Dr. Matthias Ehrat

ZHAW School of Management and Law
Centre of Product Management
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 66 31
matthias.ehrat@zhaw.ch

Projects

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

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Barth, Linard; Schweiger, Lukas; Benedech, Rodolfo Andres; Ehrat, Matthias,

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).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dajour.2023.100347
Barth, Linard; Schweiger, Lukas; Galeno, Gianluca; Schaal, Nikolas; Ehrat, Matthias,

2023.

Value creation with digital twins : application-oriented conceptual framework and case study.

Applied Sciences.

13(6), pp. 3511.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063511
Vogt, Helen; Ehrat, Matthias; Fuchs, Rainer; Holler, Manuel,

2021.

Welche datenbasierten Servicemodelle sind erfolgsversprechend für KMU der Maschinen‑, Anlagen‑, Elektro- und Metallindustrie?.

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

58, pp. 521-536.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1365/s40702-021-00728-w
Angerer, Alfred; Kursar, Manuela; Ehrat, Matthias,

2015.

Innovationsschutz in KMUs : ein Pragmatischer Ansatz für das Management gewerblicher Schutzrechte.

Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation.

84(2), pp. 135-137.

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Galeno, Gianluca; Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Demiriz, Umut,

2022.

Value creation with digital twins in the end-of-lifecycle phase of smart products : applied data resources in academic literature [paper].

In:

West, Shaun; Meierhofer, Jürg; Mangla, Utpal, eds.,

Smart Services Summit 2021, Zurich, Switzerland, 22 October 2021.

Springer.

pp. 85-94.

Progress in IS (PROIS).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97042-0_9
Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Galeno, Gianluca; Holler, Manuel; Savic, Nikola,

2022.

Value generation in the product lifecycle with digital twins : status quo in Swiss companies [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), virtual, 3-6 January 2022.

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

pp. 4528-4537.

Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.551
Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Holler, Manuel; Fuchs, Rainer,

2021.

Value creation with digital twins : framework validation and analysis of further development priorities [paper].

In:

West, Shauen; Meierhofer, Jürg; Ganz, Christopher, eds.,

Smart services summit : digital as an enabler for smart service business development.

Third Smart Services Summit 2020, Zurich (online), 23 October - 23 December 2020.

Springer.

pp. 35-47.

Progress in IS.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72090-2_4
Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Fuchs, Rainer; Haarmann, Jens,

2020.

Systematization of digital twins : ontology and conceptual framework [paper].

In:

ICISS 2020 : Proceedings of the 2020 The 3rd International Conference on Information Science and System.

3rd International Conference On Information Science And Systems ICISS 2020, Cambridge, UK, 19-22 March 2020.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 13-23.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3388176.3388209
Holler, Manuel; van Giffen, Benjamin; Benzell, Seth; Ehrat, Matthias,

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? [paper].

In:

82. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB 2020), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17-20 March 2020.
Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Fuchs, Rainer,

2019.

Classifying digital twins : a three-dimensional conceptual reference model [paper].

In:

Meierhofer, Jürg; West, Shaun, eds.,

Proceedings of the 2nd Smart Services Summit.

2nd Smart Services Summit, Zürich, Switzerland, 13 September 2019.

Thun:

Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services.

pp. 22-30.

Available from: https://data-innovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Smart-Services-Summit-2019-proceedings.pdf

Other publications

Meylan, Grégoire; Ehrat, Matthias; Schmid, Marc; Frei, Pascal; Qvist-Sorensen, Peter,

2019.

Rückblick, Ausblick, Weitblick : Arbeitswelt 4.0 in der Schweizer MEM-Branche.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29074
Ehrat, Matthias; Lustenberger, Michael,

2016.

Risiko von "Industrie 4.0".

Competence.

2010(7), pp. 34-36.

Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/ueber-uns/sml-magazin-competence-nr7.pdf
Heim, Edgar; Matiz, Dario; Ehrat, Matthias,

2014.

Offshoring oder Reshoring? : aktuelle Trends und eine Entscheidungshilfe für KMU in Hochlohnländern.

Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb.

109(12), pp. 920-922.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3139/104.111253
Angerer, Alfred; Ehrat, Matthias; Kick, Anina,

2014.

Wenig Aufwand, grosse Wirkung : Lagerplanung.

Logistik Heute.

35(6), pp. 28-29.
Maier, Alban; Erlach, Klaus; Ehrat, Matthias,

2013.

Der Kundenkontakt bestimmt die Montage : Vorgehen zur optimierten Gestaltung der Montage von variantenreichen Instrumenten.

Productivity Management.

18(5), pp. 27-30.

Available from: https://www.wiso-net.de/document/PPS__059D57203A421371C7C354CA4B3BEBD4
Angerer, Alfred; Nägeli, Hans; Ehrat, Matthias,

2013.

Logistikpartner ermitteln.

IO Management Zeitschrift.

2013(5), pp. 37-41.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Holler, Manuel; Ehrat, Matthias; Vogt, Helen,

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.
Vogt, Helen; Ehrat, Matthias; Holler, Manuel,

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.
Barth, Linard; Ehrat, Matthias; Rockel, Georg,

2019.

Systematization of digital twins : ontology and conceptual framework.

In:

PEFnet 2019 : Extended Abstracts.

23rd European Scientific Conference of Doctoral Students, Brno, Czech Republic, 28 November 2019.

Mendel University Press.

Available from: https://pefnet.mendelu.cz/wcd/w-rek-pefnet/pefnet19-extended_abstracts_web.pdf
Ehrat, Matthias,

2016.

Optimierung der kundenseitigen Wertschöpfung : Potentiale von Industrie 4.0.

In:

F&E-Konferenz zu Industrie 4.0, Brugg-Windisch, 19. Januar 2016.

Available from: http://www.industrie2025.ch/de/agenda/fe-konferenz.html

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