Automation and Embedded Systems

Jana Jost, employee of the Automation and Embedded Systems department, visited the Bitkom on 28.11.2018. As part of the conference "netz:regeln 2018 - smart, smarter, autonomous: Socio-political and economic issues of automated and autonomous decisions", Jana Jost presented on behalf of the Fraunhofer IML topics on decentralized organization, social systems, artificial intelligence and social networked industry.

At the electronica (November 13th to 16th 2018), the ePaper display from EMILI was also advertised in friendly cooperation with the ADKOM Elektronik GmbH.

In addition to 3100 exhibitors from 50 countries, 80000 visitors from more than 80 countries were also present. The electronica informed this time around the topics automotive, embedded, medical electronics and wireless.

The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is one of the most important robotics conferences in the world. Over 3000 specialists from the Research and Industry participated in the five daylong conference from October 1-5, 2018 to exchange views on the latest innovations and technical developments through workshops, forums, discussions and the accompanying exhibitions. The Conference was... 

The seventh International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE) took place this year from 03.09. until 05.09.2018 on the SophiaTech campus of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in France...

The "2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics" (ISR) took place at the Maritim Hotel, Shenyang (China) from August 24 to 27 2018. Preity Gupta, a member of the Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund, gave a lecture on the topic "A new Approach towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction in Highly Flexible Warehouses"...

At the 9th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) from July 21-25 2018 at Loews Sapphire Falls Resort, Orlando, Florida (USA), Jana Jost, Thomas Kirks presented their work "Sociotechnical Design of Industrial Transport Vehicles and their Interaction with Humans in Production Systems".

On July 10th 2018, the new research and application facilities of the Innovation Laboratory for Hybrid Services in Logistics officially opened at the Fraunhofer IML, which is performed in cooperation with the TU Dortmund (FIA and sfs)...

Jana Jost, employee of the Automation and Embedded Systems department of the Fraunhofer IML in Dortmund gave a talk on Social Network Industry - human, machine hand in hand at the Logistik-Manufaktur Baden-Württemberg on 05.07.2018 as part of the theme day "INNOVATION – WHAT DOES THE WORLD OF TOMMOROW LOOK LIKE?“...

The DASA has rebuilt its "Neue Arbeitswelten" and made the new exhibition unit accessible from 05.05.2018. The Fraunhofer IML is also represented with a number of exhibits - also including the Automation and Embedded Systems department with a cellular transport vehicle.

Once again, the Automation and Embedded Systems department of the Fraunhofer IML presented its developments to the wide range of trade fair visitors of CeMAT, which took place from April 23 to April 27 in Hanover...

Once again, the team from the Automation and Embedded Systems department of the Fraunhofer IML was at LogiMAT. This year's LogiMAT took place from 13.03 to 15.03.2018 in Stuttgart...

Jana Jost and Benedikt Mättig gave a talk on the topic of "Innovative Material Flow Systems" at the 27th German Material Flow Congress 2018 in Munich on February 28. The topic was "EMILI - Ergonomic, Mobile, Interactive Load carriers for Intralogistics - container or AGV "...

The urban mobility of the future was this year's topic at the »Innovation Day« of the Business Metropole Ruhr, which took place in Essen. Previously Companies, Start-ups as well as students from all over Germany had the opportunity to participate in the »Innovation Call« with their solutions and innovations. In the various content areas, the participants were then able to demonstrate their innovative products, projects and inputs.

According to the latest worldwide estimates, in the next 20 years 70 to 80 percent of the present jobs will not exist anymore. Therefore, it is of crucial importance that companies have at one’s disposal of technological instruments to cope with these changes, to maintain their competitiveness. Simultaneously the education system has to prepare for a paradigm change...

This year the 19^th International Conference for MobileHCI took place in Vienna from 4^th to 9^th of September and commented on many interesting subjects around Human-Computer Interaction. The main topic this time was the communication of mobile devices and services with artificial intelligence.

The Fraunhofer IML demonstrated an AR-supported palletizing scenario and presented the study results of manual palletizing. Analyzing the process times and...

This year‘s AWE (Augmented World Expo) opened its doors from 30^th of May until 1^st of June 2017 for international attendees and guests from production and logistic industries. As biggest symposium for AR and VR, the AWE took among other locations place in Santa Clara (USA) this year.

Topics presented by Fraunhofer IML were e.g. research projects concerning the usage of AR in production and logistics as well as a presentation of a packaging-study, which refers to...

„Networking – digital and across all boarders“ – was this year's theme at transport logistic 2017 which took place from 9^th to 12^th of May in Munich. Fraunhofer IML presented itself among many other exhibitors from all around the world at the world's largest exhibition for the transport and logistics sector. The main topic of the fair was the whole range of products and services of the segments rail, road, water and air transport. Furthermore, future-oriented technologies like Automated Guided Vehicles or the utilization of robots and drones were in spotlight. 

LogiMAT Stuttgart – 15th International Trade Fair for Distribution, Materials Handling and Information Flow, sets new standards as the biggest annual intralogistics exhibition in Europe.

Between 14 and 16 March 2017 international exhibitors and decision-makers from industry, trade and the service sector will be coming together at the new exhibition centre at Stuttgart Airport to find new business partners.

Visit us at LogiMAT Hall 1, Stand 1K61.