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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. DaFF - Datenmanagement für die Feldforschung

    Field experiments do not take place under the fixed conditions of a laboratory, but in the environment where a process actually happens: on farmland, in road traffic or on the coast. Weather, soil…

  2. GEISHR - Generalist Edge Intelligence for Human-Safe Robots

    GEIHSR develops a generalist edge-intelligence framework for safe, low-cost, human-centered industrial robotics. The aim is to close the gap between perception and action by combining AI-based…

  3. GenAI4EU Nexus - GenAI4EU Nexus

    The GenAI4EU Nexus Coordination and Support Action officially started on 1 May and will establish a European hub for trustworthy generative AI—a single entry point linking research, industry, SMEs and…

  4. KI-Auto-Net - KI-gestützte Automatisierung von Netzen für die Industrie

    KI-Auto-Net identifies the needs and challenges of industry in order to operate campus networks much more easily, efficiently, and economically with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and…

  5. LxM - Hybride agentische LxM-Softwareplattform für die konforme und autonome Planung und Steuerung von Produktions- und Unternehmensprozessen

    Technology-oriented research and innovation targeting the next generation of “Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI)” can make a decisive contribution to maintaining and enhancing competitiveness.…

  6. etaGPT - etaGPT – Ein interaktiver KI-Assistent zur Analyse und Optimierung von Energiesystemen

    Das Forschungsprojekt etaGPT zielt auf die Entwicklung eines intelligenten, interaktiven KI-Assistenten zur Analyse, Optimierung und Automatisierung industrieller Energiesysteme. Im Mittelpunkt steht…

  7. Amenable - Accessible AI in Sensor-Based Systems for Environment Monitoring

    AMENABLE addresses a fundamental challenge in AI-driven environment monitoring: the gap between the informal, task-specific concept hierarchies typical of robotics and sensor systems, and the formal,…

  8. PreAIrranging - Preparing an Al-Based Rearranging Hub+

    Industrial production is facing growing challenges: varying product configurations, ever-shorter innovation cycles, and unstable supply chains are continuously driving up the complexity of planning…

  9. AI-DISCO - Edge-Cloud AI for DIstributed Sensing and COmputing

    The AI-DISCO project (Edge-Cloud AI for Distributed Sensing and Computing) addresses the challenges of data throughput, energy consumption, scalability, resilience, and security by researching an…

  10. Open6GHub+ - Offenes 6G Transferzentrum für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft

    The collaborative project "Open6GHub" focuses on various thematically specific missions that address concrete challenges in building future 6G networks. In close collaboration with relevant…