Focus Topic: System Integration
Fraunhofer IPK
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Smart system integration is the edge that manufacturing companies need in today's competitive world. This issue of FUTUR magazine highlights several research-based ways to achieve it.
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Integrating Systems
System integration is key to help manufacturing companies remain competitive in high-wage countries and defend their market leadership – so how can it be achieved?
?Innovations on All Levels
From the smallest start-up to entire nations – anyone who wants to survive in today’s fast-paced, globalized market structures needs a carefully thought-out, resilient strategy.
?Decentralized Yet Integrated
Products and services have had a complicated love story. Can decentralized data spaces give their relationship the room it needs to grow?
?The Data Conductors
Technologically challenging, strategically essential: To orchestrate complex development and production processes, companies have to integrate various IT systems and their data.
?Consistent Data – Better Processes
In today’s production systems, even small changes are often time-consuming, costly and susceptible to errors. The story changes when development, planning, commissioning and production are integrated and understood together.
A Space to Promote a Transformation in Mobility
The ReTraNetz-BB real-world laboratory supports the local vehicle and supplier industry’s turnaround. Process chains are tested here and technologies are transferred into real-life scenarios.
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Identity-Establishing Work
ID card, passport or driver’s license – adults in Germany carry at least one of these documents with them every day. In his FUTUR guest article, Dr. Florian Heitmüller from Bundesdruckerei GmbH explains how they are produced.
?Digitalization Is an Enabler, Not an End in Itself
宝马 and Fraunhofer IPK are regular collaborators – whether it is research on the use of cobots in assembly or on digital product twins to reduce emissions, holistic approaches for the production of tomorrow are developed through joint efforts. FUTUR interviewed Dr. Milan Nedeljkovi?, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Production, about his vision of what this future will look like and how we will get there.
?No More by the Book – Flexible Manufacturing
A growing number of variants, more complex components, increasingly individualized products and the resulting reduction in batch sizes are challenging manufacturing companies. In order to keep up, they must be able to adapt their production flexibly.
Great Machines Think Alike
Not unlike a professional soccer team, the different players in a production system must work together perfectly. That is why the Fraunhofer flagship project EMOTION researches empathetic technical systems.
?The X-Factor
From Gaia-X to Manufacturing-X – digital ecosystems aim to enable effective and secure data exchange between industry players. Ernst St?ckl-Pukall, head of the department ?Digitalization, Industry 4.0? at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), and Fraunhofer IPK experts Prof. Dr. Holger Kohl and Dr. Kai Lindow discuss the benefits for companies in a conversation with FUTUR.
Models for Modular Assembly
If you want to innovate production in a more holistic and cooperative way, integrating models are the way to go.
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