague's recommendation of inmation changed their approach entirely. Stefan walks...

In this episode, Florian Seidl, Business Unit Manager for Industrial Informatics at cts Group, sits down with Florian Werner, Principal Consultant at Xenium, to discuss what it actually takes to turn fragmented shop floor data into usable, scalable information in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The conversation starts with what both see in reality when they walk into a pharma production site: package-unit driven organizations where every line comes from a different vendor, data lives in isolated PLCs with inconsistent naming, and the focus is on keeping production running — not on data strategy. From there, they work through the entire arc of...