The "Industrie 4.0 Collaboration Lab", located in the premises of the LESC (Lifecycle Engineering Solutions Center) at KIT offers a seamless IT infrastructure for testing technologies and processes under the sign of Industrie 4.0. The Lab opened back in September 2014 in cooperation with SolidLine AG, Bechtle IT-Systemhaus Karlsruhe, and other industry partners as well as the FZI Research Center for Information Technology and is designed as a test environment.
LESC website: https://www.imi.kit.edu/english/40.php
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TESTING
The hardware and software environment provided in the Lab SMEs in particular the opportunity to get to know the options and opportunities of Industrie 4.0 technologies in the form of 3D environments in virtual and augmented reality. Until now, these companies have often been reluctant to invest in new technologies whose advantages are not immediately apparent. However, topics related to Industry 4.0 are also of great importance for SMEs from a strategic point of view, such as maintaining the necessary digital infrastructure, networking production in real time or automated control of production processes.
DRIVING VIRTUAL REALITY PROJECTS
The "Industrie 4.0 Collaboration Lab" allows promising ideas and technology projects to be jointly implemented in collaboration with business and research. SMEs can test product ideas in the test environment at an early stage and familiarize themselves with working in 3D environments. In the test and qualification lab, companies can run through scenarios using their real data sets. IT solutions for their own business model are developed together with the researchers, thus demonstrating the benefit of Industrie 4.0. It is also possible to provide further training for company employees, wether technicians and engineers or managing directors.
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