Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA

DigITools for Manufacturing

“DigiTools for Manufacturing” bundles core competencies from different departments in consideration of requirements for Industrie-4.0. The system solutions developed here are supplied both to SMEs as well as large concerns in various sectors of the market by the five business units of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. In this way, Fraunhofer IPA is responding to increasing research and development demands related to the future issue of Industrie 4.0.

 

Methods for implementing digital production

Fraunhofer IPA identifies suitable Industrie 4.0 use cases, develops technological solutions and implements digital production with you.

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Cloud-Platforms

Cloud technologies offer enormous potentials to cut IT costs and optimize production processes.

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Manufacturing Systems

IT systems form the link between the manufacturing system and the business process. In the era of Industrie 4.0, manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly modular. This contributes to transparency, flexibility and optimization of manufacturing infrastructures with regard to time, costs and quality irrespective of the quantities produced.

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Software Development Process

The development of high-quality, secure and cost-effective software and hardware for an existing IT environment calls for dynamic development processes and tools, which also have to meet specific project requirements.

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Reference Projects

Matrix production in flow at the Siemens AG plant in Karlsruhe
EASI: Cloud-based, real-time data analysis through simulation and iteration
IT Architecture for digital manufacturing at EJOT
Simulation Game Industrie 4.0 at Trumpf
New evaluation model detects productivity potentials between 6 and 10 percent through cycle time reduction of Freudenberg machines
Digital Innovation Hubs boosting European Microelectronics Industry (DIATOMIC)
Increase in OEE of 10% for existing systems at SCHOTT