Autor: Christoph Herrmann

Sustainable Recycling of EV Traction Batteries

Sustainable Recycling of EV Traction Batteries

Christoph Herrmann, Mark Mennenga, Alexander Kaluza, Bernd Friedrich, Elinor Rombach, Alexander Michaelis, Mareike Partsch, Constantin Wolf
In the course of the shift to electromobility, the use of battery cells as energy storage is facing exponential growth. The goal in research and industry is to design the entire life cycle of these battery cells in the light of global sustainability goals and to ensure the necessary supply of raw materials. In this context, the establishment of efficient recycling technologies plays a central role. In particular, there is a need for research into the further development of process routes according to technological, ecological, economic and social criteria. The competence cluster Recycling & Green Battery (greenBatt) addresses these challenges in 15 research projects. This article presents overarching solution approaches and project highlights.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 38 | 2022 | Edition 1 | Pages 12-16 | DOI 10.30844/I40M_22-1_12-16
Integrated Energy and Maintenance Management in Context of Industry 4.0

Integrated Energy and Maintenance Management in Context of Industry 4.0

Verbesserte Energieeffizienz und Instandhaltung durch Smart Devices und energieautarke kabellose Sensoren
Benjamin Neef, Christopher Schulze, Christoph Herrmann, Sebastian Thiede
Systematic identification and comprehensible evaluation of process improvements are difficult to implement in current complex production systems. However, the ongoing digitalisation of production systems provides better opportunities to analyse and to identify energy improvement measurements and actual maintenance needs. To achieve these objectives an appropriate human-machine interface is necessary to present user-specific conditioned machine data within the scope of action of the desired user. Modern mobile devices provide a wide range of communication possibilities and computing power to setup a perfectly designed ergonomic human-machine interface.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 33 | 2017 | Edition 1 | Pages 34-38
Life Cycle Oriented Design of Lean Production Systems

Life Cycle Oriented Design of Lean Production Systems

Ein systemischer Ansatz für die Entwicklung schlanker Produktionssysteme
Christoph Herrmann, Lars Bergmann
The need to continuously adapt production systems to changing market conditions has dramatically increased during the last years. In particular small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are faced with the challenge to develop lean production systems and often struggle to identify and apply appropriate production system design methods. This paper presents a concept that supports SME to identify suitable production system design principles and methods and to implement lean production systems with respect to strategy, product life cycle phases and external change drivers.
Industrie Management | Volume 23 | 2007 | Edition 3 | Pages 11-15