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the 4th industrial revolution
Darmstadt City of Science
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Darmstadt City of Science
Department of Economy and Urban Development
Im Carree 1
D-64283 Darmstadt
Germany
Phone +49 61 51 13 20 45
Fax +49 61 51 13 34 55
E-mail [email protected]
Internet www.darmstadt.de
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Welcome to City of Science Darmstadt!............................................................... 4
Internet of things – SME 4.0 Competence Centre ................................................ 7
Internet of things – Technical University Darmstadt ............................................ 8
Internet of things – Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences ........................... 10
Industrial Revolution – Fraunhofer IGD .............................................................. 12
Industrial 4.0 – PCC Consulting ........................................................................ 14
Industrial Internet of things – bright solutions ................................................... 16
Welcome to City of Science Darmstadt!
The City of Science Darmstadt is a city of many stories. Here are a couple of
them.
We have Friedrich Jacob Merck, who bought a local pharmacy in 1668 that would
lead to a family business that is known today as Merck KGaA, the world’s oldest
operating chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world.
We also have Justus von Liebig who became known as “the father of the fertilizer
industry” in addition was working with a manufacturing process for beef extracts
that led to what has become known as bouillon cubes.
City of Science Darmstadt offers its residents, businesses, and visitors something special. We hope that you’ll look through this brochure and discover some
of the many things Darmstadt has to offer, but to really know City of Science
Darmstadt, you can only do this by paying us a visit.
Darmstadt - “City of Science”
In 1997, Darmstadt was granted the honorary title “City of Science” by the Hesse
state government. This honor was given the “City of Science Darmstadt” in
recognition of the city’s chosen identity, while acknowledging a rich history in
scientific and technological, global success. It also confirmed, what people in the
City of Science Darmstadt have known for a long time already: The City of Science Darmstadt provides outstanding opportunities for research and development on national and international scales.
This title is earned through a significant history and tradition of innovation and is
home to no less than 30 major research institutions of which three of them are
Fraunhofer Institutions.
A History of Innovation
City of Science Darmstadt is a city of curiosity, where innovation thrives. Here
are four inventions that are tied to City of Science Darmstadt.
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Plexiglas© came out of work that Röhm GmbH (now part of Evonik Industries)
was doing with poly (meth)acrylates.
Röhm GmbH also developed BURNUS©, the first enzyme-based washing detergent, providing a transition from labor-intensive washing boards to modern washing machines.
Wolfgang Hilbert, who studied at TU Darmstadt and later became a professor
there, invented the digitally encoded time transmission of radio clocks. You
might have a clock or two around your house that synchronize with atomic time
at different parts of the world, being highly accurate, while saving you the trouble
of having to reset it often.
Friedrich Reinitzer, looking into his microscope at Merck, stumbled upon liquid
crystal (LCs) which have resulted in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) being used
laptops, televisions, smartphones, and an ever ex-panding product usage.
Imagine how City of Science Darmstadt’s history of innovative might transform
your business!
Industry 4.0 in the city of science
Three industrial revolutions have lead to nowadays standard. The next technology
revolution, Industrial 4.0, merged together completely all aspects, of what has
been created and invented before. All processes will be connected to each other
and enables not only a smart production, which will become standard for all
branches and sizes of companies. More than this, the capacity and possibilities
of intelligent digitization, will serve humans in all aspects in the day-to-day-life.
It is no secret, that Germany as one of the most successful technology locations
of the world, delivers the highest attainable standard, regarding intelligent ICTbased machines, processes, and systems. Our high performance is based on a
high concentration in science and the transfer of innovations. Two core strengths
of the City of Science, Darmstadt.
With over 47.000 students and over 30 research facilities, an excellent quality of
education at our universities and over 157.000 citizens, the City of Science
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Darmstadt belongs to one of the most important Industrial 4.0 Locations and
counts to the few, real growing cities in Germany.
The given conditions and our infrastructures of formation, economy and research
facitilities, match perfectly the high demanding requirements of our dynamic and
strong concentration of economical and scientifical key actors. The City of Science Darmstadt is well known, as the city of short ways, not only from a physically point of view, as much more for being capable of acting fast, to enable quick
decisions and the transfer from science-to-business. One of the reasons, why the
City of Science Darmstadt counts the second strongest economic force in the
State of Hesse.
Another core competence is the great variety of branches. The five clusters in
automotive, chemistry, electromobility, ICT and space, combining the great portfolio of our universities, made the City of Science Darmstadt lead to the first
place ranking as the city with the most prospering future in Germany.
To give you a small insight of our Industrial 4.0 key players in Darmstadt, we
invite you to take a view at this brochure. For more information, simply get in
touch with us.
