Industrial working group »Audio Technology for intelligent Production«

Sound recognition: We design audio technologies for safe, efficient and cost-effective solutions in production. This opens up a particularly broad and varied spectrum of potential applications.

In the following section, we present three application-oriented scenarios by way of example:

Click!

With »Intelligent Ears«, we enable a reliable and checkable clicking into place of plug connections – e. g. in vehicle production. This acoustic process monitoring supports quality assurance and minimises customer complaints.

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All good!

We can detect a change in operating sounds in a machine tool at an early stage. This makes it easier to plan maintenance work and avoids downtime – or even expensive equipment failure.

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Understood!

We develop intelligent hearing protection that reduces disturbing ambient noise and amplifies the sounds people need to hear. Especially in noisy production environments, it allows staff to communicate more easily. Combined with our speech-based solutions for simple and safe human-machine interaction, contactless control of equipment or performance of documentation tasks are also possible.

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Voice control enables the AGVs to react flexibly to new requirements. They can receive instructions in real time and adapt their routes, for example to enable tools to be delivered to the workplace on time. Cobots can be controlled from a distance with increasingly intuitive operation while keeping hands free.

Already today, audio technology solutions provide support in the industrial workplace, as the following example clearly illustrates.

With conventional hearing protection solutions, the wearer has to decide between protecting their own hearing and verbal communication on site. Through AI-based noise selection, this question no longer arises. Fraunhofer IDMT is working on technological solutions for hearables that serve as hearing protection in noisy production environments and at the same time support communication between staff – with optimal speech intelligibility directly at the machine, but also over greater distances.

We offer a wide range of industrial solutions: intuitive and contactless voice control, the hearable for the smart industrial workplace, the EEG lab to go, reliable speech documentation and acoustic monitoring for plug connections. For more impressions, please watch our video.