SmartFactoryKL has many years of experience in a wide variety of areas related to Industrie 4.0. With these competencies, industrial companies can be optimally supported and joint projects can be realized.
Our teams’ priority research areas:
Automation
- Modular concepts for equipment, infrastructures, software, and industrial Plug-and-Play
- Software engineering of modular and decentral architectures based on CPS
- Semantic descriptions and data modeling of services, processes, and equipment
- Use of the tools and methods of the “Digital Factory” in an Industrie 4.0 context
- Real time communication between control terminals and the IT environment (Industrial Ethernet, TSN, ..)
- Linking Industrie 4.0 and the approaches of lean automation
- Use of apps in the production for dynamic extension of control terminal functions
- Decentral computing tools, management of data and services in the age of edge computing
Human-Technology Systems
- Knowledge management in the production environment (semantic structuring of the entire value adding process, production cycles)
- Development of context-sensitive human-machine interfaces (HMI) in various fields of application (mobile maintenance support, monitoring of control terminals and equipment, design of manual work stations)
- Develop systems for worker support (mobile worker assistance, collaborative work, assessment and design of job sequences – workflows, to include intention recognition)
- Develop concepts for the use of innovative technologies and devices in the production environment (manual work stations, worker assistance) and practical evaluation in an industrial environment
Digital production processes
- Process models and concepts for the integration of Industrie 4.0 solutions in existing environments and digital networking of IT systems and work units
- Lean automation methods
- Co-simulation-based process optimization (digital twin)
- Semantic information models
- Event-based plant and equipment controls
- CPPS architecture
- Vertical integration
Do you have any questions or are you interested in a cooperation? Please contact us!