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EnAS - Projekt (Energieautarke Aktor- und Sensorsysteme)
Future production plants will consist of independent, flexibly configurable production cells, which work largely autonomously. The digitally configurable production plant arises from virtual, simulation supported factory planning. In this project new technologies are developed, which are required for the implementation of these concepts.
The efficiency and reliability of industrial production plants largely depend on the availability of various information. Nowadays, this information which, for example, concerns material flow, maintenance parameters or production parameters, are usually collected by wired sensors. Because of wiring, there are restrictions as follows:
- Flexibility (reorganizations, expansions)
- Field of application (vehicles, mobile or rotating parts)
- Availability of the information (only at the end of the cable)
These restrictions could be overcome by using radio to data transmission, whereas radio connection should not be understood only as a cable substitute. There are also improvements according to costs and quality. In addition, processes can be automated where nowadays the usage of cables is not possible because of boundary conditions, for example high temperatures in power stations. Thereby completely new markets can be developed.
Automation systems which are integrated into a network according to this new principle also require innovative control systems, which are flexible, reconfigurable and distributed. On this topic, Festo and the University of Halle-WIttenberg are working together.
The demonstrator that is used in the project is described here.
Participants of the project: Festo, EnOcean, InTraCoM, FhG-TEG, Universität Halle(Saale), HSU Hamburg, TU Ilmenau
The project is supported by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) .
(Förderkennzeichen: 01 MG 566)