Projects and products of ILT department

WALKER is an application for creating route maps for the protection of cultural property and offers an accessible solution to help museums prepare for disasters.

In the ECHOES project, we are exploring the Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH), a shared platform that provides cultural heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scholarly resources, training, and advanced digital tools tailored to their needs.

A project of the same name aims to harness our experience across a whole host of AI application domains to realize MLOps with maximum effectiveness and automate it as far as possible. To that end a software suite was developed that incorporates a wide range of tools for creating machine learning applications and training the ML models.

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is coming—and many SMEs are facing major hurdles. Our Fraunhofer teams at IOSB, IIS, and ISST are developing a smart solution to address this: semi-automated DPP creation, secure data room access, and clear added value for companies. This turns the DPP into a real competitive advantage.

Easily utilize industrial data spaces: The Data Space Consumer from Fraunhofer IOSB automates secure, sovereign data exchange—covering everything from searching for data sources, identity verification, and contract negotiation to the actual transfer. This modular, open-source solution lowers technical barriers to entry and integrates flexibly into existing system landscapes.

"Several Fraunhofer Institutes are collaboratively developing a data space solution for the independent and interoperable exchange of PCF data across borders."

In the lighthouse project Factory-X, an open and collaborative data ecosystem for factory outfitters and operators is being developed on the basis of Catena-X and concepts of the Industry 4.0 platform. Fraunhofer IOSB is involved in or leading a number of use cases.

Faster set-up and changeover: In the project, consistent plug-and-work capability was achieved in production-related software components - using the AutomationML and OPC UA standards. In the process, non-I4.0-communication-capable components are also retrofitted with I4.0 features.

Whether you’re a pioneer from industry, an SME, a skilled-trades business, the municipal or government sector, or an emergency services organization: As the Fraunhofer IOSB’s Humanoid Robots Experience Lab (HREL), we offer you low-threshold, hands-on access to humanoid robotics.

Keeping carbon in the cycle, and thus avoiding plastic waste and emissions: That is the goal of the “Waste4Future” project. Several Fraunhofer institutes and facilities IMWS, IZFP, IWKS, IOSB, FHR, LBF and IVV are pooling their competences to develop an entropy-based assessment model for carbon-containing waste streams and new technologies for sensing, sorting and mechanical and chemical recycling.

The Karlsruher Forschungsfabrik for AI-integrated production offers the special opportunity to research and develop the topic of “Intelligent Production” in a practical way on real processes.

As part of the joint project iTEXFer, we are developing an expandable Industry 4.0 construction kit specifically tailored to the textile industry.

Our Connector combines the benefits of Industrie 4.0 and International Data Spaces for interoperable, trusted and controlled data exchange.

The aim of the H2020 project is the digital management of production capacities for the development of flexible supply chains between consumers and producers - especially for rapid response to pandemics.

Understanding real traffic - safeguarding automated mobility. The safe introduction of highly and fully automated vehicles depends crucially on how well we can digitally map today's traffic events - especially critical situations. AVEAS develops scalable, data protection-compliant methods for systematically recording and modeling risk-relevant scenarios and transferring them to virtual test environments.

The FA³ST Ecosystem is a practical, open and extensible solution for companies to efficiently use asset administration shells and drive innovation in the area of digital twins and data-driven business models.

Cyber resilience is seen as the next step in IT security and focuses primarily on incident response and restoring process capability. Appropriate monitoring of process-carrying automation systems and infrastructures is necessary to achieve cyber resilience.

The bi0SpaCE project is developing an open software framework for creating dynamic digital product passports (DPPs) in the form of digital twins in the Industrie 4.0 standard (Asset Administration Shell, VS) for bio-based products. It promotes secure, sovereign data exchange in international data spaces and supports the creation of efficient solutions in the circular economy to increase the sustainability and competitiveness of European bio-based industries.

The GDS is a Fraunhofer IOSB implementation for managing OPC UA applications and their certificate management.

OpenCitySense is an expandable framework for municipalities and operators of urban data platforms. With the OGC standard SensorThingsAPI of the FROST® server for time- and location-related data, sensor landscapes can be set up in a structured manner. OpenCitySense expands the server to include sensor and data monitoring and lifecycle management of sensors, from initial setup to the operational phase and uninstallation.