SS12 - Automation of Automation

Special Session Organized by

Ramez Awad, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany and Thomas Bauernhansl, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA; Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management IFF at the University of Stuttgart, Germany and Richard Bormann, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany and Werner Kraus, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany

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Focus

In this Special Session we will focus on methods, tools and technologies aimed at the reduction of lead time and engineering effort for designing, implementing or adapting a production line for new products, product variants or higher/lower production volumes.

Topics under this session include (but not limited to)
  • Manufacturability of products in general and w.r.t. specific production systems
  • Discovery of resource skills/capabilities, as well as asset management
  • Capability-based resource selection and task assignment
  • Generation of cell layouts and AGV transportation routes
  • Scheduling of production and logistic jobs
  • Generation of executable control programs
  • Coordination and orchestration of production and logistic agents
  • Usage of Machine Learning for robot programming
  • Automated risk assessment and CE declaration
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