Forschungsagenda Industrie 4.0

Norbert Gronau

Chair Holder

The Center for Industry 4.0

Vision Industry 4.0

When workpieces communicate independently with the machine and, if necessary, arrange for repairs or re-order material themselves, then we are talking about Industry 4.0. The new possibilities offered by digitization represent a fundamental competitive factor for future-oriented companies in all industries. At the same time, the fourth industrial revolution is characterized by a multitude of technical innovations, which, not least, have a massive impact on the working…

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Sander Lass

Academic staff

Cyber-physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems as the basis of the 4th industrial revolution.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) play an important role for Industry 4.0. These are digitised products equipped with sensors, actuators, data processing and connectivity, whose components generate a continuous data stream. The use of cyber-physical systems in machines and facilities makes it possible to increase their use for facillitie and process monitoring, self-optimisation, configuration and process control. This…

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Benedict Bender

Academic staff

IoT,IIoT, digital twin

Smart Service World: Internet-based services for the economy

More and more infrastructures, machines and objects are equipped with intelligent functions and networked through the Internet. The Internet of Things refers to the global networking of various objects. In addition to data exchange, networking enables the realisation of cooperative value-added processes across physical distances and the creation of new business fields for companies in all sectors. This is often linked to changes…

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IT-Security in the factory

IT security in times of digitalisation

The networking of production represents a key future opportunity for digitisation. However, in order to implement the intelligent factory, it is necessary to network the machines with the Internet. As a result, the increasing threat posed to IT systems by cyber attacks is automatically transferred to industrial facilities. Data protection, IT and information security therefore represent a firmly established industrial and social value. They are…

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Learning Factory

Extended qualification as a success factor for industry 4.0

The integration of IT in the production process that goes hand in hand with Industry 4.0 means massive changes in the work content and an expansion of the qualification profiles of skilled workers in the companies. Successful qualification for Industry 4.0 cannot be achieved solely through traditional training and further training formats such as face-to-face events. Rather, it is dependent on new application formats which address…

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Marcus Grum

Chair Holder

Innovative human-machine interaction

In an Industry 4.0 environment, communication becomes increasingly opaque and complex. In a broad stream of data and a tightly mixed network of communication channels, communication processes are difficult to trace. Since degrees of freedom for decision-making are more diverse and partly taken over by autonomous machines and cyber-physical systems, overlap-free and contradictory knowledge bases are no longer guaranteed. What is an autonomous machine…

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Discover potentials and properly use industry 4.0

The vision of the Smart Factory

The vision of Industry 4.0 describes intelligent factories ("Smart Factory"), which exchange data internally and across companies with strongly networked production systems and collaborate flexibly in value-added networks. Essential elements of the Smart Factory are embedded systems with local information processing and their extensive networking with each other and with the Internet. But especially for many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) it…

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