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gfai tech – going for advanced innovation technologies!

Products “made in Adlershof”

Balancing Science and Economics

Magdalena BÖCK [email protected]

Adlershof Technology Park

One of the 15 biggest science parks worldwide &

Most important science, business and media site in Berlin-Brandenburg

• ten non-university research institutes • six institutes of the Humboldt University • almost 1,000 businesses and organizations

Why settle/ found here?

GFaI eV Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik Society for the Promotion of Applied Computer Sciences • not-for-profit R&D organization • founded 1990 • based in Berlin-Adlershof

• ∼120 employees

– third-party funded projects – industrial research contracts – industrial research services

• advancement of R&D in computer applied sciences • industrial joint-research

• 100+ members* (companies, organizations, individuals) • numerous successful cooperations

* full list of members: http://www.gfai.de

Historical background - GFaI

November 04, 1989: mass demonstration in Berlin/ Alexanderplatz

November 09, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall

June 01, 1990: Founding of GFaI

July 01, 1990: start of the monetary union

October 03, 1990: start evaluation process – Academy of Sciences (GDR)

Summer 1990: German Reunification

June 1991: Admission to AiF

September 1991: GFaI moves to Adlershof

December 31, 1991: End liquidation process – Academy of Sciences (GDR)

December, 1992 2,5 years GFaI > 74 employees

Important questions in the beginning

• How to fit into the new German research landscape? Is there a chance at all?

• What thematic focus is suitable? How can the balancing act between science and business succeed? What scientific work involves sufficient economic potential? How do you design the relationship between publicly funded projects and industrial R&D contracts?

• How can a private non-university research institute cooperate with other scientific institutions, especially universities? How can different interests be reconciled?

Important questions in the beginning ctd.

• How do you win partners in on the market? How do you attract customers?

• How does a non-university research institute organize marketing & sales?

• How can networking be organized effectively? Does an open door policy mean an influx of knowledge or a drain of it?

• What facilities are necessary? How can these be financed?

In the German research landscape

Mediator between science and industry

06-1990

06-1991

02-1993

01-2002

02-1993

Individual memebers 06-1990

Institutional members 03-1991

11-1993

04-2006

Thematic focus

Area of tension High level of expertise, unique features ↔ applications and potential benefits Avoid: - We know everything about things no one is interested in - We can do little of what many need

3D modeling / 3D computer graphics

3D data acquisition

Example: Search for a specialty in the field of 3D modeling/ 3D computer graphics > focus on 3D data acquisition

Cooperation with other scientific institutions

• Joint R&D projects funded by

• Practical training: – teaching assignments at universities – involvement of students in teaching – offering internships to students – providing topics for Bachelor/ Master/ PhD thesis

Success on the market - customers

example Acoustic Camera • First idea: basic research • First application field: failure • Perseverance! New orientation! • Co-developed with the customer. But not via money, rather

with requirements to a product “Acoustic Camera” • First sale to co-developer • Management of further developments, sales and services • Establishment of professional sales • Strong focus on automotive industry, downturn in 2009 • Diversification of target groups: overcoming the slump in 2010

Success on the market

Acoustic Camera R&D

Production & worldwide marketing

Research on interference in natural neural networks

Change of orientation

Time bar – Acoustic Camera 1994: first research 1996: first experimental arrangement 1999: prototype of an Acoustic Camera 2001: first national sale 2003: Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2004: first international sale 2005: Nomination „German Future Award“ 2006: founding of gfai tech GmbH

Networking On a small scale

• Board meetings • Advisory council meetings • Internal network workshops • Thematically limited brainstorming • Project committee sessions

On a large scale • Membership meetings of GFaI and AIF

Public events • Technical events

– EVA (Electronic media and art, culture, history) – Ambient-Energy for Ambient Intelligence“ – 3D North-East

• Parties and Celebrations • Intl. conferences and tradeshows (e.g. Expo2007 Aichi)

GFaI eV Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik Society for the Promotion of Applied Computer Sciences • not-for-profit R&D organization • founded 1990 • based in Berlin-Adlershof

• ∼120 employees

– third-party funded projects – industrial research contracts – industrial research services

• advancement of R&D in computer applied sciences • industrial joint-research

• 100+ members* (companies, organizations, individuals) • numerous successful cooperations

* full list of members: http://www.gfai.de

Expertise/ Departments

Departments: – Image Processing – 3D Data Processing – Fuzzy Logic Applications – Document Management – Graph-based Engineering Systems – Hardware and Interference Systems – Adaptive Modelling and Pattern Recognition – Computer Aided Facility Management – Signal Processing (Acoustic Camera)

Project groups:

