Early Learnings from a Logistics Testbed
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METHODS
Figure 2-1 : Testbed in the intralogistics .
To generate the research results , we used a single case study as a research method following Yin ' s approach . 9 To complete the testbeds , 20 workshops were held with managing directors of the three participating companies . Researchers were present during technical implementations and held an active role in coordinating the collaboration between the three companies .
Our results were collected alongside the workshop in co-operation with the participating , in the form of written protocols and photo protocols done by the researchers . The data analysis was conducted through qualitative content analysis based on Mayring . 10 The researchers identified qualitative patterns in the collected data and preliminarily aggregated those , arriving at our findings .
4 FINDINGS
The results of the testbed show that the cooperative use of digital twins in a data ecosystem can be used to realize a variety of value scenarios in intralogistics . Our work identified preliminary service types that were placed in the context of the Industry IoT Consortium ’ s three-tier
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Yin , 2018
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