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How can value chains, companies and entire economies be made crisis-proof? In the white paper »RESYST«, 17 Fraunhofer institutes present factors and conditions for resilience and provide practical recommendations for action. In doing so, they demonstrate that sustainable resilience measures enable organizations to remain innovative and successful even in crisis situations.

With a digital kick-off event on November 29 and 30, 2021, the BMBF-funded INVITE program for vocational training innovations has started. Fraunhofer IPK is contributing a project on AI-supported learning path design.

Guidelines for knowledge management specifically tailored to SMEs − that is the aim of DIN SPEC 91443 "Systematic knowledge management for SMEs − Tools and procedures". Fraunhofer IPK's scientific staff participated in drafting the document.

With an online survey, Fraunhofer IPK would like to capture current challenges in systematic problem solving in manufacturing companies. The focus is on problems of unknown cause that cannot be solved immediately and for which various procedures have been established in practice.

An online survey by Fraunhofer IPK in cooperation with EPIC (Centre of Excellence in Production Informatics and Control) aims to determine the impact of COVID-19 on industrial production. Its focus: »How can digitization help to mitigate these effects?«

Fraunhofer Reinigung conducts a new market and trend analysis of cleaning processes in production.

Last Friday saw the the first broadcast of a virtual salon discussion in a joint new series of the Austrian Embassy and Fraunhofer IPK.

A new type of plastic made of reclaimed waste readily degrades in less than a year. It can be produced on an industrial scale in a new process developed by the Fraunhofer IPK and its partners.

An app enables individual components with no barcode to be unambiguously identified within seconds. The potential of neural networks will benefit particularly logistics companies, which can use them to speed up their incoming goods processes.

Czech Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček and his delegation discussed possible German-Czech cooperation in the field of automation during their visit at Fraunhofer IPK in Berlin.