Circular Factory for the Perpetual Innovative Product
I have been involved in CRC 1574 “Circular Factory for the Perpetual Product” from an early stage, initially as the working group leader of the Changeable Autonomous Production Systems group. In that role, I coordinated the automation-related activities on the shop floor and helped align the technical work across the different contributors involved in building the circular production demonstrators.
Within the CRC, I am also responsible for the Transformer Cell, a robot-based manufacturing system that is intended to autonomously reconfigure itself and autonomously plan and execute assembly, disassembly, and reprocessing steps. This system captures much of what makes the CRC unique for me: bringing together modular automation, intelligent planning, and circular manufacturing in one adaptive production environment.
Later, I took on the role of research coordinator for the entire collaborative research center. In this position, I coordinate research activities across the full cluster and help connect the different disciplines contributing to the vision of an integrated circular factory. The project brings together production technology, robotics, computer science, knowledge modelling, ergonomics, and materials research to enable industrial-scale circular production systems.
