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The infrastructure is open to TU Graz students of various fields of study as well as to non-university educational institutions with subject-specific focuses. The is not only an experimental laboratory for industrial companies and SMEs and their industrial developments and innovative ideas, it is also used for education and training.

#Learning factory robots software

A special software package ensures data security by detecting deviations from the usual data streams and triggering an alarm. This enables fast, high-volume transmission capacity between the many internet-based applications. In order to remain competitive, such concepts are increasingly required and must become reality in production.įurthermore, the 300-square-meter factory is equipped with a campus-owned 5G network. New production lines can be set up quickly via the prototypes of universal units to manufacture new products for rapidly changing markets in short response times. The infrastructural highlights include mobile, self-sufficient workstations that demonstrate how agile production processes can be physically implemented. With Siemens and incubedIT, for example, the dynamic localization of production stations was successfully demonstrated with T-Systems, a zone model was set up that protects against unauthorized data intrusion and with proAlpha, data integration of customer requests could be channelled through to the production units for the first time in Austria. Together with TU Graz researchers, the companies have already conducted initial preliminary tests in the smart real lab. Among the twenty project partners involved in the set-up are domestic key players such as Siemens, T-Systems, Magenta Telekom, proALPHA, B&R, Magna, Zoller, Tagnology and the Know Center (the complete list of project partners can be found at the end of the article). A number of industrial companies also supported the project financially and with man-hours.

Support from domestic politics, business and industryįunding to the amount of 4 million euros was provided by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), the Styrian Chamber of Commerce, the State of Styria and the City of Graz.

#Learning factory robots full

The nearly four-year taking construction phase will be completed in April when the research and learning factory will go into full operation, although some research work in the pilot factory was started already earlier.

The head of has been responsible for these installations and drove the project forward, this all together with Franz Haas, the head of the Institute of Production Engineering at TU Graz. 'The entire infrastructure was developed practically from scratch very little was bought from the catalogue,' attests Rudolf Pichler. However, any interested company has got the opportunity to sustainably develop and test new and individual solutions for smart production in this industrial environment. The sought-after research results are open to all sectors and take particular account of small and medium-sized enterprises. Industrial robots from many different manufacturers, state-of-the-art production machines and software solutions for seamless data integration between highly heterogeneous systems for the entire product life cycle, the infrastructure of the research and learning factory at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) encompasses many aspects that are needed for digital production concepts and technologies of the future.