On 18 November, the second annual evaluation meeting Robotix-Academy project consortium took place. The meeting was organised by our project partner University of Liège, Belgium. For the first time, the meeting could again take place as an on-site event, although the pandemic situation is somewhat tense again towards the end of the year. The progress…
On November 18, a group of pupils from the Johannes Kepler Gymnasium in Lebach visited the ZeMA. About 20 pupils of the 12th class of the MINT section came to Saarbrücken accompanied by two high school teachers to participate in a practical workshop on the topic of industrial robotics and human-robot collaboration in the context…
On 15 November 2021, on behalf of the Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour, Energy and Transport (MWAEV) and the cooperation partners IHK Saarland and autoregion e. V., the event ” Traction Battery: From Manufacturing to Recycling” from the series “Car of the Future” took place. From 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., interested parties were…
On November 10, the scientific staff of ZeMA organized a KUKA workshop for the project partner Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) as part of the Robotix Academy. Seven scientific staff members as well as student assistants from the UCB came to Saarbrücken to familiarize themselves with the programming and commissioning of the KUKA lbr iiwa. The colleagues…
The automotive industry is currently undergoing enormous upheavals. It can be assumed that this change will continue for a long time and will bring many challenges as well as opportunities. The change not only affects the products of the vehicle industry, but also to a large extent their manufacture. Aspects such as Industry 4.0, digitalization,…
“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.…