SynDiQuAss - »Synchronisation of digitalisation, quality assurance and assistance systems«

In the project's first step, the research partners of Fraunhofer IGCV and Augsburg University of Applied Sciences determined the requirements for the workplaces of the industrial partners. How can these be synchronised and redesigned?

The evaluation was followed by the construction of a demonstrator to test the assistance systems. In particular, it was investigated which production parameters, worker skills or cross-process interactions must be considered when dimensioning the system.

This step was followed by the construction of a test workplace where the optimal synchronisation of digitalisation, assistance and quality assurance was developed for the workplaces desired by the company. Here, the interests and requirements of the company and its employees were in the foreground - the workplace should take up and combine individual needs.

Subsequently, the model was transferred into practice - it was a matter of concretising the findings from the first step: Establishing the new workplace in the partner companies. The trial operation enabled the optimisation of the assistance systems.

One example: At the research partner »Schwaben Präzision«, the assembly of different gearbox lot sizes is to be made more efficient and easier. After installing demonstrators and trying them out at a test workplace, new assistance systems have been developed over the last three years that enable employees to assemble complex mechatronic product groups more quickly. In addition, the space requirement could be reduced and the design of the production lines is now more flexible.

After the successful transfer to the companies, the focus was on processing the project results. The results obtained offer great potential for the economic region of Swabia.

SMEs benefit directly from the assistance systems developed by Fraunhofer IGCV: work is made more accessible and digitalisation is used optimally - in the future workplace.