Dr. Matthias Ehrat

Projects

• Evaluation of Product-Market Fit for novel endoscopy solution in urology indications / Deputy project leader / completed
• Review, outlook, foresight: Working World 4.0 in the Swiss MEM sector / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Barth, L. et al. (2023) 'From data to value in smart waste management : optimizing solid waste collection with a digital twin-based decision support system', Decision Analytics Journal, 9(100347). doi: 10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100347.
• Barth, L. et al. (2023) 'Value creation with digital twins : application-oriented conceptual framework and case study', Applied Sciences, 13(6), p. 3511. doi: 10.3390/app13063511.
• Vogt, H. et al. (2021) 'Welche datenbasierten Servicemodelle sind erfolgsversprechend für KMU der Maschinen‑, Anlagen‑, Elektro- und Metallindustrie?', HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 58, pp. 521–536. doi: 10.1365/s40702-021-00728-w.
• Angerer, A., Kursar, M. and Ehrat, M. (2015) 'Innovationsschutz in KMUs : ein Pragmatischer Ansatz für das Management gewerblicher Schutzrechte', Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 84(2), pp. 135–137.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Barth, L. et al. (2022) 'Value generation in the product lifecycle with digital twins : status quo in Swiss companies', in Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, pp. 4528–4537. doi: 10.24251/HICSS.2022.551.
• Galeno, G. et al. (2022) 'Value creation with digital twins in the end-of-lifecycle phase of smart products : applied data resources in academic literature', in West, S., Meierhofer, J., and Mangla, U. (eds) Smart Services Summit : Smart Services Supporting the New Normal. Springer, pp. 85–94. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97042-0_9.
• Barth, L. et al. (2021) 'Value creation with digital twins : framework validation and analysis of further development priorities', in West, S., Meierhofer, J., and Ganz, C. (eds) Smart services summit : digital as an enabler for smart service business development. Springer, pp. 35–47. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72090-2_4.
• Barth, L. et al. (2020) 'Systematization of digital twins : ontology and conceptual framework', in ICISS 2020 : Proceedings of the 2020 The 3rd International Conference on Information Science and System. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 13–23. doi: 10.1145/3388176.3388209.
• Holler, M. et al. (2020) 'The general data protection regulation in financial services industries : how do companies approach the implementation of the GDPR and what can we learn from their approaches?', in 82. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB 2020), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 March 2020.
• Barth, L., Ehrat, M. and Fuchs, R. (2019) 'Classifying digital twins : a three-dimensional conceptual reference model', in Meierhofer, J. and West, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd Smart Services Summit. Thun: Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services, pp. 22–30. Available at: https://data-innovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Smart-Services-Summit-2019-proceedings.pdf.

Other publications

• Meylan, G. et al. (2019) Rückblick, Ausblick, Weitblick : Arbeitswelt 4.0 in der Schweizer MEM-Branche. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-29074.
• Ehrat, M. and Lustenberger, M. (2016) 'Risiko von 'Industrie 4.0″', Competence, 2010(7), pp. 34–36. Available at: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/ueber-uns/sml-magazin-competence-nr7.pdf.
• Angerer, A., Ehrat, M. and Kick, A. (2014) 'Wenig Aufwand, grosse Wirkung : Lagerplanung', Logistik Heute, 35(6), pp. 28–29.
• Heim, E., Matiz, D. and Ehrat, M. (2014) 'Offshoring oder Reshoring? : aktuelle Trends und eine Entscheidungshilfe für KMU in Hochlohnländern', Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, 109(12), pp. 920–922. doi: 10.3139/104.111253.
• Maier, A., Erlach, K. and Ehrat, M. (2013) 'Der Kundenkontakt bestimmt die Montage : Vorgehen zur optimierten Gestaltung der Montage von variantenreichen Instrumenten', Productivity Management, 18(5), pp. 27–30. Available at: https://www.wiso-net.de/document/PPS__059D57203A421371C7C354CA4B3BEBD4.
• Angerer, A., Nägeli, H. and Ehrat, M. (2013) 'Logistikpartner ermitteln', IO Management Zeitschrift, 2013(5), pp. 37–41.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Vogt, H., Ehrat, M. and Holler, M. (2020) 'Steigerung der Datenteilbereitschaft in B2B als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von neuen, datenbasierten Services', in 5. F&E Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Zürich, 5. Februar 2020.
• Holler, M., Ehrat, M. and Vogt, H. (2020) 'Development of a smart connected product system for the industrial piping business', in 5. F&E Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Zürich, 5. Februar 2020.
• Barth, L., Ehrat, M. and Rockel, G. (2019) 'Systematization of digital twins : ontology and conceptual framework', in PEFnet 2019 : Extended Abstracts. Mendel University Press. Available at: https://pefnet.mendelu.cz/wcd/w-rek-pefnet/pefnet19-extended_abstracts_web.pdf.
• Ehrat, M. (2016) 'Optimierung der kundenseitigen Wertschöpfung : Potentiale von Industrie 4.0', in F&E-Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Brugg-Windisch, 19. Januar 2016.

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