Open Foresight on Blockchain

Within the Open Foresight project Human-Time-Machine, the strategic research department with LCM implements strategic foresight initiatives together with its industrial partners.

The foresight focuses on significant upcoming topics, involves different players from large scale industry to SMEs and emphasises a information flow for a better mutual pictures on the impacts of a future technology or trend.

Service:

• LCM provides its open-foresight services on the topic Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Machine to machine communication (M2M).
• LCM provided its open-foresight services on the topic blockchain.
• LCM concepted, ideated, and consulted internal and external experts on the topics.
• LCM, provides its services in cooperation with its partner institution, the Johannes Kepler University Linz

Relation to Digitization

• Thinking and Exploring technological abilities that digitization brings together with business aspects is key for any take-up in Industry.
• LCM brings together both consideration together with society tendencies, in order to foster company partner's digital strategy decision.

Clients

• voestalpine (48 000 Employees, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voestalpine)
• Engel( 6600 Employees, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel_Austria)
• Greiner AG (10 500 Employees, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greiner_AG)
•  Energie AG (4300 Employees, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energie_AG_Ober%C3%B6sterreich)
• Fagasoft AG (209, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabasoft)
• Oberbank (2000 Employees, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberbank)

Digitial Innovation Hub Robotics

Within the EU-project DIH2, Grant agreement ID: 824964, LCM serves as the Austrian Digital Innovation Hub on Robotics. LCM engages regional and local SME and general relevant stakeholders, and provides educational workshop and initiatives. LCM's internal DIH on applied research projects with industry and SMEs together with LCM's close relation to the local university lay the foundation for the profound service offer.

Service offer:

• LCM host B2B match making events, bringing together SMEs and technology providers.
• guides and supports applicants to the DIH² offered funding opportunities.

Relations with Digitization

• LCM fosters, demonstrates and creates awareness on the potential of new digital abilities for the SMEs.

Clients:

• For the services LCM reaches out to its local clients and research network in the area of Upper Austria.

indoor localization

client needs:

• Localization of individuals in retail, industrial or office environments
• Presence detection of persons in certain rooms
• Indoor navigation systems for emergency application
• Asset tracking with accuracies in the meter range

provided solution:

• Use of commercially available smartphones as a mobile, localized device without additional hardware for the user
• Possibility for simultaneous data traffic for the transmission of additional information
• Long battery life of Bluetooth beacons

Digital Twin

Within the DIH research center at LCM we develop digital twin solutions for our customers. In the presented applied research project together with our industry partner, we developed an active digital twin, that was also able to actively modify and change parameters in real time in the production process.

The tool was awared with the HERMES nominee award in 2017.

The tool was developed with our pindustry partner Salvagnini (1 500 employees, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvagnini)

Service

• creating digital representation of physical processes
• developing models and modeling processes that allow new levels of agile production.

Relation to Digitization

• LCM supports its customers by creation digital represenation of physical processes via digital twins. These tools are used for faster design and parameter fitting as needed in agile manufacturing.

Client:

• Most clients are in the are of engineering
• One example for a  digital twin solution is the company Salvagnini

SyMSpace for Industry

LCM hosts its SyMSpace a digital platform and simulation platform for automatic design, with the current lead use case of electrical engines.

With our DIH research center at LCM we support, acquire and conduct joint research projects with our partners forattaching digital tools such as SyMSpace closer to SME and industry needs. As a example we demonstrate a joint cooperation project upon the  EU-project Cloudifacturing, grant number 768892, Funded under H2020-EU.2.1.1.

https://www.cloudifacturing.eu/exp-1-optimizing-design-and-production-of-electric-drives/symspace-center/

 With the simulation and modeling tool SyMSpace, LCM could reduce development time for electrical engines  by significant factors for its partner.

Service:

• LCM provides the abilitiy to speed up design processes by orders magnitude.
• LCM provides a software framework for Knowledge and expertise handling.
• LCM supports and assists in digitally representing expert knowledge.

Relation to Digitization:

• The digitization of expert knowledge is a key element for automated service generation.
• The represnetation of expert knowledge in digital LCM's software libraries are  vital steps towards digital platforms - key elements in digtal economy.

Clients:

• LCM uses the software tool SyMSpace for its clients in the field of electrical engine design and production.
• LCM also has its software available for digital  twin processes, for example for a client in the area of bending machinery.
• LCM opened up its software tools for various research cooperation partners

Coordination of Product Information System in the retail store

The DIH, i.e. the research and development center within LCM coordinated the EU-project ASSET on a digital product assistant for the retail store. The developed ASSET pilot platform is a complexity reduction tool that reduces and prepares product information such that it fits a consumers individual interest. The system is based on a recommender system with transparent property presentation (provided by ETH Zürich).

Service:

• LCM provides overall project coordination and management.
• LCM coordinates and develops the physical and digital interfaces for localization and mapping.
• LCM operates physical field test implementation for feasibility and impact assessment.

Relation to Digitization:

• Linking customers via their specific shop location with virtual products is a special kind of Human Machine Interactions and a particular example of how digitization can be smoothly integrated in everyday shopping routines.

Clients:

The sevices were provided for a consortium consisting of

• Fastline Gmbh & CoKG (Germany), ETH Zürich (Switzerland), Ainia (Spain), KOOP (Estonia), Baltic Innovation Agency (Estonia), VKI (Austria).
• and two retailers KOOP (Estonia) and Winkler Markt (Austria)

SyMSpace for Network of Knowledg Engines

At LCM the technology tool SyMSpace is used for automatic design with a special focus on electrical engines. We have now move the tool to be the platform for generic knowledge handling, where knowledge is available in the form of knowledge engines.

Collecitively a overall functionality called network of Knowledge Engine is created.