Digital information - potentials for TeleX applications

The paper describes how the application of new information and communication technologies in manufacturing systems and technical consumer goods gives companies the possibility to create value-added services in the usage phase, e.g. through remote operations or virtual facility management. In this regard, a communication platform for a digital factory has been developed to make diagnoses of the machine, program changes or process optimizations possible in less time by using an integrated control system, visualization and surveillance. The precise reproduction of the production system in a virtual world makes it possible to analyse and optimize all influences on the real production in that virtual world.