You are warmly welcome to consider the City of Science Darmstadt in any manner. We are pleased to assist you in getting to know one of the most important
key locations of the Industry 4.0 revolution in Germany.
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Internet of things – SME 4.0 Competence Centre
Germany is the leading providor of technical factory plants worldwide. It’s out of
question, that the German economy, particularly the German SME sector, has to
be prepared for the digitalization of work processes.
This is why the Federal Minister of Economy and Energy, Mr. Sigmar Gabriel,
opened the first five nationwide SME 4.0 Competence Centres, one of them in the
City of Science Darmstadt. The centers and agencies are part of the new funding
initiative "SME 4.0 - Digital production and work processes". The aim is to support the small and medium enterprises in the digital transformation.
The SME’s will be informed, qualified and provided with practical solutions of
industrial 4.0 applications by the SME 4.0 Competence Centres. The city of Science Darmstadt is represented by the Technical University of Darmstadt thru its
Institute for Production Management. There, at the Process Learning Factory CiP
(Centre for industrial Production), the Centre of excellence for Lean Production
and Industry 4.0, trainings are based on real products manufactured in a real
production environment to enable the understanding methods and deepen them
by practice.
Want to know more? Simply contact:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Karolinenplatz 5
64289 Darmstadt
+49 6151 16-01
[email protected]
www.tu-darmstadt.de
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Internet of things – Technical University Darmstadt
Welcome to ETA- Factory:
The energy efficient model factory of the future
The aim of the project is the construction of a model factory, which unites several interdisciplinary approaches to reduce the energy consumption as well as the
CO2- emissions of industrial production processes.
Research project: in cooperation with several industrial partners, the institute
PTW of TU Darmstadt performed the project Maxiem. During this project, a machining centre was re-designed to become more energy efficient taking into account a desired payback period on investment of 3 years. The realization led to
energy savings of 50%. Following this success, the PTW initiated with 39 research partners the research and demonstration project η-Factory. The η stands
for Energy efficiency, Technology, Application Centre (in German „Energieeffizienz-, Technologie- und Anwendungszentrum“)
To achieve this goal, representative metalworking production plants are analyzed
and optimized regarding energy efficiency aspects. Hereby, the process chain for
manufacturing a machine component our partner Bosch Rexroth serves as reference.
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The production plant includes:
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A turning and grinding centre
Two alternative cleaning processes
A heat treatment (gas nitration)
The target is not exclusively to improve the energy efficiency of single production
plants, but to enable their energetic networking and to supply for example inevitable waste heat to processes with heat demand. Likewise, the production
equipment, the machine periphery, the building technology and the factory building are included in the considerations.
At the end of the project, the developed measures will be put into practice in a
new research and demonstration building at TU Darmstadt.
Technical University City of Science Darmstadt, Photo Ulrich Mathias
Want to know more? Simply contact:
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Karolinenplatz 5
64289 Darmstadt
+49 6151 16-01
[email protected]
www.tu-darmstadt.de
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Internet of things – Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
The Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences puts science into action. With a
student body of approx. 15,000, it is one of the largest and most distinguished
universities of applied sciences in Germany. Its excellent reputation is the result
of a scientifically grounded, real-world approach to higher education and the
professional success of its graduates. The 2006 “trendence” study, for example,
ranked h_da graduates in the top five among German Universities of Applied
Sciences. And according to a survey conducted by the business magazine
Wirtschaftswoche, h_da graduates have long been among the favorite picks of
German companies.
Research at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences is centered on three
primary focus areas:
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Changes to society and the economy
New paths in education and science
Technical and ecological challenges
Within the Industry 4.0 areas, research and development fields include:
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Adaptronics and material sciences
Biotechnology and health
IT security
E-business and market research
Energy technology and energy management
Communications management, journalism, media systems
Industrial design, artistic design
Optics, lighting technology, image processing,
Robotics, measurement and control technologies
Sustainable mobility and transport infrastructure
With the outstanding variety of themes, we are presenting two examples of many
others of our work within the Industry 4.0 field:
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PRODOK 4.0:
This is a process-oriented documentation for Industry 4.0 issues. It is carried out
in our department of computer science by the Federal Ministry of Research since
December 2015 respectively.
This research project is about the semantic integration of process documents in
the intelligent manufacturing. Project partners, including several companies from
the region guarantee, that the focus is always given on the real conditions of
manufacturing.
