Industrial Internet of Things Platforms, short IIoT Platforms, form the foundation of digital manufacturing. To facilitate companies in implementing these platforms, IT service provider Adesso and the Fraunhofer IPA have summarized their expertise on the deployment and benefits in a white paper.
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Experts in automation software as well as production technology and automation are working together to expand the application areas of Robotic Process Automation for industrial production. Current use cases include quality control in cleanrooms and monitoring a process for cell cultivation.
The Fraun…
31 well-known European research labs cooperate in the Network of Excellence euROBIN which is running from July 2022 until June 2026. Fraunhofer IPA is particularly involved in using robotics to reach one of the UN »Sustainable Development Goals«.
euROBIN is a new network of excellence that brings toget…
How can manufacturers respond more quickly to global crises, cope with supply chain disruptions, and at the same time cater to individual customer wishes? On behalf of acatech, Fraunhofer researchers investigated to what extent cyber-physical matrix production systems can help companies address thes…
On July 14, 2022, the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Economics, Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, together with the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA, Prof. Thomas Bauernhansl, as well as Georg Gewers from Gewers & Pudewill Architects, inaugurated the new…
Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA digitize the value stream analysis together with the Stuttgart-based software provider iFAKT. This aims to make this proven optimization method feasible in the future with significantly less effort and almost in re…
Probably, surface technology plays a crucial role in the transformation towards a hydrogen economy. The anodes of conventional electrolyzers are coated with iridium, one of the rarest elements on the planet. To reduce the iridium content to an absolute minimum in the future, researchers are currentl…
The Fraunhofer IPA is taking new approaches in assembly planning: Software analyzes existing CAD data, creates assembly instructions from the obtained information, and automatically generates cost-effective assembly aids.
Assembly planning and the assembly process itself are currently still costly a…
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA has conducted an audit of the machine learning component "Transaction Miner" from the information service provider Experian. The Transaction Miner is a core component of Experian's fraud prevention solution AI:drian. The audit con…
The Transfer Center 5G4KMU operates 5G campus networks at five locations in Baden-Württemberg. Researchers develop and test innovative products and business models together with industry there. An Open Lab Day on July 14th will showcase the first demonstrators resulting from these collaborations.
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