Experimental and Digital Factory (EDF)

Germany: Saxony

Overview

The Experimental and Digital Factory (EDF), a flexible modular factory and Innovation Laboratory at the Professorship of Factory Planning and Factory Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, represents an important basis for excellent research and development in the field of factory planning and factory operations and logistics.

The EDF is understood as a representation of a "complete mini-factory" with all the essential manufacturing and logistics components of general cargo as well as components whose production planning and control. The immediate interplay between planning and operation enables application-development / adaptation of methods and tools for factory planning and operation as well as the behavioral study of factory and logistics processes and configurations. Research and development priorities include smart factory, industry 4.0, automation (e.g. automated guided vehicles), identification (e.g. RFID/NFC), digital factory, adaptability and energy efficiency/management. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Financial and insurance activities - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities - Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products - Other services activities - Activities of membership organisations - Repair of computers and personal and household goods - Other personal service activities - Other manufacturing - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Technology
Cyber physical systems - Robotics - Internet of things - Mobility & Location based technologies - Interaction technologies - Big data, data analytics, data handling - Virtual, augmented and extended reality - Simulation, modelling and digital twins - Additive manufacturing - Logistics - Internet services - New media technologies
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