In order to contain the outbreak the comprehensive diagnosis of infections is crucial in pandemics in general and in the COVID-19 pandemic in particular. A decisive contribution to better recording of COVID-19 infections is therefore the increased use of diagnostic tests. However, sample preparation...

Prof. Dr. Yu-Ting Tsai from Feng Chia University (Taichung, Taiwan) is staying at the Institute of Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) for a 5-month research visit and continued international research support afterward. Feng Chia University is a partner university of the Friedrich-Alexa...

The publication "A system for human-in-the-loop simulation of industrial collaborative robot applications" by Maximilian Metzner, Daniel Utsch, Matthias Walter, Christian Hofstetter, Dr.-Ing. Christina Ramer, Andreas Blank and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franke was awarded the Best Application Paper Award at the...

In the series FAU aktuell the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg features significant news on science, research and teaching. In August Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke, Head of the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) was asked about the main results of the rese...

The research and development network for 'Hybrid Systems with Printed Electronics' (Hidronik) has been launched in July under the coordination of ENERGIEregion Nürnberg e.V. The network offers small and medium-sized companies the opportunity to develop innovative products, materials and processes in...

Industry 4.0 is accompanied by a variety of technologies that offer great potential for tomorrow’s electric motor production. In particular, data-driven approaches applying methods of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly coming into focus. So far, however, only a few scientific works have d...

For the chair FAPS the HoloLens 2 - Immersive Mixed-Reality-Smartglasses - from Microsoft could be procured. The HoloLens 2 is suitable for immersive, professional, industrial applications and offers a comfortable (weight of 566 g) mixed reality experience with industry-leading solutions that add va...

The new event format clusterimpuls of the Cluster Mechatronik & Automation in cooperation with infoteam Software AG took place for the first time on July 21, 2020. The event focused on sustainable competitiveness during and after the corona pandemic in the sector of mechanical and plant engineer...

Every year the European Six Sigma Club Germany e.V. (ESSC-D) awards scientific papers that deal with the application and further development of the Six Sigma methodology with the German Six Sigma Prize. This year the gold award goes to Franziska Schäfer for using the DMAIC cycle to develop a data-ba...