Industrial working group »Audio Technology for intelligent Production«

The Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT and Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences have joined forces and established the industrial working group »Audio Technology for intelligent Production«.

A large number of regional and supra-regional companies are already part of this network. Together with them, we develop solutions and technological innovations for industry and production. During regular meetings, the partners discuss potential areas of application for hearing, speech and audio technology, paving the way for the introduction of application-oriented and innovative technology concepts.

Focus of the Industrial Working Group

In the various research fields, we develop technologies, services and products with and for the members of the industrial working group »Audio Technology for intelligent Production«.

»The integration of audio technology in production harbours great potential.« Professor Sven Carsten Lange, Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences

»With our audio technology expertise and our experience in the area of machine learning, we want to give our industrial partners a competitive edge in their digital transformation endeavours.« Dr Jens-E. Appell, Head of Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Oldenburg

Become part of the network

Exchange ideas with contacts from industry, production and applied research and by that contribute to the targeted development of innovative audio technology and concrete applications.

Your added value: by introducing your own application scenarios, your company can benefit first from suitable developments.

Are you interested in joining? Please contact us!

Audio technology in 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:

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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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Male and Female Industrial Engineers Talk with Factory Worker while Using Laptop. They Work at the Heavy Industry Manufacturing Facility.

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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Intuitive real-time voice control for industry

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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.

Application example: »Hearable for the Smart Industrial Workplace«

The technologies for the hearable for the smart industrial workplace explained in simple terms by Dr Jan Rennies-Hochmuth

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Dr Jan Rennies-Hochmuth, our expert for personal hearing systems and optimal speech intelligibility, explains the operating principle and added value of our technologies and development approaches surrounding the »intelligent earbud« at a showcase event on 28 August 2020.

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.

Other industrial solutions by Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg

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.

Further Information

 

Voice Control

Efficient and safe collaboration between humans and machines through robust voice control

 

Press Release / 18.5.2022

Under pressure...

Hannover Messe 2022: Detecting pneumatic actuator leakage by means of intelligent audio technology and innovative AI methods

 

»Click«

We at Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg are making a concrete contribution to AI support for shopfloor management on the basis of automated data processing with intelligent ears for automated and contact-free production control.

 

The hearable for the smart industrial workplace

A small, in-ear hearable for better human-machine interaction – a big task for a little earbud.

 

Reliable speech documentation

Automatic speech recognition for contactless documentation, e.g. in maintenance tasks, quality assurance or logistics

 

Press Release / 2.4.2020

Not all clicks are the same

Reliable and documented clicking into place of mechanical connections: Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg is developing a system for inline production monitoring.

The further development of the institute’s branch is funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of the German State of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation within the »Vorab« program.

All solutions at a glance

Here you can find further information about our solutions of the Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA.