Peter Ebbesmeyer

• Senior Expert at Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design

Der Technologietransfer aus dem Spitzencluster it’s OWL ist ein Erfolgsmodell. In 171 Transferprojekten konnten – insbesondere kleine und mittlere – Unternehmen in den vergangenen drei Jahren neue Technologien nutzen, um ihre Produkte und Produktionsverfahren zu optimieren. Die Rückmeldungen sind hervorragend: 74% der Unternehmen sind mit dem Proje...

The digital transformation affects all parts of industrial value creation. Major levers are the collection and usage of digital data, the interlinking of formerly independent systems and a transition from traditional products to integrated product-service systems. It is characterized by significant changes of business processes resulting in dynamic...

In the technology network it’s OWL (Intelligent Technical Systems OstWestfalenLippe), global market and technology leaders in mechanical engineering, electronics and electrical engineering, along with the automotive supply industry, pool their strengths. They are working together with regional research institutes in developing new technologies for...

Products and manufacturing systems from mechanical engineering and its related industrial sectors like automotive engineering are getting more and more complex. Time to market is decreasing simultaneously. Under these circumstances the product creation process is facing extraordinary requirements. The product creation process ranges from the initia...

Kurzfassung Die Entwicklung der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik eröffnet faszinierende Perspektiven für den Maschinenbau: mechatronische Systeme mit inhärenter Teilintelligenz. Hierfür wird der Begriff „Selbstoptimierung“ verwendet. Selbstoptimierende Systeme reagieren autonom und flexibel auf sich ändernde Umfeldbedingungen. Sie sind lernf...

Due to the rapid development of information technology, novel prospects arise for mechanical engineering: systems with inherent partial intelligence. To describe that kind of intelligent systems, we use the term of self-optimization. Self-optimizing systems are able to react autonomously and flexibly to changing environmental conditions. They are c...

Recent advances have shown, that the base technology of augmented reality have matured the point of being usable only by specialists. But existing augmented reality applications are still prototypes. They are developed without any authoring system, only by software experts. To support the wide use of augmented reality technology, the designers of a...

Today in aircraft and automotive industry highly complex products are manufactured. For the assembly of those complex products specialized and long trained employees are necessary to guarantee a consitent high quality of products. To reduce the training time and to allow even untrained employees the assembly of e.g. a car engine a dedicated concept...

For the development of new automobile lighting systems, special raytracing methods are needed to create physically correct simulations of the illumination properties. For further evaluation, test drives with physical prototypes are still necessary. But changing weather and lighting conditions make the test drive results not fully comparable. Theref...

This work describes the conception and prototypic implementation of a program to simulate the dynamics within a rail-based undercarriage in real time. A software library for real time simulation of multibody systems (MBS) and a library to create Virtual Reality (VR) applications, function as a basis for this work. The main emphasis lies on the inte...

This paper describes the development of an AR-based hard- and software system for a mobile digital assistant (AR-PDA). Target group for using this system is the large group of consumers. Here the AR-PDA uses AR technology to efficiently support users during their daily tasks. The technical realization of the system is based on 3rd generation video...

This paper provides an overview of the possibilities for using virtual reality technology in engineering applications. It concentrates on the planning and design of manufacturing processes and plants as well as facility planning. Modern design tools like simulation technology are introduced and it is discussed how these tools can be used in combina...

During the development of the European Pressurized Water Reactor Project (EPR)—an innovative design concept for a new type of pressurized water reactor-large amounts of up-to-date engineering data (i.e., CAD data, planning documentation) have to be made available to all international project partners for presentation and development. This paper des...

The European Pressurized Water Reactor Project (EPR) is based on an innovative design concept for a new type of pressurized water reactor. The development of this concept will be carried out by a consortium of international partners and customers based in Germany and France. During the development of the EPR large amounts of up-to-date engineering...

The work presented in this paper is part of a Virtual Reality Research Project of the Heinz Nixdorf Institut and the Siemens AG KWU.

We describe DesiRe, a Design Review system based on virtual reality technology. DesiRe is a production virtual reality system that is used to support design review processes during the development of The European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR). This paper starts with a brief description of the EPR project. We then focus on the design review proces...

In the planning and design of complex production plants. Considerable savings in terms of time and expense can be achieved by employing virtual reality technology in the planning and design of complex plants. The following article uses the development of the new European pressurized-water reactor by an international consortium to illustrate the pos...

This paper describes CYBERBIKES, a real-time simulation of an enterprise that produces bicycles. The system is designed as a virtual environment. It is based on a realistic 3-D model of an industrial enterprise coupled with the representation and control of production processes. Furthermore, the flow of information like production data is visualize...

Presents a new approach for using texture-mapped quadrilaterals as approximate representations for objects that are far away from the viewpoint. The method is suited for interactive visualization of complex indoor environments such as CAD models of large plants. In a pre-processing stage, the 3D model is partitioned by virtual walls. These virtual...

This paper describes CYBERBIKES, a real-time simulation of an enterprise that produces bicycles. The system is designed as a virtual environment. It is based on a realistic 3-D model of an industrial enterprise coupled with the representation and control of production processes. Furthermore, the flow of information like production data is visualize...

The realistic modeling of automatized manufacturing processes is part of the project Virtual Enterprise. Central issue of the project is the functional and shape oriented representation of a typical industrial enterprise. Based on the main business processes, the Virtual Enterprise displays the internal relations and information flows between the d...

Das Projekt „Virtuelles Modellunternehmen“ hat zum Ziel, ein Industrieunternehmen mit seinen Leistungserstellungsprozessen anschaulich zu modellieren. Es werden die.Arbeitsplätze in den verschiedenen Funktionsbereichen und ihr Zusammenwirken realitätsnah dargestellt. Der Aufbau des Virtuellen Modellunternehmens orientiert sich an den Hauptgeschäfts...