EDAG do Brasil

08.10.2020 |

Industry 4.0 networks people, machines, products, buildings and processes to make them more intelligent, innovative and efficient. Digital transformation has made all of that possible. The smart factory, which is based on cyber-physical systems that make communication possible between named actors in the Internet and things, came from this. Guess what? You're already in the thick of it – the buzzword jungle of Industry 4.0 and therefore in the smart factory too. Even branch insiders can sometimes only guess at the meaning behind these terms that mostly come from English, with seemingly new additions being made every day. We would like to throw light on the darkness of the buzzword jungle and make the most important concepts of the smart factory understandable for you.

07.10.2020 |

Individualisation allows you to stand out from the crowd and give a product its own stamp. It starts with the online design of sneakers, continues with the sofa for which we become designers ourselves, and ends with our car, which we can at least partially configure individually. Individualisation is becoming increasingly important, especially in the automotive industry. But there is much more to the construction of micro and small series than the pink tuned sports car, which among other crazy things finds itself in the garage of an international music starlet. For the experts at EDAG, the field of testing and vehicle construction is not only the development of prototypes, pre-series vehicles and small series production, but also the chance to work on solutions for tomorrow's mobility.

30.09.2020 |

The DNA is the carrier of the genetic material and therefore the building plan of our body. Trees also have their DNA and thus their species-specific blueprint stored in their seeds and therefore exhibit so-called "generative growth". This means that depending on where the seed is planted, the growth adapts to external conditions such as sun, wind and water. This means that trees of the same species generate very different growth, even though the blueprint is the same. EDAG has taken precisely this process of adapted growth to the prevailing boundary conditions as a model for the development process. With the help of the ELISE software (cover picture: component DNA for a lightweight holder; copyright: ELISE GmbH), each component will in future have its own DNA, thus enabling a fast and variant-rich product development process known as "Generative Engineering".