Mapping Cloud-Edge-IoT opportunities and challenges in Europe

While current data processing predominantly occurs in centralized facilities, with a minor portion handled by smart objects, a shift is anticipated, with a surge in data originating from smart devices. This evolution necessitates reconfiguring the infrastructure, emphasising computing capabilities at the cloud's "edge" closer to data sources. This change symbolises the merging of cloud, edge, and IoT technologies into a unified network infrastructure - a Computing Continuum - poised to redefine tech interactions, offering novel prospects across diverse sectors. The computing continuum is emerging as a cornerstone of tech advancement in the contemporary digital era. This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the computing continuum, highlighting its potential, practical implications, and the adjustments required to tackle existing challenges. It emphasises the continuum's real-world applications, market trends, and its significance in shaping Europe's tech future

Changeability in Engineering: Symbioses of Agile Methodologies and Virtual Engineering

The digital twin is a synchronized digital representation of a production system and a major aspect of the current challenges in industrial digitalization. Once considered from beginning of engineering it can be created aside the production system and can produce benefits in engineering and operations. We present a virtual engineering method that utilizes the digital twin and allows required disciplines to work already in parallel in early phases of engineering. This reduces risks in later phases but also requires more coordination, design matching, and changes traditional processes. Therefor we present a hybrid management concept based on a combination of the V-Model and agile management. The goal of the concept is to support the implementation of virtual engineering and the required change process using virtual engineering as an example of the digital transformation