10/Meeting the Future

Theme:
Factory of the Future

Motto:
Digitalization - Visualization – Virtualization.
From virtual world to real production.

Realization:
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), Stuttgart

Markus Mersinger of Fraunhofer Institute Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) from Stuttgart presents the workstation of the future and explains to us the vision of the remote controlled factory

Andreas Weimer demonstrates the controlling of a manufacturing process via ISDN connection. First a letter or any other graphical element can be placed on a virtual workpiece and afterwards the data is transferred to the company Hueller Hille GmbH. On the live display the user gets the ability to supervise the real production process, how the plate is milled in Ludwigsburg.

Mr Mersinger presents the result: The EXPO 2000 writing milled into an aluminum plate. This example shows, how simply through the new user interface the transformation ability of production processes can be controlled.

In the remote controlled " factory of the future " product and process optimization are facilitated over a virtual simulation of the job. Modifications of the process can be simulated and tested by the data base of the 3D simulation beforehand and then transferred to reality.

Contact:
Markus Mersinger 
E-mail: mersinger@ipa.fhg.de
Nobelstr. 12  
D-70569 Stuttgart
Tel: +49-711/970-1206 
Fax: +49-711/970-1005
Internet: www.ipa.fhg.de/