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Orientation and research focus
- Designing digital twins as assistance systems, taking into account financial aspects, in particular working capital
- Automated generation of algorithms using large-language models (e.g. in an intralogistics context)
- Analysis of the potential of autonomous transport systems for mapping supply chain processes across company boundaries, with special consideration of digital twins for simulating the main flows of the supply chain
- Use and implementation of key technologies to build and maintain inter-organizational trust in industrial value networks
Research projects
News from the research area
01/14/2025
Half-time milestone reached!
Our FlexTools project has successfully reached the half-time milestone!
10/23/2024
Building block kit for the introduction of flexible mobile robotics
Our publication "Bausteinkasten zur Einführung flexibler mobiler Robotik" was published in the Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb!
09/23/2024
FlexTools at the FTS symposium
The AGV symposium takes place every two years and has now been a tradition for over 30 years. During this time, it has developed into the industry…
09/23/2024
FlexTools at the Open House Day at Fraunhofer IML
On Open House Day, the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics invited visitors to take a look behind the scenes of applied logistics…
09/08/2024
Max Disselnmeyer presents research results at the ICCL, Mexico
The presented paper addresses key challenges in the introduction of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) into the logistics processes of small and…
08/13/2024
Design Thinking Workshop (I): Introduction and planning of AMRs
We can look back on a successful design thinking workshop that recently took place as part of our FlexTools research project. With a focus on the…
08/12/2024
1st consortium meeting of the FlexTools project at ProLog Automation GmbH & Co. KG in Freiberg am Neckar
The consortium meeting on 15.05.2024, to mark the completion of the first milestone of the FlexTools project, was a complete success. A joint dinner…
05/13/2024
Future investments by vehicle manufacturers and the supplier industry
Our FlexTools project is also part of the BMWK economic stimulus package 35c module a2, which focuses on 'future investments by vehicle manufacturers…
11/06/2023
TE Connectivity requirements workshop
The second plant meeting of the entire FlexTools network team took place on November 6, 2013 at TE Connectivity in Wört. Here, too, the relevant…
