Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sustainably optimized value creation, short "AI-noW" – under this heading, scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA are now translating the latest insights and results of applied research into industrial practice. To illus…

To contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Stuttgart research institute quickly developed a prototype of a mobile cleaning and disinfection robot. It autonomously travels to potentially contaminated objects such as door handles, thoroughly disinfects them, and does so in a resource-efficient and…

The VDI Guideline 2083-19, concerning the airtightness of cleanrooms, already considers all relevant aspects of room airtightness during the planning phase and can thus prevent laboratory and cleanroom operators from unpleasant surprises. Retrofitting existing laboratories and cleanrooms is often as…

Cleanroom technology is and remains a specialized field that requires particular expertise. This is especially evident in the context of tenders. Specification documents are not always complete or effective. Therefore, STZ EURO has recently made an example available on its own website: a sample spec…

(Re-)Qualifications and maintenance in cleanroom technology often take days or even weeks. Production or cost pressures are making long maintenance intervals increasingly difficult to accommodate. The STZ EURO responds with preparatory planning, digital technologies, and experienced measurement team…

TRUMPF and Fraunhofer IPA conclude research cooperation until 2025. The goal is to develop solutions for networked sheet metal manufacturing with Artificial Intelligence.

The high-tech company TRUMPF and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA in Stuttgart have agreed on…

Autonomous, green, complex, faster, and more flexible: Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA, together with management consultants from Ginkgo Management Consulting, have studied how supply chain management will change by the year 2040.

The self-drivin…

For assembly tasks, flexible robot programming has so far been complex. Improving this is the goal of the research project »Rob-aKademI«, which started on July 1, 2020. The technologies used within, especially machine learning, are intended to make programming easier and more autonomous.

The partners…

Small and medium medical-technology enterprises (SME) in Baden Württemberg are set to soon use artifical intelligence (AI) methods for the improvement and new development of their products. The expertise for this has been provided by the Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology (PA…

The media have long declared the industrial revolution "Industry 4.0" along with its offshoots like "Mobility 4.0," but little of this has yet been felt in everyday manufacturing. The biggest obstacle is safety concerns, while the technical possibilities for entering digitalization and networking ar…