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ReThink! Smart Manufacturing 2024
Start 23.06.2024 - End 25.06.2024

ReThink! Smart Manufacturing 2024

Rethink! Smart Manufacturing helps leaders in the manufacturing industry to optimize, strengthen and redesign their businesses. At ReThink! Smart Manufacturing 2024, which will take place from June 23-25 in Berlin, visitors can discuss with up to 150 executives how the latest trends and technologies in smart manufacturing, such as factory automation, AI and robotics, are impacting every aspect of business. Take part in the event and secure your ticket today!
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Lieu of a New ERP System

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Lieu of a New ERP System

The reality behind the hype
Norbert Gronau ORCID Icon, Benedict Bender, Clementine Bertheau, Hannah Lauppe
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) stands for the software-supported operation of software solutions via their user interface. The primary goal that RPA seeks to achieve is the automated execution of routine tasks that previously required human intervention. However, the potential of RPA to improve processes in the long term is very limited. Automating processes and bridging front-end media disruptions leads to a variety of dependencies and conditions, which are summarized in this article. The path to a sustainable enterprise architecture (and the processes and systems comprised therein) requires open, adaptive systems with modern architecture that are characterized by a high degree of interoperability at various levels.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 1 | Pages 120-125 | DOI 10.30844/I4SE.23.1.120
The Portal Robot – The Optimization of Logistic Systems by a Worldwide Novelty

The Portal Robot - The Optimization of Logistic Systems by a Worldwide Novelty

Optimierung logistischer Prozesse durch eine Weltneuheit
Stephan Tank, Wolfgang Echelmeyer
Continuity and reliability in the fully automated unloading process are the greatest strengths of the new “portal robot”, a logistics system worldwide unique. Its task is unloading cubic goods out of containers or swap bodies. The robot is working with a stable process safety and high process speed. It may be used in combination with various logistic systems. When integrated early, possibly in the stadium of planning new centres of distribution, the realisation can become yet more profitable.
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 2 | Pages 13-16
Adaptive Production Systems – A Future Concept for European Manufacturing

Adaptive Production Systems - A Future Concept for European Manufacturing

Ein zukunftssicheres Konzept für die Europäische Produktion
Bernard Favre-Bulle, Alois Zoitl
The future of manufacturing industries in Europe is currently a topic for frequent discussions. Competitors from Far East dominate the international markets with low-price products. Outsourcing of manufacturing tasks from Europe to far-east countries is a common practice in the case of commodity products. Will the European economy be able to absorb the resulting losses also in the near future? Experts don’t think so. A study conducted by the Institute for Automation and Control, Vienna University of Technology and the Society for the Promotion and Modernisation of Production Technologies in Austria shows new perspectives with the concept of Adaptive Production
Industrie Management | Volume 22 | 2006 | Edition 2 | Pages 45-48