Digital Light Factory

Overview

Our range of services

Continuous production in industry is a decisive success factor for today's business. Future production will require additional evaluation and ramp-up phases in which concepts can be tested and processes developed. This form of production creates needs a test environment or an integration environment that brings the developed processes together and optimizes them with regard to functionality and productivity. In this way, operational risks and optimization potentials can be identified quickly and before the start of production.

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The Digital Light Factory of the technology focus digitalisation provides an individual and isolated development, validation and ramp-up environment. At its core, it comprises the manufacturing technology with all required control and automation interfaces. Depending on the targeted Industry 4.0 Maturity Index, this environment is fully integrated into a virtual or real Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP). From integration to start-up test, infrastructure is available that is similar or equal to the later production conditions, depending on the customer’s requirements. The resources of the Fraunhofer ILT offer a choice of building blocks ranging from automation and simulation to sensor technology, so that additional solutions can be integrated.

We bring technological components and solutions into real production.

Manufacturing environment

  • Use of manufacturing systems in combination with customer-specific equipment such as sensors, processing heads, beam shaping optics
  • Installation of customer-specific production systems for evaluation during production start-up
  • Establishment of process chains to identify production-critical components and to evaluate optimization potential

Industry 4.0 laboratory

  • Installation of solution components in the virtual factory to investigate function scenarios and complete interfaces
  • Expansion of the integration and functional scope of manufacturing systems to increase the Industry 4.0 Maturity Index

Technological development

  • Development of complete demonstrators for the validation of new technologies in the context of real production conditions
  • Evaluation of transferability scenarios of existing system solutions to new fields of application

Markets

Laser technology can solve demanding tasks in many different industries. Whether as a tool in automotive production, as measuring equipment in the environmental sector, as a diagnostic or therapeutic instrument in medical technology or as a communication medium in space technology, the laser provides multiple uses with high productivity and high efficiency.

Read up about the innovations of the Fraunhofer ILT in a few selected industries and convince yourself!

 

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