Chair of Materials and Surface Engineering
Materials and Surface Engineering
Chair of Materials and Surface Engineering 

Specialist discussion in the production process at Vitesco Technologies


As part of the REDUCE project, employees from the Human-Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPS) department took part in a technical discussion in the production halls of Vitesco Technologies (VT) in Limbach-Oberfrohna on 27 February 2024. The BMBF-funded joint project REDUCE (Resource Efficiency Derived from User Centered Engineering in Industrial Production) aims to significantly reduce resource consumption in industrial production, which is to be achieved through human-centred digitalisation measures and a transdisciplinary solution approach.

A human-machine interface with visualisations to save resources will be researched, designed and tested at VT by summer 2025. The tour of the facilities was the basis for identifying a suitable application for the interface demonstrator as well as a good opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the work process on test lines and to engage in intensive discussions with VT employees about the potential for saving resources in production. In the next step, a cognitive task and requirements analysis will systematically describe the work and process sequences of human actors in order to derive digital support through visualisations and behaviour-related options for action to reduce consumption.

We would like to thank the employees of Vitesco Technologies for the interesting insights into the production process and look forward to continuing our work together!

 

Picture: Employees of WOT and VT in the production halls of VT (Photo: private)

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