Industry 4.0
The fourth industrial revolution is fully underway. Digitalization and technological development are changing the manufacturing processes of our goods and will transform how we work in the future. The "Internet of Things" blurs the line between the real and the virtual world. Through modern information and communication technology, machines and workflows in the industry are intelligently networked. In the future, humans, machines, plants, and products will communicate and collaborate with each other.
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Increasingly shorter product life cycles pose great challenges for the process industry. At the “Process-To-Order” (P2O) Lab scientists from the Faculties of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Computer Science combine their know-how in an open teaching, research, and evaluation platform in order to develop new process and production concepts. For the researchers at TU Dresden, the solution lies in the modularization and digitalization of the process industry. To make production processes more flexible, production plants of the future will consist of prefabricated modules that can easily be adapted or swapped out. Modularization opens up countless possibilities for optimizing production processes.
Project coordinators:
Dr.-Ing. Anselm Klose
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology
Process Systems Engineering Group
Jonathan Mädler
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology
Process Systems Engineering Group
A self-driving excavator, a wireless 5G network with a cloud for the construction site, and intelligent tools – with technologies like these, a digitalized construction site can meet the challenges of the future, such as the shortage of skilled workers. In a joint project with more than 20 partners, engineers from TU Dresden are developing new machine and communications technologies for a fully networked construction site.
Project coordinator:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Weber
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Chair of Fluid-Mechatronic Systems (Fluidtronics)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Will
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Endowed Chair of Construction Machines
Contact person
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ralph Stelzer
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Chair of Engineering Design and CAD
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Leon Urbas
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair of Process Control Systems
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Martin Wollschlaeger
Faculty of Computer Science
Chair of Industrial Communications