Welcome to our newest podcast episode featuring the DLR - Institut für Systemleichtbau and its DLR Innovation Lab EmpowerAX of Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.

Your host today is Ilkay Özkisaoglu, Co-Founder of Composites Lounge and after circling back to our grand interviews that we already conducted during JEC World 2024 and ILA Berlin - Pioneering Aerospace, we have more details for you.

My guests are Maik Titze who will explain you why lightweight technologies require system designing in future and will introduce you to the new departments of DLR - Institut für Systemleichtbau in the field of innovation and sustainability.

Developing the full sustainability potential of lightweight system construction is the main goal of the institutes new department "Sustainability Technologies". Dr. Steffen Opitz will introduce you to this new department and the exciting topics being researched here.

These have not only been set-up to further develop circularity, but Karina Kroos will underscore the ambitious goals that have been formulated.

Anyone who is in component manufacturing requires life cycle assessment. Sabrina Diniz will elaborate on this strategic topic that considers the current framework and conditions of DIN EN ISO 14040.

These and more are the topics that you can immerse yourself in during the stage programme, which will be presented by various internal and external speakers at the DLR - Institut für Systemleichtbau Wissenschaftstag on the topic of "Sustainability and Resource efficiency through lightweight systems" on 26 September 2024. Steffen Opitz will name the highlights of this exciting day for you and will explain how you can be part of it.

We will then dive into the topic of "Quality assurance and sustainability in fibre-reinforced 3D printing" together. This is the topic of this year's EmpowerAX Day of the DLR Innovation Lab EmpowerAX on 25 September 2024.

Here we will find out why the topics of quality assurance and recycling in fibre-reinforced 3D printing are still associated with a number of challenges. Jan-Uwe R. S. is the expert on these topics.

We will be rethinking the topic of recycling with Souvik Chakraborty, PhD and Dr.-Ing. Robert Hein will explain how simulation can assist both in process and quality management.

Last, but not least I will be asking Xenia Sophia Köneke to run us one more time through this exciting day that she organizes with her team and most importantly what you as a participant can expect besides state-of-the-art technical know-how from Germany's flagship aerospace centre.

Your take away from this podcast will be knowledge on the latest sustainability technologies and fibre-reinforced 3D printing that will be presented in much more detail from 25-26 September 2024.

EmpowerAX Day: https://lnkd.in/dcCgxTA9
SY-Wissenschaftstag: https://lnkd.in/dAtV5Fxg 
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At JEC World 2024 in Paris, the future of construction is taking shape, and it's more exciting than ever!

The conversation around innovative solutions like Owens Corning's Pink Bar and CG TEC GmbH I Carbonscout Onlineshop's TEC BAR is not just about materials; it's about revolutionizing the industry.

The Pink Bar, four times lighter than steel and incredibly durable, is ready to make waves in the European market.

With its sustainable design, it offers not only environmental benefits but also efficiency in production and application.

As we discussed, the potential for these advanced rebars is vast, especially in sectors like offshore construction where corrosion resistance is crucial. 🌊

Paolo Casadei, Jens Boelke and Oliver Kipf shared insights on the importance of adapting codes and design guides in Europe to embrace these innovations.

The U.S. market is already seeing a shift, with FRP rebars gaining traction in various applications.

It’s time for Europe to catch up! The industry must collaborate to ensure that sustainable practices become the norm, not the exception. 🌍 

We believe that with ongoing innovation and a commitment to sustainability, we can redefine the future of construction materials.

Let's not shy away from competition; instead, let's embrace the opportunities ahead.

Together, we can pave the way for a more sustainable and efficient construction industry.

Join the conversation and explore the possibilities with us!

What are your thoughts on the future of rebars in construction?

Welcome to our two part episode where Composites Lounge invited Dr Dr. Phil Gralla of sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing to explain how "Hardware in the Loop" (HIL) increases data analysis.

Ilkay Özkisaoglu found this a fascinating way to utilize data and if you are not familiar with HIL and how your manufacturing of plastics and composites can benefit from it, listen to this episode.

sensXPERT opened its doors end of April 2024 and it took a while to compile this live demo, because we wanted to create the best possible experience, know-how transfer and you to understand the practice of AI, more precisely ML applied to inmold plastics and composites components.

There are also some developments that are contactless, since requirements in trenchless technologies assume a test from a certain distance after installation.

A little more background on HIL to warm you up on this particular episodes, because these are truly technical:

What is hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)?

According to MathWorks.com "HIL (Hardware-in-the-loop) simulation is a technique for validating your control algorithm to be run on a specific target controller by creating a real-time virtual environment that represents the physical system to be controlled. HIL allows you to test the behavior of your control algorithms without physical prototypes.

