Automation based on information and communication technologies is the innovation driver for Industry 4.0, making it crucial for the competitiveness of German mechanical and plant engineering and neighboring industries. The CIIT, as one of the three regional performance centers in the BMBF top cluster "it's OWL - Intelligent Technical Systems OstWestfalenLippe", is a leader in this field.
At CIIT, competitors work and research together in projects. "Within pre-competitive research, the partners are united by the common insight that information and communication technologies are key drivers of innovation for automation and production technology," says Professor Jürgen Jasperneite, head of the two Lemgo research institutions and co-initiator of the CIIT. For Bosch Rexroth, the innovative research environment around the CIIT technology campus with the new research factory complements the company's own research activities within the field of action Industry 4.0. "We see the partnership as a strategic contribution to the further development of assembly technology for the factory of the future," says Günter Krenz, Technical Director of Assembly Technology at Bosch Rexroth. Bosch Rexroth will therefore contribute its assembly technology and control technology to the "Smart Factory OWL," an initiative of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the OWL University of Applied Sciences. The company hopes that this will provide impetus, particularly in the area of "People in the Industry 4.0 environment". This includes, among other things, adaptive and highly flexible work systems or role-specific information provision at the workplace. Wherever the dialog between science and industry leads to new solutions for increasingly efficient machines, plants and production systems, "we naturally want to be there and make a decisive contribution," says Krenz, confirming the company's commitment to the OWL Leading-Edge Cluster Region. "After all, we can only be the decisive step ahead in international competition through innovations."
[Source: CENTRUM INDUSTRIAL IT (CIIT)]