Greetings:

Reinhold Umminger
Director Global Business, Deutsche Messe Technology Academy

Franz Loogen
CEO, e-mobil BW

Position: The state of the Industry

Content:

• The course has been set – and will not be reversed
• The key: Mobilizing innovation potential

Interview

Tom Mitchell
President & COO, Insequence.com
Expert in optimized assembly and supply chain resilience ( Blog: https://insequence.com/blog)

Optimizing Processes in Manufacturing and Logistics

Content:

• The historic US-experience: Re-inventing an industry
• Leveraging Just-In-Time (JIT) and Just-In-Sequence
• Flexible solutions and transparent production processes.
• Perspectives: Real-time monitoring and predictive analytics.

Hans Gäng
local global

Q&A with the experts

What are the current challenges: Tariffs, cost pressure along the supply chain, overcapacity, new markets?

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Moderation

Markus Strehlitz, Editor Industrieanzeiger

Welcome and outlook for the day

Dr. Jochen Köckler, CEO, Deutsche Messe AG

Keynote: Soft Robotics and HASEL Artificial Muscles: A new Generation of Lifelike Robots

Dr. Christoph Keplinger, Director at Max-Planck-Institut for Intelligent Systems

Biological muscle is an evolutionary masterpiece, powering the versatile arms of an octopus, strong enough to move an elephant, fast enough for the wings of a hummingbird, self-healing after injury and seamlessly integrated with distributed sensory systems. These amazing capabilities have inspired the development of artificial muscles – a major science and engineering challenge that dates back to the 17th century.

The Robotic Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is currently aiming to understand the fundamental principles and materials science, as well as to develop robotic applications of a new class of self-sensing, high-performance artificial muscles called hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic (HASEL) actuators, a platform technology developed by this research group. 

iiQKA: The new operating system and ecosystem from KUKA

Mastering the requirements of the future with intuitive and intelligent automation solutions

Coffee break and Networking

Simple plug & play solutions for cobot palletizing and welding

Welding, stacking, screwing: Three Cobot applications in practice

Gregor Spieker, Channel Development Manager, Universal Robots GmbH

Welding, stacking, screwing – three areas that are almost classics among the use cases for cobots. But where to start with automation? That’s still what numerous users ask themselves every day. Gregor Spieker explains the most important components, interfaces and steps for a successful cobot project.

Lunch break and Networking

When is a cobot application safe? Safety and security in the application

Dr.-Ing. Christian Henke, Head of Department Scientific Automation, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronics Design IEM

Due to the constantly increasing networking, today’s technical systems are often no longer closed, but have several interfaces to the outside. This opens the door to cyber attacks, which can range from spying out data to manipulating and disrupting operations. These threats lead to major challenges in the development process of robot and cobot applications. In particular, the eminently important guarantee of functional safety becomes difficult to manage due to increasing complexity or networking. In addition, the attack resistance or IT security of the systems must be considered. To this end, Fraunhofer IEM is developing innovative methods and tools that analyze the mutual influence of safety and security in order to guarantee holistic security along the system life cycle. This approach – safety and security-by-design – is presented using a cobot application example.

Safety of automated guided vehicles – Innovations in robotics and automation

Visor Robotic – Advantages of full hand-eye calibration

Alexander Resch, Product manager, SensoPart Industriesensorik GmbH

Robot camera calibrations provide a unique mechanical-mathematical link between the robotic system and the vision sensor or system. A variety of different calibration methods exist, each with advantages, disadvantages and limitations on the application side. In this presentation, we will give an overview of typical calibration methods and convey the advantages of a complete hand-eye calibration with the VISOR Robotic. 

Coffee break and Networking

Artificial intelligence and its potential for robotics.

Maximilian Mutschler, VP Sales, micropsi industries GmbH

Gripping cables, plugging cables and checking for leaks – how robots master the previously impossible

Moving towards gesture recognition and self programming

Panel discussion