Projects and Cooperation
Dr. Gerhard Müller (Deputy Director Fraunhofer IFF), Dr. Eberhard Blümel (Fraunhofer IFF), Antonio Guterres (President of the Jury and former Minister President of Portugal), State Secretary Dr. Rudolf Bohn and Heidrun Mushack (Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Economics and Labor)
ProDiMA
ProDiMA (Development of Innovative Products and Services Utilizing VR Technologies for Machine and Plant Engineering SME) is developing instruments and technologies for small and medium-sized enterprise based on their needs. The goal is to offer new services for the digital factory, for product development and marketing and for advanced training based on state of the art virtual reality technologies. Researchers are working in the field of virtual product development and, for example, creating virtual operating manuals (so-called product documentation) for complex equipment and plants. As specialists for interactive simulations, they develop visual-interactive product presentations and technologies for training on complex machinery (virtual training).
Virtual-interactive Model of a Flaking Mill
The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation has worked on the VDTC model project intensively starting in June of 2002. Having concluded their work in 2004, the researchers were accorded a great honor: ProDiMA received the European Innovation Award in April 2004.
With a letter in July 2003 to the Minister President of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the European Commission extended an invitation to a European competition. Eligible contestants had the best projects from the 126 European regions, which were part of EDRF (European Regional Development Fund) innovative actions. Each region was allowed one candidate. The VDTC was considered the most innovative project for Saxony-Anhalt and its model project ProDiMA ProDiMA was entered in the competition. Chaired by Antonio Guterres former Minister President of Portugal, the distinguished jury invited VDTC ProDiMA to Brussels to give a presentation. Thus the innovative joint project with the companies CIMBRIA SKET GmbH, Bio-Oelwerk Magdeburg GmbH, Schiess AG, SIGMA Maschinenbau GmbH, Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerke Dessau GmbH and the Fraunhofer IFF as project coordinator was one of the top three in the category “Regional Economies Based on Knowledge and Technological Innovation”. The winning Magdeburg team traveled to the awards ceremony in Brussels on April 22, 2004.
Contact:
Dr. Martin Endig
Process and Plant Engineering Business Unit
Tel.: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90-120
Fax: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90- 115
Fraunhofer Institute for
Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Sandtorstrasse 22
39106 Magdeburg
Virtual-interactive Model of a Flaking Mill
The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation has worked on the VDTC model project intensively starting in June of 2002. Having concluded their work in 2004, the researchers were accorded a great honor: ProDiMA received the European Innovation Award in April 2004.
With a letter in July 2003 to the Minister President of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the European Commission extended an invitation to a European competition. Eligible contestants had the best projects from the 126 European regions, which were part of EDRF (European Regional Development Fund) innovative actions. Each region was allowed one candidate. The VDTC was considered the most innovative project for Saxony-Anhalt and its model project ProDiMA ProDiMA was entered in the competition. Chaired by Antonio Guterres former Minister President of Portugal, the distinguished jury invited VDTC ProDiMA to Brussels to give a presentation. Thus the innovative joint project with the companies CIMBRIA SKET GmbH, Bio-Oelwerk Magdeburg GmbH, Schiess AG, SIGMA Maschinenbau GmbH, Anhaltische Elektromotorenwerke Dessau GmbH and the Fraunhofer IFF as project coordinator was one of the top three in the category “Regional Economies Based on Knowledge and Technological Innovation”. The winning Magdeburg team traveled to the awards ceremony in Brussels on April 22, 2004.
Contact:
Dr. Martin Endig
Process and Plant Engineering Business Unit
Tel.: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90-120
Fax: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90- 115
Fraunhofer Institute for
Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Sandtorstrasse 22
39106 Magdeburg