How does HIL simulation work?

You create and simulate a real-time virtual implementation of physical components—such as a production plant with sensors and actuators—on a target computer.
You run the control algorithm on an embedded controller and run the model of the plant or environment in real time on a target computer connected to the controller. The embedded controller interacts with the plant model simulation through multiple I/O channels.
You refine software representations of your components and gradually replace parts of the system environment with the actual hardware components.

With this approach, HIL simulation can avoid expensive iterations in hardware manufacturing.

Where are HIL simulations used?

HIL simulations are particularly useful when testing your control algorithm on the real physical system would be expensive or dangerous. HIL simulations are commonly used in automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial automation and engineering to test embedded designs.

Examples of commonly used HIL simulations include:

Aerospace and defense: flight simulators and flight dynamics control where it would be too complex to test the control algorithm on the actual aircraft

Automotive: vehicle dynamics and control where it would not make sense to test functionality in the early stages on the road

Industrial automation: plant control testing when stopping production or assembly lines to test control algorithms would mean high resource costs and business losses" (Mathworks.com online accessed 23 Aug 2024, Link in the comments)

Maybe more a fact than a trend. The EU Green Deal requires the plastic manufacturing industry to use 25% recycled materials, for example, in automotive parts.

This poses a huge problem because recycled materials can have a lot of deviations in their processing behavior.

In this video podcast, Arne Büttner, Sales Engineer of sensXPERT, introduced their innovative technology to manage these challenges to Ilkay Özkisaoglu, Co-Founder of Composites Lounge. At the forefront of their AI solution is an efficient and cost-efficient production.

Please get in touch with Phil and Cornelia Beyer of sensXPERT during the upcoming CAMX 2024 show. At their booth QQ34, you can drop your business card and win a free material characterization test.

In addition, Alexander Chaloupka will be holding a presentation at the ICS on September 5, 2024, at 10 a.m. on the Innovation Stage. His topic will be "Cost-Efficient and High-Quality Composite Parts with Intelligent Process Control Technology".

Finally, as this interview ends with our JEC Forum DACH 2024 outro, you may also meet with Dominik Riescher of sensXPERT.

Come alongside us and listen to the latest in process deeptech in North America, UK and the DACH Region.

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Listen to our podcast with Prof. Alan Banks, Chair of Board of Directors of Composites UK - Trade Association during the recent JEC World 2024.

Listen as to why Alan believes the UK is THE one stop shop when it comes to composites and were he thinks the heritage lies. Did you know that all UK motorsport firms are in a radius of 10 miles near Birmingham?

We'd like to take the opportunity to alert you of the upcoming Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites in Construction (FPCC 2024) Event that is organised by the Composites UK in parallel to the International Composites Summit (ICS) on September 5, 2024 at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, UK.

"The FPCC 2024 event brings together leading academic and industry researchers and innovators in the construction and infrastructure industry to share and discuss recent developments and future perspectives in the application of fibre-reinforced polymer composites across the sector." (Composites UK, 2024)

Looking forward meeting some Composites Lounge members and partners in September again.

Happy networking!
Ilkay Özkisaoglu
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#composites360ontour

YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EikWoBMhyk

Industriemanager: Geht seit geraumer Zeit Dein Energiebedarf auch durch die Decke? Dann liegt das an Deiner fehlenden Isolierung.

Moin, liebe Community und Industrie Experten, heute melde ich mich mit der Composites Lounge aus dem wunderschönen Niedersachsen, und zwar aus Ankum.

Wie versprochen durfte ich Uwe Becker, der in Bippen, gleich hier in den Nachbarorten, eine Produktion zu mikroporösen Isolierungen aufgebaut hat, interviewen.

Wir reden in diesem Video vornehmlich über Höchsttemperaturen also da, wo Stahl irgendwo im orangenen, roten und vielleicht schon weißglühenden Bereich kommt. Das sind Temperaturen, die hast du normalerweise im Haushaltsbereich oder im Industriebereich, nicht 800, 900 oder 1000 Grad Celsius.

Der Grund, warum wir heute Isolierungen zum Thema machen ist, weil wir mehr über diese hochinteressante Technologie von Isolierungen informieren möchten. Denn es ist schon noch so, dass viele große Industriebetriebe die Investition in Isolierungen scheuen. Isolierungen weisen aber wenn man die richtig auslegt und effizient einsetzt einen Payback von unter einem Jahr aus.

