News 2018

US Delegation visits the birthplace of Industry 4.0
As part of a information trip on Industry 4.0, initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, a business delegation from the

Focus on 5G at SPS IPC Drives
SmartFactoryKL und DFKI präsentieren diese Woche auf ihrem gemeinsamen Messestand die Themen 5G, TSN und Edge. Die drahtlose Kommunikation per 5G wird in der Industrie eine maßgebliche Rolle bei innovativen Themen wie smarte Produktion, vernetzte Maschinen, drahtlose Sensorik oder auch intelligente Mobilität spielen. Bereits seit einigen Monaten testet SmartFactoryKL an ihrer Industrie 4.0 Demo-Anlage den Einsatz der Mobilfunkgeneration 5G für die Echtzeitübertragung großer Datenmengen.

Helbling Business Advisors join SmartFactoryKL
“Our latest member helps us to bridge the gap between research and implementation.” With these words, Prof. Dr. Detlef Zühlke welcomes Helbling as a new

Royal Visit from the Netherlands
Dutch royal couple and business delegation tour SmartFactoryKL.

10th SmartFactoryKL Innovation Day
About 70 invited guests representing politics, business, and research convened under the motto “Industrie 4.0 in Practice – Users report.”

SmartFactoryKL at IMTS in Chicago
Prof. Dr. Detlef Zühlke, CEO of SmartFactoryKL, represented Germany and held a key note on „Global Challenges for Industrie 4.0“.

Humans and Computers 2018
At the conference, SmartFactoryKL presented latest research results in the workshop “Smart Factories: Employee-centered information systems for the collaboration of the future”.

The World of Future Work in Kaiserslautern
The Youtube blogger Doktor Whatson introduced SmartFactoryKL within the “Science Year 2018”.

Experience Kl: Great interest in the work of SmartFactoryKL
Many visitors took the opportunity to discover more about SmartFactoryKL and the SME 4.0 Competence Center Kaiserslautern at the “Future Exhibition”.

Visit of the Federal Minister for Education and Research
Anja Karliczek, Federal Minister for Education and Research, came to Kaiserslautern with the Minister for Scientific Affairs from Rhineland-Palatinate, Prof. Dr. Konrad Wolf, to learn

Metroplan new member of SmartFactoryKL
As one of the leading technical consulting and planning companies, Metroplan GmbH designs comprehensive solutions for production and logistics locations.

INCOM: Humans in production
How can humans and production work together smoothly? SmartFactoryKL employees presented latest solutions in their paper held at INCOM.

Expansion of relations to the USA
Establish a stronger relationship to Smart Manufacturing pioneers in North America: That was the goal of Prof. Zühlke during the Manufacturing Leadership (ML) Summit and

New White Paper: Safety in modular Machines
This white paper describes a concept for the automatic certification of Industry 4.0 production modules. It was presented at Hannover Messe this week for the

Haier announces opening of research office in Kaiserslautern
The Chinese company Haier is expanding its cooperation with SmartFactoryKL and announced the opening of a research office in Kaiserslautern in a ceremony at Hannover

HM18 Live: Top-ranking vistors at the SmartFactoryKL booth
On the second day of Hannover Messe, the SmartFactoryKL team welcomed several top-ranked politicians from the German Federal and State Governments.

HM18 Live: An opening to the systems
Speaking at the “Industrie 4.0 meets the Industrial Internet Forum,” Prof. Dr. Martin Ruskowski, head of the Innovative Factory Systems department at the German Research

HM18 Live: Interview with the Head of SmartFactoryKL Zühlke
In an interview with Nuremberg Tech, Prof. Zühlke talked about his vision, the challenges with the topic of Smart Factory and the role of humans

Humans and machines work side by side: Using AI and AR
Artificial Intelligence as our friend: The partner consortium of the SmartFactoryKL Industrie 4.0 production plant demonstrates how to implement AI as a partner for people in

Doosan Machine Tools joined SmartFactoryKL
Doosan Machine Tools from Korea is the first machine tools company to become a member of SmartFactoryKL.

RAPA new member of SmartFactoryKL
Rausch & Pausch GmbH (RAPA), joined SmartFactoryKL as the latest member. With its headquarters in the Upper Franconian Selb, the company is among the world’s

#N8dWs – Large interest in SmartFactoryKL
SmartFactoryKL took part in “Research Night” („Nacht, die Wissen schafft”) in Kaiserslautern on April 13, 2018. More than 200 guests took the opprtunity to visit

Data usage made smart: Intelligent supply infrastructure moves closer to the modules
SmartFactoryKL will exhibit expanded infrastructure functions at the Hannover Messe: Measurements moved from infrastructure box to edge devices.

Networked clouds in a production setting
How can data be evaluated and interpreted in its entirety in a cloud? At Hannover Messe, SmartFactoryKL and partners will demonstrate a solution when the

„Experience Industrie 4.0“ Campaign with German blogger „Ingenieurversteher”
How do industry and research work together and develop Industrie 4.0 concepts as implemented in the SmartFactoryKL production plant? The campaign „Experience Industrie 4.0“, which will

Modular safety concept increases flexibility in plant conversion
How can production plants be safely and flexibly converted in terms of “plug & produce”? The answer is: with the help of an advanced modular

5G Technology for industrial use
SmartFactoryKL demonstrates the use of 5G at Hannover Messe and offers visitors to experience the benefits in the descriptive use case “Quality assurance during transport”.

AI in Production: Livestream
Prof. Dr. Martin Ruskowski, Head of DFKI Innovative Factory Systems Research Department, and technology reporter Robert Weber spoke about the topic “Artificial Intelligence in Production”

Simple in the Cloud: The digitalization of brownfield systems made easy
SmartFactoryKL demonstrates vertical integration using edge devices at Hannover Messe 2018.

Best Paper Award received
At the 11th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services, and Technologies (UBICOMM) in November 2017, SmartFactoryKL offered a special track on “Edge computing