Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMTThe goal of the priority project X-ProDev (accelerated product development) was to accelerate and improve product development by linking digital tools in a novel way. Specifically, cyber-physical test environments, material and process optimization using AI and the development of marking and identification technologies (traceability) were developed and demonstrated.
With its current research and development activities in the field of acoustic monitoring of manufacturing processes, Fraunhofer IDMT built on its expertise in detecting and analyzing audible defects already during the individual processes using machine-learning methods. The focus here layed on the fusion of different sensor data – ultra-sound and airborne-sound – to improve the accuracy of the analysis.