Beispielsweise gibt's bei der European Industrial Insulation Foundation, der EiiF, wo ich auch Brand Ambassador bin, Rechnungen, dass sich zum Beispiel Amaturenisolierungen innerhalb eines Jahres alleine durch die Energieersparnis der Isolierung rechnen (Link zum brandaktuellen Whitepaper im Kommentar)

Also, es ist eigentlich ein No-brainer Isolierungen einzusetzen, aber trotzdem tun sich viele schwer Investitionen in diesem Bereich zu tätigen, und ich möchte mit diesem Video auch nochmal darauf hinweisen, dass Isolierung eine sehr probate Massnahme zur Nachhaltigkeit ist.

Uwe Becker, Geschäftsführer Becker Insulation GmbH stellt in erster Linie Highend Mikroporöse Produkte her, das heißt BI verpresst die Produkte nach Kundenwunsch, bringt sie in die richtige Form, in Form von Halbschalen in allermeisten Fällen.

Uwe erzählt uns, wie sein Kleinunternehmen (mit immerhin 4 Mio Euro Umsatz) Innovationen, die am Markt wahren Nutzen bieten, mit Isolierungen herausbringt.

Der USP von Mikroporösen Produkten ist, das sie deutlich besser isolieren, einfach weil die Moleküle viel, viel kleiner sind. Das heißt, die Energie wird von einem Molekül zum anderen weitergegeben. Der Weg von einem Molekül zum anderen ist nicht lang genug, sodass die Energie weitergegeben werden könnte. Zum anderen gibt es einen sogenannten Opacifier, ein Trübungsmittel, das die Strahlungshitze verhindert und somit nicht die Wärmeleitzahl, auch bei hohen Temperaturen, zum Beispiel bei 800 Grad nur bei 0,034 Watt pro Meter und Kelvin, was deutlich besser ist als alles andere.

Des weiteren können die Mikroporösen Produkte wiederverwertet werden, d.h. einfach wieder aufmahlen und neu verwerten. Es gibt also keinen Abfall in dem Bereich und somit 100 Prozent nutzen des Produktes, der Herstellung.

Wie fandet ihr die heutige Episode?

YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nCwnXNv64&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1

Have you ever considered how the aerospace industry manages to reduce the weight of their planes? Of course the carbon nacelle and the vertical tail comes into the mind, but what about systems, like the breaks of the aircraft?

How do you stop a fully loaded Airbus A350 with 200 tons on the runway safely? Breaking systems are extremely heavy therefore new technologies need to be developed and applied on future generation of planes. The task however is extremely challenging, because you cannot just replace material A by B, but need to apply sytemthinking in engineering.

Today Composites Lounge introduces you with Xenia Sophia Köneke of DLR - Institut für Systemleichtbau a demonstrator part that displays systemthinking in components manufacture.

And here is the catch: how do you combine lightweight processes like additive manufacturing and injection molding that need to follow a path without start and stops? This is were sophisticated software comes into play.

The approach demonstrated by the DLR Institute for Lightweight Systems, more precisely the DLR Innovation Lab EmpowerAX with their partners 9T Labs, WEBER additive and SWMS is proof that combining conventional composite manufacturing with the high design freedom and agility of the fiber reinforced 3D printing ensures the material is put only where it is really needed.

That is the USP of this systemthought, which brings the functionality into the part that it needs for its application and that makes it cost efficient and resource saving. That's also why the JEC Group's independent jury has awarded it with their elite innovation price.

Xenia and the whole DLR Team are welcoming you to a two day event in Braunschweig Sept. 25/26 in 2024. You will experience high calibre networking, first hand insights into their CFRP (CFK) wing lab and up-to-date know-how co-ordinated by Germany's No 1 aerospace centre.

I will be present on both days, too and encourage you to join our Composites Lounge mission of CREATING SUSTAINABLE VALUE with their partners in Braunschweig.

Once again, I thank the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. team for organising a public event of this scale, to better our world with sustainable aviation and for opening their doors to the expert public through LinkedIn.

YouTube Podcast: https://youtu.be/YiKUPooJTL4

Du brauchst nur diesem Event beiwohnen und kennst danach die Technologie-Trends im Batterie-Sektor sowie deren Auswirkung auf die Converting und anderen Industrien.

Am 28.6.2024 moderierte ich anlässlich des M2N Media GmbH Converting GIPFEL 2024 ein Panel zum Thema Technologie-Trends im Batterie-Sektor im Hamburger EAST Hotel.

Es war das zweite High-Calibre Panel zu Batterietechnik nach der ILA Berlin - Pioneering Aerospace. Damals ging es um die Flugzeuge im internationalen Kontext, diesmal jedoch Industrieübergreifend.

