Learning Factory / Pilot-Factory Industrie 4.0, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Scientific Leads
Operational Status
- Q3/2016: Two national research and infrastructure projects with the total funding of € 4 M provided by the Austrian Research Agency (FFG project No. 852105 & FFG project No. 852103) have been started
- May 2017: Completion of the initiation and setting-up phase
- December 2017: Total IT and process integration as well as development of a flexible planning and control architecture for orchestration of decentralized production and assembly cells
- Currently offering 3 training programs for students and professionals in the context of Learning Factory (LF) namely
- Integrative Product Creation – Theoretical and Practical Parts
- DigiTrans 4.0 - Course on the integration of business IT and production IT
- Cyber Physical Work Systems in cooperation with TÜV Austria Academy
- Currently offering 6th course “Learning to Increase Productivity” as well as seminars and students theses in the context of Learning Factory (LF)
- Number of training days for the courses given in the learning factory: 22 Days including lecture and exercise, excluding examination
- Number of FTE for the learning factory: 3 Professors, 3 Senior researchers and 1 Technician
- More insights into the current activities, including Open Lab Days, at the TU Wien Pilot Factory Industry 4.0
Latest developments
- Reconfigurable, adaptive and smart production systems
- Human-oriented cyber-physical assembly and logistics systems
- Smart Data Analytics
- Cyber-physical production systems
- Cloud engine for process automation
- CNC Tool Lifecycle
Topics for research and training
- Development and use-case-related implementation of methods and concepts for process pvent management in assembly
- Planning and evaluation of Digital and Visual Assistance Systems
- Planning and evaluation of Collaborative Human Robotic Systems
- Integrated safety and security concept for Collaborative Human Robotic Systems in cooperation with TÜV Austria
- MMAssist II: Development of modular and reusable digital and technical assistance systems in production, assembly and logistics
- Research collaboration on Smart Data Analytics for
- Prescriptive amd Predictive Maintenance
- Production Planning and Controlling
- Complex Event Processing
- Intralogistics
- Smart automation of industrial grade manufacturing cells
- Cloud-based automation for atomic machine functions
- Simulation and virtualization of manufacturing cells
- Knowledge- and function-based modeling in OPC UA
- Safety concepts for flexible manufacturing systems with AGV pallet handling
- MES layer integration for automated manufacturing
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