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Industry 4.0

“Industry 4.0” describes the 4th Industrial Revolution through the introduction of modern information and communication technologies in production. The DFKI is regarded as the decisive founder of this movement. This far-reaching paradigm shift was first publicly named in 2011 by Wolfgang Wahlster, Henning Kagermann and Wolf-Dieter Lukas. The term became the name of the Federal Government's high-tech strategy and a synonym for the production of the future worldwide. Since 2005, the technology initiative SmartFactoryKL e.V., based at the DFKI in Kaiserslautern, has been researching and developing such technologies. The factory of the future is flexible, safe and produces both large series and customized individual products with the optimal use of resources. Humans work hand in hand with robots in hybrid teams and are supported in their activities by intelligent assistance systems.

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  1. DACE - Data Competence Centre for Circular Economy Data

    The aim of the circular economy (CE) is to enable sustainable development through the effective and efficient use of materials by minimising the extraction of resources from the environment as well as…

  2. FAIRe_RIC - Frugal Artificial Intelligence in Resource-limited environments

    FAIRe aims to develop resource-limited AI for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and edge devices. The development approach should extend comprehensively from the application layer to the…

  3. BERTHA - BEhavioural Replication of Human drivers for CCAM

    The Horizon Europe project BERTHA kicked off on November 22nd-24th in Valencia, Spain. The project has been granted €7,981,799.50 from the European Commission to develop a Driver Behavioral Model…

  4. 5G-ADirI - Automatisierung und Digitalisierung der regulatorischen Interaktionen für die Bereitstellung und den Betrieb von privaten 5G Netzen

    For the approval of 5G licenses from the private spectrum, applicants must go through various processes, which is usually done by submitting forms and subsequent manual processing.

    manual processing.…

  5. 5G-CANKRIN - 5G-Campusnetze für kritische Infrastrukturen

    Since pumps are often part of critical infrastructure, it is important to minimize their downtime. For this reason, additive sensing and predictive maintenance methods are used to

    Optimize maintenance…

  6. FAIRe - Frugal Artificial Intelligence in Resource-limited environments

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is finding increasingly diverse applications in the physical world, especially in embedded, cyber-physical devices with limited resources and under demanding conditions.…

  7. PERKS - Eliciting and Exploiting Procedural Knowledge in Industry 5.0

    The PERKS project supports the holistic governance of industrial PK in its entire life cycle, from elicitation to management and from access to exploitation. PERKS bases its solutions on leading-edge…

  8. HumAIne - Hybrid Human-AI Decision Support for Enhanced Human Empowerment in Dynamic Situations

    At HumAIne, we aim to pioneer the development and integration of innovative AI paradigms. Our goal is to make human-AI collaboration not only advanced but also profoundly reliable, even in dynamic and…

  9. dAIEDGE - A network of excellence for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge

    The dAIEDGE Network of Excellence (NoE) seeks to strengthen and support the development of the dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European AI Lighthourse and to…

  10. ExPrIS - Knowledge-Level Expectations as Priors for Object Interpretation from Sensor Data

    "What will I see when I turn this corner?"

    Depending on what is around that corner, this question is easy for us to answer. We are likely to see a refrigerator in a kitchen, ships at a port, and a…