– Information Systems – Multimedia – Process Automation – Robotics – Sensors

Image Processing

• Engineering applications

• Industrial quality control

• Image analysis in forensic science

• Image databases

Example: Optical measurement of railway sleepers - 100% inspection (Pfleiderer AG)

Image Processing

Example: Image-content-indexed “SCHARS” (footprints and patterns archiving and retrieval system) - a forensic application

3D Data Processing

systems and algorithmic solutions for: • contactless 3D-measurement • 3D-modelling and data processing • 3D-visualization • 3D-parametrization and –vectorization • 3D-(form) and 2D-(image, texture)

data analysis • process and quality control • digital documentation and presentation of

three-dimensional issues • special solutions for computer aided design • license and/or order based software development

targeting 3D-applications • simulation of 3D-processes

3D Data Processing

3D data acquisition and processing and analysis: • terrestrical commercial laser scanning (TLS) • direct controlling device (Faro, Z & F) • commercial 3d software Final Surface® • custom software solutions tailored to specific

applications and customer requierements

Process Automation

• Intelligent optical inspection / measurement techniques

• Automation and quality management solutions for production engineering

Example: Systems Series „VCD“ (Visual Contour Digitizer)

• 2D acquisition and digitization of templates and sample parts

• Automated quality assurance of finished Parts

(DaimlerChrysler, Thyssen Krupp Stahl

Robotics

• Technological Application Solutions • Sensor integration • New programming techniques for

efficient use in SMEs and for small series.

Example: Sensor-aided teaching and calibration

Example: 3D modeling, programming and simulation system / ceramic industry(KERAMAG)

Example: Automatic programming of welding machines with sensory tolerance compensation

• Network Facilities Management • InfoCABLE® - Efficient support for the

planning, administration and documentation of complex communication networks (German Air Traffic Control)

• Tools for – Mass Data Acquisition – Change Management – Facility Layout

• Facility Process Management

Computer Aided Facility Management

Graph-based Engineering Services

- Toolkit for Analysis Optimization of Industrial Energy Systems -

Computer-aided tool for integrated analysis, design, evaluation and optimization of industrial power supply systems • Current state analysis of energy use

and supply systems: data collection and analysis

• Modeling and calculation of evaluation parameters for the existing energy supply system and possible variants

• Definition of objectives and decision-making • Data management • Automated creation of reports and

presentations

Energy-flow diagram

Acoustic Camera – making sound visible

→ fast

→ easy

→ precise

Signal Processing

An industry-oriented company, specializing in the sale of advanced innovative technologies.

gfai tech GmbH

Expertise/ Departments

GFaI Research

Areas

Fuzzy Logic Applications

Signal Processing

3D Data Processing

Graph-based Engineering

Systems

Adaptive Modelling and

Pattern Recognition

Document Management

Computer Aided Facility Management

Image Processing

Hardware and Interference

Systems

gfai tech GmbH

An industry-oriented company, specializing in the sale of advanced innovative technologies. → Founded 2006

→ 100% daughter of GFaI eV

→ development, → production, → global distribution of advanced innovation technologies

• InfoCABLE System for planning, administration and documentation of IT infrastructure systems

• Kranbahnmesswagen Laser measurement of rail tracks (industrial cranes)

• Leather measuring machine LQScan simultaneous area and thickness measuring

• LScan 3D 3D Scanner • SCHARS Web Internet and network

capable program for the registration, classification and retrieval of shoe prints and sole patterns

• Top-Energy Tool for analysis and optimization of industrial energy systems

• Visual Contour Digitizer for accurate measurement and comparison of large and flat or free-formed parts

• 3D Registhree Mobile image and 3D-registry system

• Acoustic Camera to visually localize acoustic emissions

• AMGuss analysis of the microstructure of cast iron

• BodyFit 3D 3D body measurements • BOST Data Base for Sockets and Bullets • FACET System documentation and

administration program for industrial plants

• Final Surface 3D software for acquisition, visualization, manipulation of 3D data

• Findex Indexing program • Fuzzy-Meater Image Processing System

for Quality Grading of Beef • GePaKo Quality Inspection for Coin

Wrapping Machines

Products (excerpt)

Balancing Science and Economics

• Interdisciplinary networking, cooperation (also in little formalized form)

• Using soft factors of the environment

• Establish regionally, be effective trans-regionally

• Listen to the needs of the industry. And act accordingly

• Staying power: ability to "recycle" scientific and technical skills

• Serving several application areas, target groups, markets with similar core competencies. No fear of the label “jack of all trades"

• Use the wide range of public financial support

gfai tech – going for advanced innovation technologies!

Thank you!

Magdalena Böck [email protected] Skype: magdalena.gfaitech