Michael Schöffler

- Software Architect for the Data Integration Platform Team (about 25 people), responsible for system and data integrations in Tetra Pak’s own factories (about 45 locations)
- Technical planning and coordination of system and data integrations, e.g., with Siemens S7 Simatic PLCs (TIA Portal, S7 300/400 and 1500), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), and SAP
- Designs of Azure solutions for various cloud-based software services (Azure, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Enterprise Scale,…)
- Creation of concepts, designs, and prototypes for innovation projects, e.g., cloud usage, new data integration approaches,…

- Cross-departmental system architect and point of contact for software-related products in the "Assembly Technology" business unit for cross-cutting topics (architecture, quality, security, …)
- Planning and implementation of a business-wide migration strategy for the existing portfolio towards ctrlX Automation, an automation platform from Bosch Rexroth
- Product Engineer Quality for the products ActiveCockpit and ActiveShuttle
- Primary contact for Open Source Software across the entire business unit
- Security responsible (Local ITL) for all development labs in the business unit (around 7 labs)
- Technical Project Manager for software development within the fastening technology portfolio

- Research in the fields of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), software-defined factories, digital twins and automation platforms
- Conceptualization, design, and implementation of SmartControl, an internal software research platform for cyber-physical systems to improve setup times, flexibility, and performance of industrial applications (Azure DevOps, C/C++, Java, DDS, oneM2M, OPC UA, Python)
- Project member of the publicly funded BMBF project BaSys 4.0
- Representation of Bosch Corporate Research at project meetings and working groups (Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, Plattform I4.0, ZVEI, VDI,…)
- Corporate supervision of an industrial PhD thesis in the area of real-time communication of distributed production systems (Time-Sensitive Networking, Linux, Linux RT Patch, TCP, Real-time C)

- Dissertation "Overall Listening Experience — A New Approach to Subjective Evaluation of Audio"
- Design, implementation and result analysis of listening tests and experiments focusing on auditory perception
- Realization and pushing of novel listening experiment methods, in particular web-based and Virtual Reality-based listening experiments
- Implementations of prediction algorithms for audio quality

Expertise areas: auditory perception, digital signal processing, machine learning, quality perception, research, Virtual Reality, web technologies
Methods: academic writing, hypothesis testing, listening tests, Design of Experiments
Technologies: C/C++, HTML5, Java, JavaScript, JQuery Mobile, JQuery UI, Keras, Matlab, Python, UML