Smart Products and Factories

Capacitors are one of the key components in modern power electronics. If used as a DC-Link capacitor in an electrical vehicle or in a wind mill, modern capacitor technologies are required. Due to the fact that life time and reliability expectations are steadily increasing, condition monitoring is becoming a hot topic in power electronics. The components will communicate with the environment and become smart. Several different methods of condition monitoring of capacitors will be presented.

If you’re looking to realize untapped potential in your systems with intelligence, you know that adding more intelligence often means adding more components, sensors and complexity. Our vision is that Danfoss intelligent drives can act as your smartest IoT sensor without the added complexity. Our intelligent drives gather data from multiple sources by leveraging internal and external sensors. They use edge intelligence to generate actionable insights and can send valuable data to any cloud platform or on-premises system, wired or wireless.

This presentation will address Smart Factories based on Lean Automation and digitalization when developing adaptable, flexible and highly productive factories of the future. The presentation will demonstrate how simulation and digital twins can be used from design to operation, going from the virtual to the physical world.  The Smart Learning Factory can teach, challenge and collaborate with industry. Focus for Smart Factory research is also the SMEs.

• Innovating between complementary competences and opposing working cultures
• Goal alignment across multidisciplinary partners in a large-scale project
• Development of a smart factory by iterative generation of incremental prototypes

LINAK Linear electrical actuators are mechatronic systems developed for a wide range of applications including medical beds, couches and patient lifters, beds for home, furniture and a wide range of industrial applications for e.g. agriculture machinery. Advancement in low cost sensor technology, signal processing and data communication offers new opportunities for smarter products adding value to both customers, internal processes and market insight. Technology is available, but how do you pin-point the right specification.

The power rating of solar panels, even within the same production batch, can vary some percent, due to production tolerances. This case study analyzes the effect of the parameter variation on the overall power production of a large photovoltaic power plant during normal operation, and estimates the theoretical advantage of sorting each panel into power groups before mounting.