Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: automotive industry
  • Headcount: ~ 275.000
    production planning: ~ 4.200
  • Expertise / products: wide range of vehicles as well as globally spread production plants

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • OEM / automotive manufacturer, plant operator
  • Contribution:
    • Consortium manager (national & international)
    • Experience in digital planning methods, development and validation of automated production systems
    • Head of WP6 "evaluation based on demonstrators" & WP8 "project management"

Contact:

Dr. Thomas Bär


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Automation engineering
  • Headcount: ~ 16.200
  • Expertise / products: Systems and components for drive- and control-technologies

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Component supplier in the field of automation engineering
  • Contribution:
    • Drive components for demonstrator, samples of models including automation components
    • Requirements of component manufacturer
    • Configuration of behaviour model for "VIBN"
    • Support simulation data for integration scenario

Contact:

Bernd Kärcher


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Applied research
  • Headcount:51 employees
    as well as about 40 students and guest scientists
  • Expertise / products: ICT & automation, environment & transport, non-contact energy transfer, sensor systems

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Research & development
  • Contribution:
    • Lifecycle management
    • Model-based test generation and execution
    • Physics-based production equipment simulation
      • Description technologies
      • Comparison of test & simulation results

Contact:

Dr. Matthias Riedl


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: automotive industry
  • Headcount: ~ 2600
    ~ 80 EKS InTec GmbH
  • Expertise / products:design, simulation, virtual commissioning of production equipment and software development (RFSuite, INVISION)

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Engineering services
  • Contribution:
    • Integrate project experience to AVANTI
    • Definition of a consistent infrastructure
    • Development of a consistent workflow
    • Validation of individual steps of the WPs for virtual commissioning
    • Execution of virtual commissioning on the demonstrator

Contact:

Holger Hämmerle


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Production engineering, automotive, logistics, factory planning, consumer goods industry
  • Headcount: 15
  • Expertise / products: Development and integration of software for planning, animation, simulation and visualization

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Planning & concept phase
  • Contribution:
    • Add experiences with AML & VR-solutions and their interfaces
    • Add and adapt the software: taraVRbuilder, -optimizer and -control

Contact:

Herbert Beesten


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: automotive, aerospace, healthcare, energy
  • Headcount: ~ 230
  • Expertise / products: research and development of intelligent solutions to technical problems

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Innovation & development services
  • Contribution:
    • Development of physical models for individual components of the production system
    • Add experience in methods of model-based execution
    • Plug-in development for smooth data exchange in the CAx process chain

Contact:

Dr. Markus Pfeil


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Production engineering
  • Headcount: 12
  • Expertise / products: transport & storage systems, production systems for special machines, handling systems, mechanical engineering, commissioning

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Hardware supplier
  • Contribution:
    • Sourcing, production and commissioning of a demonstrator
    • Test execution of automated screw driving process (positioning, screwing, measuring and documentation)

Contact:

Michael Alhäuser


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Metal industry
  • Headcount: 577
  • Expertise / products: gear manufacturer, power transmission solutions, wind energy, pulp and paper, mining industry, comprehensive services for the overhaul, maintenance and remote management of gears.

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • End-user
  • Contribution:
    • Specification and description of behaviour models
    • Physical demonstrator to validate simulation environment
    • Lubrication and cooling environment of mechanical drivetrain of a wind turbine

Contact:

Jari Toikkanen


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Research and education
  • Headcount: ∾ 2.000
  • Expertise / products: Conducts scientific research in technology and architecture and provides the highest education within these fields

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • National Project Coordinator /Administration/ Liaison
  • Contribution:
    • National Consortium Coordinator
    • Contact point for the software related work
    • Experience: ICT for manufacturing. Modelling, tools development, validation
  • Subcontractor for Moventas Gears Oy

Contact:

Anne Korhonen


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Durable consumer goods industry
  • Headcount: ∾ 25.000
  • Expertise / products: Arçelik A.Ş. is the undisputed leader of home appliances sector in Turkey, Romania and South Africa, the third largest company of its sector in Europe.

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Durable consumer goods production, marketing and after sales services
  • Contribution:
    • Arçelik, as the end user of the project, will provide one case study for the operation and testing of automation systems
    • Head of WP7 Task 7.2 Exploitation

Contact:

Mrs. Belgin Akkafa


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: Defence, Aerospace, Simulation
  • Headcount: 38
  • Expertise / products: Software development and systems integration capabilities in terrain database modeling, visual and military simulation systems. Offers solutions in a wide variety of simulation applications, ranging from engineering, platform simulators and part task trainers to virtual maintenance trainers.

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Simulation-Systems developer
  • Contribution:
    • Turkish consortium leader
    • Core group member

Contact:

Erhan Kara


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Corporate data

  • Industrial sector: non-profit institution of higher education
  • Headcount: 4416
  • Expertise / products: Research and education

Role in AVANTI

  • Value-chain position:
    • Research & Development: Modelling & Design
  • Contribution:
    • State of the art and technology assessment
    • Physics-based modelling and simulation for WP3
    • Publishing project results at international journals and conference proceedings
    • Use project results and components for educational ad research purposes

Contact:

Cagatay Basdogan


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