EDAG Tech Insights (4)

Turbo for Innovative Bike Projects

Although the bicycle is enjoying a real boom, suppliers are under pressure from many different directions: Deliveries from Asia fail to materialize, customer requirements are becoming more exacting, and competition is essentially also a race to generate more innovations in less time. A greater real net output ratio is the order of the day: from...

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Software & Digitalisation

High-Quality Input for AI from the Smartphone

More and more applications are leveraging the power of machine learning and neural networks for object recognition. However, how efficient artificial intelligence is at such tasks depends, among other things, on the quality of the training data. With the right tools, suitable data sets can be generated via tablet and smartphone. Is the road clear...

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Software & Digitalisation

Towns are not defenseless against heavy rainfall

"Heavy rainfall events" are occurring ever more often as a result of climate change and they are causing more and more damage. Additional efforts are required to protect life, property and infrastructure of towns and cities. The heavy rainfall early warning system can help decisively minimize damage. On May 19, 2022, Mundelsheim local council...

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Production Solutions

Absolutely clean projects in EDAG Production Solutions's clean room

Without clean rooms, the development and manufacture of many high-tech products is virtually inconceivable. Cleanliness requirements are becoming increasingly stringent, in the production of semiconductor components, for instance. Considering that component structures in the single-digit nanometer range can now be exposed by lithography, it...

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Software & Digitalisation

How to Exploit the Wealth of Knowledge in Service Tickets

Workshop orders, activity reports from service technicians or customer complaints – it is standard practice to document all of these in databases, along with the associated repair measures or other solutions. However, once the case is closed, the information stored is hardly ever accessed again. Even though it contains valuable practical...

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Vehicle Engineering

Hydrogen drives: The here and now rather than science fiction

Although hydrogen filling stations are a rare sight in Germany, the technology is not only ready to use. It is also available. Together with NPROXX, the EDAG Group has developed a high-pressure hydrogen storage system, which it also produces at its Bremen location. It is used in buses for urban public transport and in commercial vehicles. Large,...

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Production Solutions

Machine retrofit from a single source

The manufacturing industry is faced with the challenge of maintaining and optimizing existing machines and plants at an ever-increasing cost. A retrofit enables a modern upgrade of plants and machines with regard to stabilization and increase of the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and the integration of plants into digitalization concepts....

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Vehicle Engineering

From Diesel to Hydrogen Combustion Engine by Plug and Play

From 2035, it is expected that only CO2-neutral passenger cars and lightweight commercial vehicles will be allowed to be registered. This will also apply, for instance, to trucks, tractors and construction machinery. For a technology change in vehicle construction, this deadline is a definite challenge. There are many approaches how to replace...

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Vehicle Engineering

Battery Power and Hydrogen in a Hybrid Storage System

As far as passenger cars are concerned, the automotive industry is currently focusing on 100% battery-electric vehicles. Particularly for long distances, there are disadvantages to this, such as the high weight of the batteries or the long charging times. The mixed operation of batteries and fuel cells could be an interesting alternative. To this...

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Production Solutions

How Bin Picking Works

Unsorted parts in containers, boxes full of bolts for example, are often an inhibiting factor when it comes to industrial automation. Frequently, this still means laborious manual work. But bin picking – where a robot picks up parts – has undergone significant development in recent years. Modern technologies are lowering the barriers to entry into...

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