Manufacturing
Thanks to an efficient middle class, the industrial production in Germany represents a central part of the national added value. New requirements constantly challenge the innovative strength and flexibility of companies. These changes in a globalized world require increased digitization efforts, especially on the part of SMEs, in order to maintain or even expand their position.
The transformation of traditional production systems and processes through digitization pursues many different goals. Examples include increasing the efficiency of individual processes or production steps of a production line or the efficient interaction of different individual systems, as well as optimizing availability through predictive maintenance or improving quality through error detection in workpiece production.
The share of information and communication technologies in innovations is constantly increasing. Data about products and production must be collected and processed. Analyses of this data - e.g. using artificial intelligence - automatically lead to changes in processes. Last but not least, people must continue to be integrated into production in such a way that they can fully develop their strengths.
OFFIS as designer
Our institute's broad spectrum of ICT expertise has already provided a wide range of answers to questions relating to industrial production in the past. We are currently experiencing increasing demand from companies that are constantly facing new challenges. The production division of OFFIS deals with the manifold research questions that arise from the increasing introduction of digitization into industrial production. OFFIS will thus transfer the acquired ICT competences for industry 4.0 from practice-oriented research into the economy so that it can actively participate in shaping the digital transformation.
Concrete applications
We have classified our concrete applications of the division Manufacturing's ICT-Research and -Development in the following R&D-Groups:
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Dr. rer. nat. Frank Oppenheimer
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2024
Digital Twins: Enhancing Circular Economy through Digital Tools
Pehlken, A., Davila, M.F., Dawel, L., Meyer, O.; 05 / 2024
Embracing Heterogeneity -- Using IEC 61499 to tailor your distributed control system for development efficiency, processing speed, compute power, and legacy compatibility
Jörg Walter; 29th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA); 09 / 2024
Poster Abstract: Circular Economy Approach for Data Center Components
Fernando Andres Penaherrera Vaca; November / 2024
2023
Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Bremen
Daniel Schneider, Janina Kovacs, Stefan Wiesner, Markus Knak, Michael Teucke, Alexandra Pehlken, Patrick Knocke, Sven MattheisFlorian Borgwardt, Quynh Duong Phuong; September / 2023
VALI-CPPS -- Verification And Large-scale Integration for Cyber-Physical Production Systems
Jörg Walter; ENHANCE Workshop (Bridging Communities Workshop Series) at HiPEAC'23; 01 / 2023
2022
Metric Based Dynamic Control Charts for Edge Anomaly Detection in Factory Logistics
Patrick Eschemann and Philipp Borchers and Dennis Lisiecki and Jan Elmar Krauskopf; Journal of Physics: Conference Series; oct / 2022
The application of image recognition methods to improve the performance of waste-to-energy plants
Fenja Schwark, Henriette Garmatter, Maria Davila, Lisa Dawel, Alexandra Pehlken, Fabian Cyris, Roland Scharf; EnviroInfo 2022; 09 / 2022
2021
AI enabled bio waste contamination-scanner
Stahl, F. , Ferdinand, O., Nolle, L., Pehlken, A. and Zielinski, O.; 41. SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence; 12 / 2021
Less is more! Support of Parallel and Time-critical Assembly Tasks with Augmented Reality
Illing, Jannike and Klinke, Philipp and Pfingsthorn, Max and Heuten, Wilko; Mensch und Computer 2021; September / 2021
No more flat tires: Overcoming data defects to achieve supply chain resilience
Alexandra Pehlken, Sabine Baumann; IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) 2021; June / 2021
