International Exchange with Australia: IPS Strengthens Cooperation with the University of Sydney

The exchange focused on three main topics: participation in an ISO meeting on the Equipment Behaviour Catalogue (EBC), the development of a new master’s program within the DAAD-funded project DAADIE, and the advancement and transfer of the Green Digital Twin in the BeverGreen project to Australia.

The first focus area was IPS’s involvement in international standardization activities. As part of a Working Group 13 meeting, representatives from Australia, Japan, and South Korea discussed current developments related to the Equipment Behaviour Catalogue (EBC). The meeting took place in the context of the Harmoniq research project and aimed to develop standardized approaches for describing and modeling the behavior of production equipment.

Another key focus was the DAADIE project (funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). The goal of the project is to design and introduce a new Master’s degree program in “Industrial Engineering” at University of Technology Sydney in close collaboration with Technische Universität Dortmund. Both academic expertise and industrial requirements from Germany are incorporated into the curriculum development. IPS plays a central role in shaping the program’s content and contributes its experience from both research and practice. In the long term, this will result in an internationally oriented study program that prepares students for the challenges of modern production systems.

In addition, within the BeverGreen project, recent developments related to the Green Digital Twin were transferred to Australia and further developed locally. This builds on two already established, identical cyber-physical brewing labs—one in Dortmund and one in Sydney. Both sites are connected through a shared digital twin, forming a unique infrastructure for international collaboration. During the exchange, the focus was on updating and extending the existing system. New developments and insights from Germany were integrated on-site in Sydney, enabling continued cross-location analysis, comparison, and optimization of production processes.