The project aim is to develop a highly modular system which connects and interacts cross-vendor components. An architecture that is based on microservices and the clustering of these cellsThe goal shall be implemented. Achieving this objective, innovative and industry 4.0 compliant, real-time capable and event-driven communication technologies have to be selected and integrated. 

These approaches tend to make the system inconsistent and vulnerable. To counteract this, technologies must be integrated that make the system robust and reliable and protect against cyberattacks. For the mutual cross-vendor integration of components a close cooperation with our partners is necessary and also a standardization of the results. 

Häcker Automation will demonstrate prototypically that newly developed production processes can run on different production plants with components from our partners. 

 

Factsheet:

01.03.2017 – 29.02.2020 (3 years) 

funding authority/ funding programme 

Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)
Förderprogramm PAiCE

project executing organisation 

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)

cooperation partners 

• 3S Smart Software Solutions GmbH 
• afag Automation AG 
• ASYS Automationssysteme GmbH 
• elrest Automationssysteme GmbH 
• eps GmbH 
• Festo AG & Co. KG 
• fortiss GmbH 
• Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH 
• inIT – Institut für industrielle Informationstechnik, HS OWL 
• ISW – Institut für Steuerungstechnik der Werkzeugmaschinen, Universität Stuttgart 
• NewTec GmbH 
• Softing Industrial Automation GmbH 
• TBK GmbH 

contact 

Dipl.-Inf. Ulf Böttner-Common 

SENSE4TOOL 

short description 

Tooling machines do not have sufficient intelligence for consistently autonomous production. Process control is required for autonomous production, but there are no suitable embedded sensor systems. 
Current process monitoring systems often consist of several components, are hardly to integrate into the machine, not real-time capable and expensive. The aim of the project is to increase the intelligence of tooling machines by integrating an embedded multi-sensor system in the tool holder trough: 

Miniaturisation, because of consistent use of 3D electronics 

Autonomous, because of wireless energy transfer to the tool holder 

Decentralization, because of automated signal analysis at the point of origin 

A integrated data processing in the tool holder which directly generates process information for the machine. The system lays the foundation for process monitoring and control in an intelligent tooling machine. 
 

Factsheet:

duration 
01.03.2015 – 28.02.2018 (3 years) 

 

funding authority / funding programme 

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

cooperation partners 

• Fraunhofer IPT 
• Mapal Dr. Kress KG 
• EDC Electronic Design Chemnitz GmbH 
• Montronix GmbH 
• Chiro-Werke GmbH und Co. KG 

contact 
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Schiek

The StarJet technology developed as part of this collaborative project at the Institute of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg will be optimized as a method for electrical contacting. The joint development work will tailor this non-contact, digital and flexible process to the requirements of microelectronics and smart system integration. In order to bring the StarJet technology from the laboratory stage into industrial environments, the optimization of the user-friendliness and the robustness is another essential part of this project. 

 

Factsheet:

duration 
01.11.2016 – 31.10.2018 (2 years) 

 

funding authority / funding programme 

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT / PTKA-PFT)

funding executing organisation 

KMU-innovative Produktionsforschung
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

cooperation partners 

• arteos GmbH (Projektleitung) 
• BioFluidix GmbH 
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, IMTEK 
• QuaRisMa GmbH 

Contact

Dr.-Ing. Max Körner

The BMBF-funded project serves to create integrated software tools for the development, design and operation of micro assembly systems. The aim is to develop a description system for micro-assembly tasks, which is followed by a requirement specification generator. Based on these tools, further tools will be developed, which include, for example, a plant configurator and a capacity planning portal. The interdisciplinary cooperation of the partners creates a unique tool for the description and intensified and, above all, networked use of the far-reaching potential of modular system concepts in microassembly. 

 

Factsheet:

duration 
01.01.2017 – 31.12.2019 (3 years) 

 

project execcuting organisation 

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT / PTKA-PFT)

funding authority / funding programme 

 

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)  

cooperation partners

• Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V.
• Actiworks Product Solutions GmbH Actiworks Applications Solutions GmbH 
• Dr. Prautsch + Partner 
• PPI-Informatik 
• Hengstler GmbH 
• LEA Medizintechnik GmbH 
• SCHÖLLY FIBEROPTIC GmbH 

contact 

Dr.-Ing. Max Körner