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The Lab for Energy Efficiency makes solutions hands-on and tangible.

Manufacturing companies must save energy. The new EnEffReg technology can automatically optimize plant operations, thanks to its smart control technology.

From wearable robotics to virtual reality, people and machines are collaborating in more and more ways. In the process, the real and digital worlds are merging.

Faster from idea to prototype: The enVAR software accurately translates designs into virtual environments, enabling better collaboration within teams.

Virtual commissioning makes it significantly simpler to integrate new equipment into a manufacturing environment. The simulation becomes even clearer through the use of virtual reality technologies.

Not unlike a professional soccer team, the different players in a production system must work together perfectly. That is why the Fraunhofer flagship project EMOTION researches empathetic technical systems.

Cold spray is considered one of the most modern processes in the field of thermal spraying. A research cooperation has recently equipped Fraunhofer IPK and IWF of TU Berlin with access to a state-of-the-art cold spray manufacturing system.

The members of this panel discussion are working together with other partners – including research institutions, corporations and start-ups – on the biological transformation of industrial manufacturing in the large-scale project »BioFusion 4.0«. Read their thoughts about how environmental impacts are operationalized and measured in the project and how people can be made aware of the issue .

The mobility of the future is already being powered by a variety of drive technologies. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. Kurt Blumenröder, CEO of T-Cell AG, Dr. Rüdiger Schwarz, Head of Strategic Communication PtX Projects at EDL Anlagenbau, and Prof. Dr. Dr. Eckart Uhlmann and Prof. Dr. Julian Polte from Fraunhofer IPK discuss which technology will ultimately win the race.

Current headlines on the automotive industry in Germany are mostly a cause for headaches. Meanwhile, experts at Fraunhofer IPK are paving the way out of the crisis.