"A warm welcome to productronica 2017.The
special shows here are a big highlight – because
that'swhere you can experience electronics
manufacturing live!"
"Founded in April 2017: the research fab Microelectronics
Germany. This is where research capacities
all over the country are bundled together
and connected, to give the fab more weight
internationally as a centre for microelectronics."
"Ah, Dr. Olowinsky. Hello!"
"Laser microwelding. What exactly are we looking
at here?"
"Laser microwelding is an established method
in electronics and precision engineering for
creating electrical and mechanical connections.Here
you can see a laser beam melting material
– and that's what creates the connection.
In this particular version, the laser head
contains the beam guidance, beam forming and
mechanical pressing combined, for a flexible
manufacturing process."
"And what are the areas of application?"
"What you see here: classic battery technology, production of battery modules and packs,
production of electrical connections, all
the way to printed circuit board technology,
because we need to create connections there
too."
"Dr. Olowinsky, thanks a lot!"
"From microelectronics to the special show
devoted to hardware data mining.With me now
is Ulf Oestermann, business developer at Fraunhofer
IZM. Good morning!"
"Mr. Oestermann, what's the connection between
microelectronics and hardware data mining?"
"The research fab Microelectronics Germany is
supposed to develop technologies and processes
for the future. And they then have to be ported
into mass production and scaled, so that they're
ready to use there. That's exactly what hardware
data mining is all about – showing what
data records accumulate at what location in
the individual process steps, and how robust
they have to be in order to be used."
"So we're talking about 'digging' data? Can
we take a closer look?"
"Sure. No problem."
"Based on the data matrix code, you can immediately
establish when this subassembly was manufactured,
at what temperature, and in what humidity,
and then conclusions can be drawn about possible
errors."
"I guess it helps save on resources – only
having to replace individual components?"
"It's showing how thick wire is bonded. A
very, very large number of wires are needed
to get a high current density in the contact."
"Mr. Oestermann, thanks very much for the
tour. Hardware data mining. I'm going to the
VDMA now to see what's being done with the
data. And you? Back to work?"
"That's right!"
"Ok - thanks. Ciao!
We've just mined and collected the data. The
data has to go somewhere, it has to be processed.
And that brings me to the special show of
the VDMA: "Smart-Data-Future Manufacturing."
"With me now is Mr. Müller from the VDMA.
I've just taken a look round your stand. There's
a lot of data being generated here. What's
going to be done with it?"
"In the next stage, it's simply stored in
various cloud systems, to make the long-term
data actually usable. For models, for instance
– like predictive maintenance."
"Smart Data. How do you see the future of
that?"
"A very exciting future topic is machine learning
- where companies try to make machines learn.
So they can avoid errors, or correct them,
all by themselves."
"Wow. Thank you very much, Mr. Müller!
Smart Data Future Manufacturing – it'sa
topic we're going to keep a close eye on.
Well, that's all from productronica 2017.
I'm already looking forward to 2019! Goodbye!"
