Industrial IoT partnership
Aventics joined Lemgo-based research and development centre Centrum Industrial IT (CIIT) as a strategic partner over a year ago.
The combined forces of an association and research community allows Aventics to informally discuss ideas and try them out right away in the close-by SmartFactoryOWL, the Lemgo research and demonstration factory of the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA and the OWL University of Applied Sciences.
For Aventics, CIIT is the ideal partner for developing solutions in line with the market within the context of the Industrial Internet of Things. The pneumatics specialists, on the other hand, round off the research community's portfolio.
Aventics has already finished two projects at the CIIT. Together with the local Fraunhofer Institute, Aventics conducted a study as to how the company can optimally implement the Industrial Internet of Things.
"Fraunhofer has changed our view of the market with pneumatics components to include economic aspects, moving more towards energy-efficiency, preventive maintenance, and increased production availability," Wolf Gerecke, director strategic product management at Aventics, said.
In a second project, Aventics collaborated with Boge Kompressoren, introduced by CIIT. Boge hoped to develop an intelligent compressed air network with its compressors, and Aventics had the perfect pneumatics.
Follow-up projects with CIIT are already in the pipeline: anomaly detection at the component level and concepts for integrating components of different makes into networked systems.