Das deutschsprachige Panel besprach die Auswirkungen unter anderem auf die Converting Industrie und wir streamen es nun nach einem moderaten Edit Live on Tape hier in LinkedIn auf meinem persönlichen Kanal.

Panelisten:

Dr. Christina Toigo, Expertin für Wasserstofftechnologie und Energiespeicher
Uwe Becker, Geschäftsführer und Inhaber von Becker Insulation
Dr.-Ing. Jan Diekmann, Vice President Innovation von Custom Cells

Die Gastgeber des M2N Converting GIPFEL sind

Nina Pirchmoser, Head of Sales M2N
Martin Hirschmann, Chief Editor M2N

Jetzt bereits den nächsten M2N Gipfel in 2025 vormerken:

25-26. Juni 2025 Hotel EAST Hamburg
Wir sehen uns wieder in Hamburg!

Happy Networking!

Dein Ilkay
DER Social CEO
Co-Founder Composites Lounge

YouTube Podcast: https://youtu.be/EtZHVHqDDB0

DLR EmpowerAX Day und Wissenschaftstag am 25.-26.9.2024: Interview mit dem stellvertretenden Abteilungsleiter Maik Titze auf dem DLR Messestand während der ILA 2024 in Berlin
 
Maik Titze ist stellvertretender Abteilungsleiter (Abteilung Leichtbauinnovation) des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Institut für Systemleichtbau
 
Er stellt sowohl den EmpowerAX als auch den Wissenschaftstag vor:

„Der EmpowerAX Tag ist eine Vorveranstaltung zum Wissenschaftstag, der sich thematisch mit dem faserverstärkten 3D-Druck beschäftigt. Der EmpowerAX Tag wird vom DLR InnovationLab und Empower Additive Extrusion ausgerichtet, wo wir gemeinsam mit Technologieanbietern und -anwendern ergründen wollen, wo die Anwendungsschwerpunkte vom faserverstärkten 3D-Druck liegen können. Dieses Jahr beschäftigen wir uns insbesondere mit der Ressourceneffizienz und der Qualitätssicherung dieser Prozesse in Kombination mit etablierten Fertigungsverfahren. Die Teilnahme ist ebenfalls kostenlos, und auch dort laden wir insbesondere auch Technologieanbieter ein, sich mit kleinen Ständen zu präsentieren, direkt mit Bauteilen in Kontakt zu kommen und vor Ort zu diskutieren, wo die Anwendungsschwerpunkte in Zukunft liegen können

"In dem diesjährigen Wissenschaftstag geht es um Nachhaltigkeit und Ressourceneffizienz durch Systemleichtbau. Dort werden spannende Vorträge stattfinden von Industrie und natürlich auch Forschung zu Themenschwerpunkten wie effiziente Produktion, nachhaltige Formwerkzeuge, Ökobilanzierung, Materialkreisläufe, aber auch ganzheitliche Konstruktionsansätze. Die Teilnahme an diesem Wissenschaftstag ist kostenlos, die Teilnahme  und wir reichen natürlich auch Zeiträume ein, um anhand von themenbezogenen Demonstratoren mit den Teilnehmern ins Gespräch zu kommen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren, wie der Systemleichtbau, nachhaltig und ressourceneffizient die Luftfahrt und andere Industrien in Zukunft unterstützen kann.“

Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie unter folgenden Anmeldeseiten
 
Wissenschaftstag: https://dlr.expert/wita2024

EmpowerAX-Tag: https://dlr.expert/eax-science-day-2024

Folgen Sie auch gerne dem Leichtbaublog des Instituts: https://leichtbau.dlr.de/

bzw.

Website des Instituts: https://www.dlr.de/de/sy/

Servicedesk des Instituts für Systemeleichtbau: [email protected]   

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The episode is a discussion between Ilkay Özkisaoglu, Adalberto Horák, and Eric about the AoSheng Hi-Tech, a company established in China and aiming to expand into the European market.

They discuss Aosheng's background, their focus on automotive parts, their presence in the global market, and their emphasis on technology and innovation.

The Aosheng Group is an established company in China with a significant presence in the automotive industry. They are now looking to expand into the European market and are emphasizing their capabilities and commitment to providing high-quality products and services.

Future events: The Aosheng Group is opening a European-based office, signaling their intention to enter the European market and establish a stronger presence there.

Further topics discussed:
Business expansion and international market, Automotive industry, Composite materials and technology innovation

This episode interview was recorded during JEC World the JEC Group's flagship convention in Paris (France) during our #composites360OnTour format