Month: September 2023

Rigorosum Dr. Michael Mayrhofer

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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Master Degree in Industrial Engineering of Dr. Markus Brillinger

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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Keynote @ ImagineIKT

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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Large Language Model based application AERIALL presented at partner conference

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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