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IndustryArena is the biggest community in the manufacturing industry with over 500,000 members and reports about the latest topics and trends in this field. That’s why it published an article about the research activities at FAPS about the optimization of production systems with quantum computing in the project TAQO-PAM which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project partners are OTH Regensburg, Siemens AG, BMW AG, science + computing AG und OptWare GmbH as well as Universität Passau as an associated partner.

The full article can be found here: https://de.industryarena.com/uni-erlangen-faps/blog/taqo-pam-massgeschneiderte-quantenoptimierung-zur-planung-und-steuerung-industrieller-fertigung–19035.html

Effects of the Corona pandemic are reaching ever deeper into the leisure time of the unvaccinated. The effects on the workplace in industry are still unclear – BDI President and FAU professor Siegfried Russwurm has a clear opinion on the matter, which he has also expressed in the press.
The Corona pandemic is still on our minds. New regulations have just been passed in various German Länder, which primarily affect the leisure sector. Here – primarily to protect the unvaccinated and to counteract overcrowding in intensive care units – 3G+ and 2G are being introduced.
What impact the rising infection numbers will have on industry and the workplace has yet to be determined. “People have to be able to work together, have to be able to realize things with each other, and that doesn’t really work well with a mask and 1.5 distance,” said BDI President Siegfried Russwurm, during an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk. “It simply has to be possible to be vaccinated, for anyone and everyone who is willing!”
Editor and camera and sound staff from the regional studio in Nuremberg recorded the interview for ARD’s Tagesthemen in the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2021, in the laboratory hall of the FAPS chair in Erlangen. The environment between the industrial plants, the industrial robot cells and the automated guided vehicles is perfectly suited as a scenery for the interview of the BDI president. Prof. Russwurm used the break of his lecture “The Machine Tool as a Mechatronic System” for his statement. “It is not easy to switch between the topics and the setting, but as a representant of the industry it is necessary to react flexibly to requests and demands, e.g. from the press,” said Prof. Russwurm.
Directly after the interview, he started the second part of the lecture and took the students on a journey into the sensor technology in machine tools – and not just theoretically, but vividly using a small machine tool from his own garage.

The Tagesthemen of 2021-11-03 with the contribution of Prof. Russwurm can be accessed in the ARD-Mediathek.

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 research project Green Factory Bavaria.

In this research project twelve research institutions and over one hundred companies jointly pursued the goal of minimizing the consumption of resources in production.

The full interview can be read here (only available in German).

In cooperation with the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS), the Siemens-Healthcare GmbH is developing a digital twin of factory performance in the technology center for “power and vacuum products” using innovative software solutions.

Please find the full article here.