Short Description
In order to accelerate digital transformation processes, greater efforts are needed - both in applied research and development and in practical implementation - to support SMEs in particular in this process. The Institute of Industrial Management at FH JOANNEUM has therefore designed and implemented the Smart Production Lab - Austria's first applied Industry 4.0 teaching and research factory with an integrated FabLab - at the industry-oriented university site in Kapfenberg. The Smart Production Lab comprises horizontally integrated machinery (3D printing, CNC, robotics, etc.), IT workstations for planning (MES, ERP), real-time reporting and other vertical integration applications, a creative zone (NextGen Lab), an IT security lab and a seminar and workshop area.
On the one hand, the aim is to qualify industrial engineers for future requirements in the context of the advancing global industrial revolution (human resource function). On the other hand, the competitive advantages of Austria as an industrial region in the field of digitalisation are to be secured through the development of skills and the initiation of application and implementation-oriented research processes in the form of use cases (project and transformation function). Finally, the Smart Production Lab is an innovation environment for potential start-ups and is available to them and an interested public as part of FabLab operations (prototyping and dissemination function).
The objectives are achieved through the unique focus on combining vertical and horizontal integration with the possibilities of digitalisation and the Internet of Things (IoT). The focus is on the optimal utilisation of data from the supplier to the customer, and from the shop floor via the MES and ERP system to reporting. Since March 2018, the Smart Production Lab has been researching digital transformation by manufacturing customised product prototypes.
Contact Person
Stefan Muckenhuber BSc MSc PhD
Research Services
R&D co-operations
Applied, scientific innovation projects
Diploma theses
Conferences
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Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
The central theme of the Smart Production Lab is vertical and horizontal IT and process integration for the digital networking of machines, systems and people (cyber-physical systems) - from inbound (demand assessment, procurement, supplier management, delivery) through production to outbound or to the customer or from product design through production planning and logistics to the finished product and reporting.
In applied research projects, focal points of the digital transformation are realised on the basis of real company processes and in some cases together with cooperating industrial partners. This includes topics such as the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality, big data, additive manufacturing and IT security.
Would you like to see the Smart Production Lab for yourself or discuss a research co-operation with us? Please get in touch with our contact person.
On the one hand, partners are offered diploma theses and R&D projects. On the other hand, partners can take part in Knowledgefactory seminars and use the laboratory. In addition, our partners have the opportunity to present themselves to the public and thus attract the attention of future highly qualified employees from the ranks of FH JOANNEUM students.
On the one hand, they contribute resources to the development of the R&D infrastructure in the Smart Production Lab and, on the other hand, they work together with the university in Kapfenberg on key topics. Their input helps to ensure that the content of the Smart Production Lab and the existing infrastructure are up to date: https://www.fh-joanneum.at/en/research/research-centres/smart-production-lab/partners/
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