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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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
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. 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
2025
WeR3t-Netze
Regionale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke für Resilienz und Ressourcenschonung
Duration: 2025 - 2026 PARMa
Proaktive Steigerung der Anpassungsfähigkeit produzierender Unternehmen durch agiles Resilienz-Management
Duration: 2025 - 20272024
Publications
2026
ClaRO: A Cluster-Based Method for Radar Odometry
Furuno, Eike and Megarajan, Pranav and Kowalski, Christian and Stratmann, Tim C. and Pfingsthorn, Max and Hein, Andreas; IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; 2026
Comparing Vertical Federated Learning Frameworks in Manufacturing Supply Chains
Kallisch, J. Marx Gómez, J.; Recent Advances in Information Systems; 04 / 2026
Data-Driven Prediction of Casting Defects in Magnesium High-Pressure Die Casting Using Machine Learning
Pachandrin, S., Kallisch, J., Hoffmann, N., Dilger, K. et al.; International Journal of Metalcasting ; 01 / 2026
Forging Robust Building Blocks for Next-Gen RISC-V Chips: Virtual Repository and IP Card
Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu, Francesco Conti, Cairo Caplan, Holger Schmidt, Wolfgang Ecker, Rob Wullems, Patrick Pype, Tiberio Fanti, Davide Schiavone, Dominik Baumann, Alexandru Pușcașu, Răzvan Stancu, Octavian Buiu, Sven Mehlhop, Jörg Walter, Frank Oppenheimer, Gianvito Urgese, Teodoro Urso, Reoberto Bosio, Alessio Burrello, George Suciu, Mari-Anais Sachian, Nicoleta Capbun, Robert Florescu, Simona Costinescu, Ambily Suresh, Florian Lorber, Honorius Galmeanu, Mihai Munteanu, Szilard Hegedus, Darshak Sheladiya, Florian Krebs, Henrik Theiling, Mattia Paladino, Daniele Gregori, Federico Proverbio, Jan Kastil, Alexander Schober, Rainer Buchty, Mladen Berekovic, Amrit Sharma Poudel, Saleh Mulhem, Emanuele Valpreda, Andrea Zunino, Luigi Feola, Samuel Matea, Cosmin Moisa, Perian Cristian, Andrei Stan, Alexandru-Tudor Popovici, Cosmin-Andrei Popovici, George-Emil Vieriu, Daniel Gracia Pérez, Sylvain Girbal, Jérôme Quèvremont, André Sintzoff, Fatma Jebali, Caaliph Andriamisaina, Florian Egert, Maurizio Capra, Valerio Venceslai, Francesco De Maldé, Maria Elena D'Agostino, Gabriele Magnani, Davide Baroffio, Andrea Galimberti, Carlo Brandolese, Costin-Emanuel Vasile, Radu Hobincu, Alexandra-Mihaela Enescu, Calin Bira, Elijah Seth Cishugi, Marco Ottavi, Esther Soriano-Viguer, Ester Lopez-Mora, Vicente Nicolau-Gallego, Odysseas Chatzopoulos, Vasileios Karakostas, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Iakovos Mavroidis, Sallar Ahmadi-Pour, Rolf Drechsler, Jaume Abella, Sergi Alcaide, Frederik Haxel, Federico Peccia, Jonathan Schröter, Arefeh Mahdavi, Stefan Wallentowitz, Felix Mai, Angelo Garofalo, Davide Rossi, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Hassan Loulou, Francois Clement, Saad Saleh, Paul Detterer, Gert-Jan van Schaik, Nils Wistoff, Luca Benini, Tianhai Liu, James J. Hunt, Andreas Vörg, Philipp van Kempen, Johannes Geier, Ulf Schlic; 29th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD); Sep / 2026
Integrating Critical Raw Materials into Life Cycle Assessment using a New Dynamic Material Assessment Tool
Ole Meyer and Naila Rana Andira and Fernando Andres Penaherrera Vaca and Alexandra Pehlken; Procedia CIRP; 2026
Modeling service choreographies and collaborations for autonomous mixed-fleet systems: using BPMN, IEC 61499, and SysML
Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Jörg Walter, David Hästbacka ; Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering; 06 / 2026
Potential of digital tools for sustainability reporting
Tobias Hoiten, Maria Fernanda Davila Restrepo, Alexandra Pehlken; 01 / 2026
Requirements for Using Federated Learning in Manufacturing Supply Chains
Kallisch, Jonas and Gómez, Jorge Marx; Engineering and Management of Data Science; 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
