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The Stuttgart-based start-up aucobo has its sights set on simple networking of various interfaces, devices and machines. The two-person start-up team began working on this in early 2016. Their smart systems, such as a smartwatch, make it easy for information to be exchanged between employees and machines. This means that production workflows are networked very efficiently.

Pilot project at Festo

The mobile machine operation solution is already in use at the Scharnhausen Technology Plant. The production workers can use the smartwatch to make flexible adjustments, and changes in status or faults on machines are sent directly to the workers via the smartwatch. They can also use it to request support from other systems. The solution increases machine availability and reduces unnecessary movement of employees around the production facility.

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The Austrian software developer Holo-Light focuses on Industry 4.0 solutions with augmented reality devices such as the Microsoft HoloLens. Users of these devices can digitally enhance their real environment with additional information. Holo-Light develops intuitively operated mixed-reality software products for a wide range of industrial applications, such as smart glasses for use in production or at trade fairs. The start-up was founded in April 2015.

Pilot project at Festo

Festo is testing the HoloLens smart glasses for the first time as part of a pilot project at the Rohrbach plant. The technology supports workers with typical, repetitive processes, for example during training. Instead of working at the machine itself in the plant, the assembly process is projected in a training room via the smart glasses.

With the help of holographic images and verbal instructions, the operating sequences, including all of the necessary details, can be taught virtually, step by step. Workers can practise assembly processes, become familiar with products and receive important conduct and safety training via the smart glasses, without interrupting the flow of production. The HoloLens therefore helps to save time and costs and contributes to well-trained employees.

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realworld one is a global provider of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). It serves customers in the fields of life sciences, analytics and diagnostics, as well as the pharmaceutical and chemical industry and process technology. It offers a systematic approach to the implementation of VR and AR in sales, marketing, service, support and production. realworld one currently has more than 200 employees, including at the corporate head office in Freiburg im Breisgau and in four other branches.

(Pilot) projects at Festo

The Scharnhausen Technology Plant introduced VR for system procurement back in 2017 to optimise the procurement process for new systems. VR has since become an important part of many other processes, including some collaborative projects. For example, VR is used in assembly system planning to gather feedback from staff at an early stage and optimise the assembly and workplace layouts. This means that new manual workstations or machines can be comprehensively, and above all realistically, analysed and optimised when still in the design and planning phase. A virtual experience of future assembly systems also reduces costs for subsequent changes and training procedures and significantly improves the speed of work, ergonomics and employee satisfaction.

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The sharing economy has reached industry: V-INDUSTRY enables third-party production to be commissioned cost-effectively and transparently. The V-INDUSTRY platform makes it quick and easy to find suitable machines for a production order, as well as available machine capacities. The start-up from Ostfildern thus optimises the commissioning of contract manufacturers and sustainably streamlines administrative processes in the value stream.

Pilot project at Festo

The V-INDUSTRY platform is used in Festo’s equipment production facilities in Scharnhausen. With the help of the tool, orders can be placed more quickly and more flexibly. These steps can now be automated and made more efficient: V-INDUSTRY has a holistic vision of digitalisation and Industry 4.0, which results in significant potential for optimisation in administrative processes.

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