Industry 4.0, Digital Factory and Digitalization in Production

In Industry 4.0, machines, plants and production processes are networked with each other. This makes their data available for various applications. Typical fields of application are flexible production, e.g. to optimize machine utilization, convertible factory, e.g. to be able to manufacture individualized products in small quantities at affordable prices, intelligent maintenance, e.g. to avoid unplanned production downtimes. The research area also includes technology assessment, guidance documents, and office efficiency improvement through RPA (Robotic Process Automation).

Within this field of competence we conduct research projects on the following topics:

Concepts for intelligent networking of machines
Information modeling and semantics for industrial machines and processes
Cloud architectures for data storage and processing
RPA - Robotic Process Automation to increase efficiency in the office
5D: 5 Dimension - Digital Technology Assessment Cycle to evaluate digital technologies
Guide to assessing the status of the factory in Industrie 4.0
Data quality as the key to success

These topics also find their way into these lectures: