Abstract
Digitization is popular in today’s business ecosystems. However, digitization is not straight forward and introduces challenges such as sensor issues, edge computing, network dependencies, and security. Therefore, the idea is to propose a modelling method enabling to guide to key aspects for the digitization process. For this reason, the proposed modelling method prototype concentrates on (a) the collection of requirements, (b) the analysis of the contextual environment as well as (c) the monitoring by guiding the selection of an appropriate digitization device. The modelling method is extended by a physical OMiLAB Innovation Corner experiment that eases on one hand understanding the domain problem, and on the other hand facilitates the selection of an appropriate digitization unit by taking into account potential physical issues as well as the requirements related to the business perspective.