The Chair of Production Systems (LPS) located at Bochum University (RUB) has a long time expertise in basic and applied research within the areas of production management, production automation and industrial robots. Amongst others, LPS has many years of experience in the areas of application and optimization of automated production systems including topics like digital twins, cyber-physical systems, and I4.0 topics like future service concepts. LPS is involved in several standardization activities like AutomationML and virtual commissioning, and is ongoing working on enhancements of related standards.