The research sector Automation Technology offers services in the following areas:
Production control and diagnosis
- Consulting for the design of monitoring and diagnostic systems
- Holistic optimization of production systems
Digitisation, plant mapping and information modelling
- Connectivity consulting
- Consulting on the use of OPC UA and related Companion Specifications
- Support in plant engineering with TIA Portal
Smart Services und system integration
- Intelligent energy management
- Migration of services in the cloud
- Support in the implementation of service-oriented architectures in the production environment
Machine Learning in production
- Reinforcement Learning on shopfloor level
Industrial communication
- Support in technology and topology selection for industrial communication
- Analysis and load test for industrial communication networks
- Consulting and support for the introduction of radio-based communication technologies
Cloud-based platforms and business models
- Design and implementation of business model analyses.
- Providing market overviews of current technologies to support decision making
- Methodological development, benchmarking and market analyses for digital platform business models in industry
- Workshops and current research lectures on the topic “From the Sensor to the Cloud“