29.06.2022: New JR Centre at the service of Industry 4.0

In the 1970s, the third industrial revolution based on IT-supported automation enabled greater product diversity through the development of machines optimised for repeatable and fast processes, but this in turn was bought by a diversity of rigid machines that was not very desirable in terms of flexibility: A principle that is no longer sufficient for the current vision of "industry 4.0", which revolves around topics such as personalisation of products and reaching market maturity more quickly, since value chains (which include all steps from the formulation of the product idea to delivery and support of the goods) must increase in complexity accordingly for these objectives.

It is precisely for the development of such autonomous, rapidly adapting and optimising value chains that the JR Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation is researching artificial intelligence in the true sense of the word: Digital assistants that are needed to develop new types of highly complex, industry 4.0-compliant industrial machines shall act rationally in problem situations, as humans would otherwise do, and influence the environment on the basis of received perceptions by relieving and supporting human operators (of injection moulding, milling or filling machines, for example), which can range from recommendations for action to autonomous control of the machines.

Further information on the JR Centre for Intelligent and Secure Industrial Automation

The photo (© FH Salzburg / Neumayr) clearly shows how highly attended the lab opening was – from left to right: Walter Haas (Innovation Salzburg), Raimund Ribitsch (FH Salzburg), CDG President Martin Gerzabek, Head of JR Centre Stefan Huber (FH Salzburg), State Councillor Andrea Klambauer, State Secretary Susanne Kraus-Winkler, Marianne Kusejko (SIGMATEK), Governor Wilfried Haslauer, Jörg Theis (B&R Industrial Automation), Phillip Werr (COPA-DATA)