Photo University of Applied Sciences
SME 4.0 - Digital communication
For some SMEs it is not yet fully clear, which effects of the digitization their
company will be confronted with in the near future. For such questions, concerning digital communication, the agency "SME 4.0 communications" will support all
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companies within the SME-branch in the next three years. This Agency is located
at the Institute of Communication and Media (ikum) at the Faculty of Media of
the University of Darmstadt.
Want to know more? Simply contact:
Hochschule Darmstadt h_da
University of Applied Sciences
Haardtring 100
64295 Darmstadt
+49 06151 16-02
[email protected]
www.h-da.de
Industrial Revolution – Fraunhofer IGD
Fraunhofer IGD is the world’s leading institute for applied research in Visual
Computing. Visual Computing is image- and model-based information technology
and includes computer graphics and computer vision, as well as virtual and
augmented reality.
In simple terms, the Fraunhofer researchers in Darmstadt, Rostock, Graz, and
Singapore are turning images into information and extracting information from
images. In cooperation with its partners, technical solutions and market-relevant
products are created.
Prototypes and integrated solutions are developed in accordance with customized requirements. In doing so, Fraunhofer IGD places users at the forefront,
providing them with technical solutions to facilitate computer work and make it
more efficient. Fraunhofer IGD presents the system called DUPLOcator and
demonstrates how the robot learns to deal with unforeseen change.
"To teach the robot, we combine recognition algorithms with precision robot
control mechanisms. Cameras follow the assembly of a structure from model
building blocks. The robot 'recognizes' the structure's assembly plan and is now
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able to use its modern robot arm and a set of parts to build the recognized structure on its own. The requirements are minimal: The DUPLOcator's camera eye
must be able to see the structure properly and have access to the same component parts."
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Photo Ulrich Mathias
Want to know more? Simply contact:
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
Fraunhoferstrasse 5
64283 Darmstadt
+49 6151 155-0
Fax: +49 6151 155-199
[email protected]
www.igd.fraunhofer.de
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Industrial 4.0 – PCC Consulting
PCC was originally founded as PCC Software GmbH in 1988, before being continued as software and consulting company with the name PCC Consulting GmbH
in 1993. The company’s headquarters is located in Erbach (Odenwald); a subsidiary for software development is located in Darmstadt. For now more than 25
years, PCC has been offering an economically sound management accounting
system for medium-sized enterprises of all industries. Aside from economic consulting and operations analyses PCC develops standard software (with modular
structure) for integrated management accounting systems and as basis for new
demands, created by the complex interconnectivity of industry 4.0, such as adhoc real-time analyses.
When implementing the industry 4.0 vision the time gap between the real state of
the production and its digital image is closed completely.
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Variances can not only be considered in retrospective, but rather be anticipated in advance.
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This results in a big gain in control and planning ability, because data
are available in real-time.
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All relevant influencing factors of all relevant production and cost functions are considered simultaneously.
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The controller evolves from a data collector and administrator to a proactive decision supporter and navigator.
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Measures in reaction to changing markets and dynamics can be taken
without any time-delay.
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Any enterprise data for internal and external analyses and controlling
tasks are available in real-time.
Management accounting 4.0:
In the future, optimised data from the areas energy, production, logistics, purchasing, disposition and environmental management will be processed in realtime, allowing for a new management accounting, which lives up to its original
meaning again, namely the control and optimisation of cost and performance of
the enterprise. This refers to an effective and speedy, well reconciled annual
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planning with complex simulations, as well as the monthly supervision and
control of all enterprise data.
Want to know more? Simply contact:
PCC Consulting GmbH
Städtel 17
D-64711 Erbach
+49 6062 9422-0
+49 6062 9422-44
[email protected]
www.pcc-consulting.de
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Industrial Internet of things – bright solutions
Bright Solutions develops innovative web applications with Drupal and mobile
apps for boosting the efficiency of business processes. The complete service
comprises consultation, conception, implementation and maintenance of individual software projects. Standardized development processes and the adherence to
open source principles provide high quality, transparency and independence
from providers. Bright Solutions GmbH is one of the largest Drupal enterprises in
Germany. Founded in 2007 by Managing Director Manuel Pistner, the company
is headquartered in Darmstadt.
With MyFoam.net, bright solutions offers the first online marketplace for custom
made foam inserts . In a few steps, customers are able to design and create their
individual foam inlay by using the designertool in combination with an object
scanner and offers can be requested through the portal. MyFoam.net has become an exemplary model in the field of digitization and has been presented
2015 as best practice model at the German National IT Summit in Berlin.
Want to know more? Simply contact:
Bright Solutions GmbH
Pallaswiesenstraße 63
64293 Darmstadt, Germany
+49 6151 49326-40
[email protected]
www. myfoam.net
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