Abstract: Product data contains one of the most valuable assets of a company - intellectual property (IP). Knowledge-based engineering techniques are applied today in order to improve the product development. Thus, company specific product and process know-how is integrated into CAD data as formula, material specification, manufacturing information and so on. Furthermore, essential information, e.g., process knowledge is available in non-CAD documents. The context of cross-company product development necessitates the exchange of data with different companies, for instance, competitors. Exchanging data in such a network increases the risk of know-how being theft. The internet and sovereign privacy laws have been on a collision course for long time now, with growing tensions arising in all jurisdictions. Thus, appropriate organisational and technical protection concepts and means are necessary. This paper presents intelligent ways to protect know-how without preventing the intended information flow. It presents practical methods and processes for; planning, implementing and using enterprise right management (ERM) in a cross-company context. Furthermore, this paper defines essential prerequisites to broaden ERM in the automotive industry.

Abstract: The conceptual model of robotic cultivation and integrated processing of mushrooms was designed as a fully automatic installation with a modular structure and multiple workflows, which are compulsory for continuous production of organic fruiting bodies belonging to edible and medicinal mushrooms in fully aseptic conditions, with complete elimination of any human operator along the overall production chain. Starting from the thermo-sterilization of heat-resistant plastic bags filled with nutritive substrates, then going through robotic inoculation with liquid mycelium, and continuing the cultivation flow through mushroom incubation and fruit body formation inside sterilized and inoculated bags, which were placed in special growth rooms (with fully controlled atmosphere and robotic manipulation devices), the biotechnological process was designed to be finished by automatic crop harvesting of mushroom fruit bodies and aseptic removal of bags containing the exhausted substrates used for cultivation.

Abstract: 3-D-Druck und Bionik erobern neue Anwendungen im Pkw. Edag hat eine Kombination aus Werkstoffen und Verfahren erdacht, mit der eine durchgehende generative Fertigung eines Scheinwerfers mit Ausnahme der Reflektoren moglich ist. Im Projekt namens GenLight wird die LED-Kuhlleistung mit bionischen Kuhlkorpern gesteigert. Bis 2025 konnte der Scheinwerfer Serienreife erlangen.