Sustainable & flexible Manufacturing Systems
The primary goals in manufacturing industry are maximum product quality, throughput, and efficiency. A great challenge of the upcoming decades comprises an ever-growing governmental and societal demand for sustainability as well as minimising scrap, reusing it, and recycling end-of-life products.
Optimal manufacturing systems typically consist of a multitude of process steps which must work together perfectly and are coupled together by material flow. To cope with the complexity incorporated in the material characteristics, hierarchical control strategies for machine and process variables are applied typically to obtain desired product properties, which are not directly controlled. Our approach enhances this traditional strategy by closing the control loop with respect to the product properties, enabling (semi-)autonomous manufacturing.
Building on more than 10 years of experience and collaborations with the leading companies in the metal industry, we provide know-how on industrial-grade, real-time-capable communication systems in the context of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for plant manufacturers as well as plant operators. Additionally, we offer expertise in the design of advanced control solutions for machine and process variables as well as product quality.
Fields of application
- Heat treatment of metal products
- Metal forming
- Injection moulding
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