SFB 653:  Gentelligent Components in their Lifecycle - Utilisation of Inheritable Component Inherent Information in Production Engineering

• Subject Area: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Term: from 2005 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5486368

Within the Collaborative Research Centre components with novel properties as well as concepts, methods and techniques for their manufacturing and utilisation in production engineering will be developed. The long-term objective of this interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre is the integration of components with their corresponding information for reproduction as well as stress information from their lifecycle. The term gentelligent component was introduced for these components wherein gentelligent refers to the genetic and intelligent character of these innovative components.
A gentelligent component inherently stores all information necessary for its distinct identification, reproduction as well as for its manufacturing process. By using adequate materials and sensors these components are enabled to detect, process, store, and interpret specific information collected within their use such as loads applied, acceleration, and temperature. These information at large are intrinsically tied to the component and can be read back on demand. This combination of properties leads to all new potentials for the use in fields such as production planning, production, and maintenance, repairing or recycling.
At the beginning of this research programme methods for linking components and corresponding information are developed that go far beyond the scale of integration of existing Auto ID technologies. Thus, the storage of information will be a main focus within the first funding period. Another main focus will be to establish the component s ability to learn by inventing novel sensor technologies like e.g. by tracking martensite concentration. Within other projects method will be developed to combine individual component s information on a systems level. Hereunto innovative procedures for reading, writing and communicating information will be developed. Furthermore, it will be initially started to explore potentials on how these biological properties of components can be utilised in production engineering.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Completed projects

• 01 - Components with Gentelligent Surfaces and Subsurface Zones (Project Heads Breidenstein, Bernd ;  Denkena, Berend ;  Ostermann, Jörn )
• 02 - Magnetic Magnesium Alloys (Project Heads Bach, Friedrich-Wilhelm ;  Bormann, Dirk ;  Kerber, Kai ;  Maier, Hans Jürgen )
• 03 - Sintering Gentelligent Parts from Metal Powder (Project Head Behrens, Bernd-Arno )
• 04 - Modular, Multifunctional Micro Sensors (Project Heads Gatzen, Hans-Heinrich ;  Rissing, Lutz ;  Wurz, Marc Christopher )
• 05 - Gentelligent Identification of Components and Evaluation of Integrity (Project Heads Bach, Friedrich-Wilhelm ;  Maier, Hans Jürgen ;  Reimche, Wilfried )
• 06 - Dispensed Fibers for Component Inherent Energy Transmission and Optical Data Transfer (Project Head Overmeyer, Ludger )
• 07 - Planning and Monitoring of Shape cutting Manufacturing Processes based on Part- and Manufacturing-information (Project Heads Denkena, Berend ;  Henning, Helge )
• 08 - Opto-electronical Integration of a HF-Communication system for Gentelligent Components (Project Heads Geck, Bernd ;  Overmeyer, Ludger )
• 09 - Reading and Writing of Magnetic Data (Project Heads Gatzen, Hans-Heinrich ;  Rissing, Lutz ;  Wurz, Marc Christopher )
• 10 - Gentelligent Components for Machine Tools (Project Heads Denkena, Berend ;  Litwinski, Kai Martin ;  Möhring, Hans Christian )
• 11 - Component Status driven Maintenance (Project Head Nyhuis, Peter )
• 12 - Algorithmic Design Evolution based on Product Lifecycle Information (Project Heads Lachmayer, Roland ;  Mozgova, Iryna )
• 13 - Target-group-specific Network Approach in Public Relations (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• 14 - Coordination of the CRC (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• E04 - Magnetic conditioning and microstructuring of workpiece surfaces by laser radiation (Project Heads Kling, Rainer ;  Overmeyer, Ludger )
• G - Zentrale Aufgaben des SFB (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• K03 - Echtzeitfähige Planung und Steuerung der Montage auf Basis bauteilinhärenter Informationen (Project Head Nyhuis, Peter )
• S02 - Metal-forming manufacture of mechanical load sensors by inserting local strains (Project Heads Behrens, Bernd-Arno ;  Voges-Schwieger, Kathrin )
• T01 - Teachless Process Monitoring for a Single-piece Production (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• T02 - Sensory clamping system for monitoring of system and process state (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• T03 - 3D-Laser-patterning of Sensor Layer Systems - Development of an Industrial Demonstrator (Project Heads Overmeyer, Ludger ;  Stute, Uwe ;  Suttmann, Oliver )
• T04 - Gentelligent Design of Workpiece Topography and Increased Productivity of Geometrically Defined Cutting Processes through Axial Tool Excitation (Project Heads Denkena, Berend ;  Köhler, Jens )
• T05 - Method and Machine for the Application and Integration of Substrateless Modular Micro Sensors (Project Heads Rissing, Lutz ;  Wurz, Marc Christopher )
• T08 - Low power sensor node with photovoltaic power supply for wireless-based monitoring of thread cutting and thread inspection processes (Project Heads Geck, Bernd ;  Overmeyer, Ludger )
• T09 - Operational and adaptive process planning and control (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• T10 - Simulation-based deviation monitoring (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• T12 - Parameter based characterization of topographies and the adjustment of grinding processes by self-learning models (Project Head Breidenstein, Bernd )
• T13 - Knowledge-based process planning based on past data (Project Head Denkena, Berend )
• T14 - Entwicklung und Herstellung von direktabgeschiedener Sensorik auf Baugruppen einer Bohrlochgarnitur (Project Head Wurz, Marc Christopher )

• Applicant Institution: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Participating Institution: Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH)
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr.-Ing. Berend Denkena