“Identifying and exploiting cost-saving potential!” The traditional conference “Production Integrated Environmental Protection (PIUS)” was held as a hybrid event this year, as the number of participants in the conference room of the communication building at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB), due to the ongoing Corona restrictions, is limited. The PIUS conference has been organized for…
New Mobility Day: What does the future hold for us? In cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture and the Association of Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Rhineland-Palatinate, representatives of the Rhineland-Palatinate automotive industry met to discuss the future of mobility. How must automotive manufacturers and their suppliers respond to…
From October 25 to November 16, 2021, the Luxembourg Digital Innovation Hub (L-DIH) team toured the country in its yellow bus to meet with companies in the manufacturing industry and discuss their digital transformation and the implementation of an Industry 4.0 approach. The campaign was deemed a success, and the team plans to repeat it…
The Interreg project AACOMA, working on automatic fabric handling issues for composite materials, organized a roadshow in Liege on October 20, 2021. The laboratory of robotics and automation of the University of Liege presented its research work in automatic textile handling, but also, more generally in robotics. The audience, about 50 people, was composed of…
On October 20, KomZet Saar (Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Saarbrücken) organized a workshop on the topic of digital tools for sustainable production. The speaker was Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Vette-Steinkamp, head of the working group for environmentally friendly production processes at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) and industrial robotics and former project manager of the Robotix Academy.…
Robot programming As part of the university program “Interface School-University” of the Ministry of Science, Further Education and Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld of Trier University has been offering regular vacation courses for high school students since 2011. The courses cover various topics from the natural sciences, technology and computer science and are…
The Technology Day 2021 in Aktueller Bericht of the SR (from minute 19:50) This year’s Technology Day in Saarland did not take place in the summer, as is usually the case, but shortly before the fall vacations: After a turbulent school year dominated by the Corona pandemic, school life seems to be slowly returning to…
The 5th Robotix-Academy Summer School was organized by University of Luxembourg on the 7th and 8th of October 2021. The event took place at Campus Kirchberg where participants from the consortium attended the event in-person. Details of workshops The first session of the summer school following the welcoming of the participants was handled by Prof.…
On September 23, the Interreg GR & Energy theme day took place in Saarlouis Fraulautern. The aim of the event was to promote cross-border cooperation in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy (video). The program included the presentation of the energy projects of the Interreg V A Greater Region program in the field…
The Robotix-Academy Conference for Industrial Robotics RACIR 2021 took place for the fifth time this year and could, after a break due to Corona, finally be held as a presence event again. On September 22nd, the scientific staff and students of the different research bases of the Academy in Rhineland-Palatinate met at the invitation of…