University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Department of Design, Production and Management
Operational Status
- approx. 10 FTE involved to support education and research plus student assistants
- supported by team of technicians
- different technological and methodological building blocks with related infrastructures, e.g. the “Hangar” and the Virtual Reality/Smart Industry Lab
- combination of physical infrastructure and digital methods and tools in the sense of cyber-physical systems/digital twins, consideration of both product design and production engineering
- strongly used for education of students and as research platform for developing, prototyping/testing and demonstrating of innovative solutions
Latest developments
- addition of real time locations system(s) to track objects in the factory environment
- extension of energy monitoring
- development of virtual and augmented reality applications
- planning and start of construction for new infrastructure to be opened in 2022
Topics for research and training
- Planning and operation of manufacturing systems and factories
- Digital methods and tools in product and production engineering
- Collaborative design methods
- Manufacturing technologies, e.g. additive manufacturing
- Flexible manufacturing concepts
- Sustainability in manufacturing
- Human machine interaction and human-robot collaboration
- Innovative learning formats
