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The 8th Pro²Future Partner Conference is now behind us, and it was a particularly significant event as it focused on the future of the center. This year, we had the honor of hosting more than 70 participants from leading industrial companies and academic institutions, both from Austria and abroad such as Technical University of Munich, …

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🏆 Honoring Excellence in Research and Innovation🎓 Muaaz Abdul Hadi, researcher from Pro2Future Area 4.2 – Cognitive Production Systems, achieved a remarkable milestone in his research career. He submitted his doctoral dissertation for the 2023 Österreichische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktionstechnik (ÖWGP) Doctoral Colloquium award. 📅 On the 10th of October 2023, Muaaz was invited to …

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Pro²Future was particularly well represented at this year’s Science Day at TU Graz on September 27th, 2023 in the Old Technology at TU Graz. The motto of the Science Day at TU Graz, which takes place once a year, was “New Worlds in Production” and we were of course able to boast many contributions and …

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On September 22, 2023, Michael Mayrhofer, researcher in Area 2 “Cognitive Robotics and Shop Floors”, successfully defended his PhD with distinction at the Institute of Software Systems Engineering at Johannes Kepler University Linz. The thesis was written under supervision of Prof. Alexander Egyed and Dr. Christoph Mayr-Dorn. The examination committee consisted of Prof. Wolfgang Kastner …

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Pro2Future is also represented in the fall issue of “DIE MACHER” magazine. Editor Melanie Kashofer describes cognitive products as designed by Pro2Future GmbH. Excerpt Products that think (with) you In the course of developing new vehicles, many different scenarios have to be tested and thousands of kilometres driven in order to be able to guarantee …

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The master’s examination of Area 4.2 (Cognitive Production Systems) Area Manager DI Dr. Markus Brillinger took place on September 20, 2023, in the rooms of the smartfactory. After his first technical master’s degree (2015) and his doctorate in mechanical engineering (2018), Markus Brillinger wanted to know it again and enrolled during the pandemic to study …

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As part of ImagineIKT, Dr. Michael Haslgrübler, Area Manager of the “Perception and Aware Systems” area, gave a 5-minute keynote with the focus on “Developing digital technology for people”. This lecture, representative of currently ongoing FFG projects, showed the importance of the development of digital technologies for people. One focus point was to convey that …

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Through a strategic project within Area 3 that deals with the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in an industrial context, a first prototype has been developed and presented at the 8th Pro²Future Partner Conference on September 13, 2023. The developed application, AERIALL, allows expanding the knowledge of LLMs, which are trained on large amounts …

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