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“Go Beyond 4.0” Lighthouse Project

Individualized mass production

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Industry’s need for new technologies to provide differentiation and efficiency gains in production is the driving force of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to pool competencies in order to provide technologies for success. The thus far rigid mass production will in future gain new impetus through digital manufacturing technologies such as inkjet printing and laser-based techniques, in particular. The integration of digital manufacturing technologies into a range of mass production environments will permit individualized production with zero setup times and only slightly increased cycle times.

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Otto, T. (2019). “Go Beyond 4.0” Lighthouse Project. In: Neugebauer, R. (eds) Digital Transformation. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58134-6_13

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