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Social aspects must not be forgotten
By Matthias Werny | Union for Mining, Chemicals and Energy Industries (IG BCE) – Digitalised and networked production will have more and more impact on our daily lives. Jobs and working conditions will change. The question is how politics, science, business and society will handle this change: will they only react to what is coming, will they take it passively and just bear the consequences? »
Companies
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Transfer projects bring people and technology together
By Silke Bruns | Freelance editor – People and technology work as a team in the social networked industry. In three transfer projects at the Innovationlab, companies have now been able to sound out what this looks like in practice. These have shown that employees' acceptance of digital assistants is high – and the efficiency gain for the company is also high. »
Discover the future of
logistics interactively
From adaptive workstations to virtual employee training, from drone swarms to FTS robots: more than 20 innovative demonstrators in the research and application center of the Innovation Lab give a unique impression of the digital transformation in logistics.
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Logistics on the couch? Cognitive ergonomics shaping human-technology interaction
By Dr. Veronika Kretschmer | Fraunhofer IML – The employee-friendly design of Industry 4.0 systems is becoming more and more important for the success of digitisation (not only) in logistics. Currently, making improvements to the effectiveness and efficiency of human-technology systems is particularly in focus for so-called cognitive ergonomics. »
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Research live: From the lab to the »working worlds of the future«
By Carina Tüllmann | Fraunhofer IML – The Innovationlab is taking part in many activities during the Year of Science 2018 as there are various connecting points. The researchers place great emphasis on bringing »the working worlds of the future« for logis-tics and production, which have been developed »in the lab«, to the people and on entering into dialogue with them. »
From Research
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More acceptance for new technologies with »Workplace Innovation«
By Steven Dondt et. al. | TNO – The Dutch logistics sector is regarded as being extremely productive and innovative, yet it faces major challenges. For some years now, massive investments have been made in technology programs. As an approach to the successful introduction of new technologies, the so-called »Workplace Innovation« is recommended. »
Companies
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The more flexible the processes, the more flexible the organisation
By Andreas Nettsträter | Fraunhofer IML – Digital solutions for the purpose of work organization help to design this new form of cooperation between humans and technology in the social networked industry to be as uncomplicated and natural as possible for the staff. The focus is on developing an »intelligent shelf« that communicates with people and recognizes their stress level. »
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Change in value creation: In search of business model 4.0
By Ellen Sünkeler | Fraunhofer IML – Companies can only tap the full potential of digitization if they provide innovative digital products and services with new, valuable business models. »
Briefly informed
Smart Device with plenty of horsepower
Digital technologies can open up considerable potential for optimising urban logistics. Current research for the Innovation Laboratory’s Transport use case ...Sustainably good: The pick-up station of the future
The Innovation Laboratory’s talent workshop gives students the opportunity to implement some very diverse projects. The result of the first …
Technology Experience Series on Man-Machine Interaction in Brussels
There is a lot of buzz about disruptive aspects of advanced automation and robotics in labour, especially industrial work. However, …International exchange: »Data Sovereignty« is also important for »Social Networks«
»Data exchange and interoperability are a central requirement for Industry 4.0. At the same time, the question of data control …
Research Centre
In the research centre at the Innovationlab, new methods and technologies are tested in experiments e. g. in the field of localisation and wireless communication.
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Application centre
In the application centre new methods and technologies can be demonstrated realistically in a model environment.
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