Manufacturing
Thanks to an efficient middle class, the industrial production in Germany represents a central part of the national added value. New requirements constantly challenge the innovative strength and flexibility of companies. These changes in a globalized world require increased digitization efforts, especially on the part of SMEs, in order to maintain or even expand their position.
The transformation of traditional production systems and processes through digitization pursues many different goals. Examples include increasing the efficiency of individual processes or production steps of a production line or the efficient interaction of different individual systems, as well as optimizing availability through predictive maintenance or improving quality through error detection in workpiece production.
The share of information and communication technologies in innovations is constantly increasing. Data about products and production must be collected and processed. Analyses of this data - e.g. using artificial intelligence - automatically lead to changes in processes. Last but not least, people must continue to be integrated into production in such a way that they can fully develop their strengths.
OFFIS as designer
Our institute's broad spectrum of ICT expertise has already provided a wide range of answers to questions relating to industrial production in the past. We are currently experiencing increasing demand from companies that are constantly facing new challenges. The production division of OFFIS deals with the manifold research questions that arise from the increasing introduction of digitization into industrial production. OFFIS will thus transfer the acquired ICT competences for industry 4.0 from practice-oriented research into the economy so that it can actively participate in shaping the digital transformation.
Concrete applications
We have classified our concrete applications of the division Manufacturing's ICT-Research and -Development in the following R&D-Groups:
Persons 
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Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez
E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66
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Dr.-Ing. Sandra Drolshagen
E-Mail: Sandra.Drolshagen(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-713, Room: Flx-P
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Dr. rer. nat. Frank Oppenheimer
E-Mail: frank.oppenheimer(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-285, Room: Flx-P
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Dr. Ing. Alexandra Pehlken
E-Mail: alexandra.pehlken(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-712, Room: Flx-P
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Dr. rer. nat. Tim Claudius Stratmann
E-Mail: Tim.Stratmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-431, Room: Flx-P
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Projects
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ACME 4.0
Selbstadaptierbare Sensorsysteme für eine Akustische Zustandsüberwachung in Industrie-4.0-Anwendungen (sorry - only available in german)
Duration: 2016 - 2019 AVKVIN
Abfallverbrennungskessel 4.0 - Digitalisierung und ganzheitliche Betriebscharakterisierung von Dampferzeugern in Abfallverbrennungskraftwerken
Duration: 2020 - 2023C
CIRC-UITS
Circular Integration of independent Reverse supply Chains for the smart reUse of IndusTrially relevant Semiconductors
Duration: 2023 - 2025 E
EDNA
Edge Datenwirtschaft in der nachhaltigen automatisierten Fertigungswirtschaft
Duration: 2022 - 2026G
Publications
2026
Potential of digital tools for sustainability reporting
Tobias Hoiten, Maria Fernanda Davila Restrepo, Alexandra Pehlken; 01 / 2026
Sustainability and Circularity Assessment & Advisory Methodologies and Services
Alessandro Fontana, Siro Dell’Ambrogio, Veronica Dosi, Simone Fasola, Giuseppe Landolfi, Christian Trisolini, Antoinette van Schaik, Markus A. Reuter, Lisa Dawel and Alexandra Pehlken; 01 / 2026
The Development of a Circularity Toolbox for sustainable Product Design
Lisa Dawel, Mattia Calabresi, Francesca Lazzari, Aleksandr Bystrov, Ole Meyer, Felix Schmedes, Antoinette van Schaik, Julien van Damme, Markus A. Reuter, Alexandra Pehlken; 01 / 2026
2025
A novel method for listing all collision-free carrier arrangements of maypole braiding machines
Jan Elmar Krauskopf and Andreas Rauh and Andreas Hein; Journal of Industrial Textiles; 2025
An Open-Source Safety Monitor Co-Processor for RISC-V Leveraging Contract-Based Design and Configurable Monitors
Frank Oppenheimer, Jörg Walter, Sven Mehlhop; Mai / 2025
Application of Matrix Completion Techniques on LCA Data for Different Recycling Scenarios for Parts of Professional Data Centers
Dawel, Lisa and Schmedes, Felix and Fernando Penaherrera and Pehlken, Alexandra; Procedia CIRP; 2025
Bewertung von Edge-Cloud-Systemen - Vorgehen, Instrumente; Metriken
Alt, Bast, Babel, Buitmann, Creutz, Dartmann, Ehaus, Engel, Gast, Großesse, Guldner, Jahnke, Jilg, Körner, Leskow, Mundorf, Naumann, Pehlken, Schacht, Schick, Schlagenhauf, Schultheis, Schörner, Straub, Strüker, Traphöner, Weiher; Juni / 2025
Cyber-Sicherheit in vernetzten Lieferketten
Kallisch, Jonas and Voss, Marvin and Runge, Maxim and Wunck, Christoph and Niemann, Karl-Heinz; Giesserei - Die Zeitschrift für Technik, Innovation und Management; 2025
Digitalisierung im Brownfield Cyber-Sicherheit in vernetzten Lieferketten
Kallisch, Jonas; Voß Marvin; Runge, Maxim; Wunck, Christoph; Niemann, Karl-Heinz; Giesserei; 04 / 2025
Discrete simulation of maypole braiding machines to create collision-free braiding programmes
Jan Elmar Krauskopf and Andreas Rauh and Andreas Hein; Heliyon; 2 / 2025
