The Magazine of the Production Technology Center Berlin

 

Research and Development

No More by the Book – Flexible Manufacturing

Our photo story shows how the digital networking of all individual systems in the production process enables flexible manufacturing.

 

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Current Issue FUTUR 2/2024: System Integration

 

Research and Development

Great Machines Think Alike

Not unlike a football team, the different players in a production system must work together perfectly. The Fraunhofer lighthouse project EMOTION researches empathetic technical systems.

 

Interview

Digitalization Is an Enabler, Not an End in Itself

Dr. Milan Nedeljković, Member of the Board of Management of BMW, Production, explains what the production of tomorrow will look like and how we will get there.

 

Research and Development

Decentralized Yet Integrated

Products and services have had a complicated love story. Can decentralized data spaces give their relationship the room it needs to grow?

 

Research and Development

Models for Modular Assembly

If you want to innovate production in a more holistic and cooperative way, integrating models are the way to go.

 

Expert Panel

The X-Factor

From Gaia-X to Manufacturing-X – digital ecosystems should enable effective and secure data exchange in industry: Ernst Stöckl-Pukall from BMWK talks to two Fraunhofer IPK experts.

 

Research and Development

The Data Conductors

Technologically challenging, strategically essential: To orchestrate complex development and production processes, companies have to integrate various IT systems and their data.

 

Lab Portrait

A Space to Promote a Transformation in Mobility

The ReTraNetz-BB real-world laboratory supports the local vehicle and supplier industry‘s turnaround.

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