Would you like to unlock automation potential in engineering and quickly put it into practice? The Engineering Automation Performance Center supports companies from the initial idea to sustainable implementation in product development. On this page, you can find out how we work with you: from identifying relevant use cases (use case analysis) to practical demos and proof-of-concepts (PoCs) to scaling powerful, AI-supported engineering solutions. Together, we make the leap from idea to AI-supported, scalable AI solution for your product development process.
We combine in-depth expertise in engineering, industrial automation, and artificial intelligence to develop customized, AI-supported engineering processes for your company. Together, we analyze your existing processes, tools, and data flows, identify the most relevant use cases for AI in product development, and evaluate their potential.
On this basis, we develop proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and scalable solutions for productive operation – quickly, tangibly, and tailored precisely to your requirements. Our goal: seamless data integration in the development process and a sustainable increase in your competitiveness.
In doing so, we focus on clarity, realistic assessments, and partnership-based cooperation.
Together, we will shape your path to becoming an AI-enabled enterprise – systematically, practically, and with inspiration from the latest technologies.
Identification
We work with you to analyze your processes and identify specific potential for AI and automation.
POC implementation
We implement Proof Of Concepts with tangible results – quickly, validatably, and tailored to your goals.
Scaling
We support you in the further development and transfer of successful use cases into productive operation.
We consider the technical basis of your AI solutions and have an advanced infrastructure ourselves: tools, platforms, and secure environments for model deployment, traceability, and consistent data flows.
It all starts with an initial consultation
Whether you are looking for initial inspiration, in-depth collaboration, or customized implementation of AI-supported solutions in engineering, the Engineering Automation Performance Center offers you targeted cooperation formats tailored to your needs and current level of knowledge.
In the four areas inspiration, exploration, interaction & qualification, and cooperation, we create the framework for the exchange of experience, practical technology transfer, and the joint design of powerful Engineering Automation solutions. This allows you to find exactly the format that suits your goals, your pace, and the current implementation status in your company.
Inspiration
Exploration
Qualification
Cooperation
Inspiration
Inspiration
Experience what is possible
We come to you and bring hands-on technologies with us: With live demos of practical applications and illustrative tools, we make AI and engineering automation tangible. We spark enthusiasm, outline potential, and create a common understanding—as motivation for your next steps.
Inspiration
Impulses that make an impact
Are you planning an event and looking for a speaker or source of inspiration on AI and engineering automation? Whether it's a keynote speech, panel discussion, or expert roundtable - we bring experience, fresh perspectives, and exciting insights to the table. Feel free to contact us!
Inspiration
Experience technologies live
Lab tour SmartFactoryOWL
Experience firsthand how engineering automation is becoming reality in production system development: At SmartFactoryOWL, we demonstrate how digital transformation and automation work in practice—in a manufacturer-neutral, interactive, and practical way. Arrange your individual lab tour with our team on site.
Exploration
Exploration
Identify potential & make it concrete
Together, we identify AI potential in your development process, make it tangible, evaluate opportunities, and clarify open questions. With practical approaches, we create transparency and develop a coordinated roadmap for the next steps. What makes this special is that it is possible to identify many use cases and specifically define individual key applications.
Exploration
Understanding & evaluating technologies
AI technology radar
AI is changing business processes and markets—but not every technology is suitable for every application. Our Technology Radar provides guidance: Together, we analyze AI trends, evaluate opportunities and risks, and identify technologies that you can use effectively and with minimal effort.
Exploration
From potential to priority
Together, we develop a clear vision, define goals and areas of action, and derive a realistic implementation plan from these. In doing so, we establish structures for governance, compliance, and risk management—while keeping an eye on internal progress, technological developments, and competitor strategies.
Qualification
Qualification
Sharing knowledge, shaping progress
Engineering Automation focus group
In the Engineering Automation Focus Group, we exchange ideas on the potential, tried-and-tested methods, and latest technologies for AI-supported automation in product development. You will learn how to effectively integrate solutions into your development processes and establish contacts with companies and research institutions to further develop innovative approaches and initiate joint projects.
Qualification
Learning together & from each other
In this specialist group—initiated by OWL ViProSim e. V.—medium-sized companies and research institutions come together to exchange ideas on current developments, potential, and use cases of generative AI in engineering. The focus is on practical dialogue with the aim of learning from each other and discovering concrete starting points for their own applications.
Qualification
Educate to innovate
We qualify your teams with target group-oriented training courses – practical, inspiring, and tailored to the challenges of modern engineering. Whether you are just getting started, looking for specialized knowledge, or seeking strategic vision: our training courses impart in-depth expertise in AI in engineering – modular in structure, up-to-date, and closely oriented to practical application.
Cooperation
Cooperation
Shaping the future with generative AI
At the GenAI Incubator, visionary companies meet leading researchers, creative talents and cutting-edge technologies – with the aim of making generative AI strategically and practically usable. In interdisciplinary teams, coached students work together with companies to develop AI prototypes in a short period of time – quickly, flexibly and with directly added value for real-world challenges.
Cooperation
Developing solutions
In cooperation projects, we work with you to develop tailor-made solutions for engineering automation – with clear added value for your application. Rapid prototyping and agile development allow ideas to be tested in a targeted manner, validated at an early stage and gradually transferred to productive operation.
Cooperation
Exploring the future together
Join us and our strong partners from science and industry in shaping the future of engineering. Do you have ideas or challenges that can be solved in research projects? We are open to forward-looking collaborative projects and will submit them to funding programmes run by the state, federal government or EU. The Performance Centre and its network act as experienced partners throughout the process. In these projects, we combine cutting-edge research with practical development to create new solutions for engineering automation.
Cooperation
Utilise tools and infrastructure
Our testbeds enable you to safely develop, test and iteratively optimise AI applications in engineering under realistic conditions – even before they are put into productive use. You benefit from specialised software and hardware setups, close ties to various tool providers and a manufacturer-neutral infrastructure – for scalable, controlled and data-integrated solutions without vendor lock-in.
Cooperation
Operating AI reliably
Efficient AI requires more than just powerful models – it requires clear processes, a robust infrastructure and organisational anchoring. In this cooperation format, we work with you to develop practical MLOps environments. We support you in all activities throughout the MLOps lifecycle. This includes setting up efficient development and operational processes, establishing transparent data and model management, deployment, and the secure, operational running of your AI applications.
Our training courses prepare you and your team for the use of AI in engineering – practical, up-to-date and directly applicable. You will learn the most important methods, tools and best practices for introducing and further developing AI-supported engineering processes in your company.
We cover all relevant phases of product development, from innovation management and requirements gathering to the creation of consistent system architectures and model-based validation, including practical examples from AI projects in engineering. The focus is on specific use cases to ensure that each training course remains relevant, exciting and up to date.
Our trainers have a high level of expertise in the latest AI topics in engineering and are actively involved in specialist communities, conferences and research projects. They bring the latest findings from research directly into practice and demonstrate in the training courses how engineering automation can significantly facilitate and accelerate development tasks.
You can find out more about our AI for Engineering training courses at the IEM Academy.
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