In recent months, many manufacturing companies have had to reorganize their processes and adapt to the "new normal". For Germany as an industrial location, this means breaking new ground and increasingly relying on digital structures.
read more...In March 2021, the container ship "Ever Given" turned upside down in the Suez Canal - a bizarre, almost comical moment at first glance. But this blockade of one of the world's most important trade routes quickly became a problem.
read more...How technical system diagnostics drives the success of new technologies.
read more...Conference "AI for Laser Technology"
At the second "AI for Laser Technology" conference on September 28 and 29, 2021, the current status of the application of artificial intelligence in laser material processing will be discussed.
read more...Man and machine. People were already fascinated by this topic more than 100 years ago. In 1909, E. M. Forster described a world in "The Machine Stops" in which people are completely dependent on a machine and thus surrender to their own downfall.
read more...Machine learning processes open up new possibilities for evaluating data in a useful way, thereby increasing the level of intelligence of machines and systems.
read more...New AI methods for picking robots
Festo is conducting research in the FLAIROP project together with KIT and partners from Canada to make picking robots more intelligent using distributed AI methods. To this end, they are investigating how training data from several stations, several plants or even companies can be used without participants having to disclose sensitive company data.
read more...Unused potential in the production process, maintenance and quality control can be made visible with the help of a digital twin. The digital twin is scalable and easy to implement.
read more...In an interview with Andreas Mühlbauer, Ralf Reines from the VDW's Research and Technology Department explains the role of predictive maintenance and artificial intelligence in machine tool manufacturing.
read more...People and the digital factory
Humans and digitalization - symbiosis or potential for conflict? Andreas Mühlbauer spoke about this with Tobias Adlon, Senior Engineer and Head of the Factory Planning Department at the WZL at RWTH Aachen University.
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