The future of the Manufacture

The Micronarc & Manufacture Thinking workshops are the result of a collaborative effort to develop events around the most innovative themes of the moment.

In the form of breakfasts or workshops, these events are led by a specialist, known and recognized in his or her field, and are organized in conjunction with various network partners.

The future is now!

Software for horizontal and vertical integration, until recently presented as the hallmarks of the factory of the future, is now available to all companies. With them, the data that lubricates modern production can be captured, processed and transmitted to achieve optimization in the production sequence, detect and plan maintenance, and ensure traceability. In short, man dominates machine.

For the next stage in increasing productivity, the relationship must evolve into a partnership. Machines, plants and robots need to understand for themselves what they can do, and how they can best help us. MES systems already do some of this, but integration must go even further for the factory of the future.

Speaker

Norman U. Baier obtained his electrical engineering diploma in 2000 and his doctorate in 2005 from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In his thesis, he used neural networks to classify chaotic time series. He then held several positions in industry, before joining the Bern University of Applied Sciences in 2012, as Professor of Control Theory and Mechatronics. In his research, he seeks to integrate industrial robots into the established processes of manufacturing companies.