Research and Industry-funded projects of Research Unit Production and Maintenance Management.
The PIM Research Unit is involved in manifold research and industry-funded projects focusing on data-driven and human-centered maintenance and related applications and use-cases. The following list is intended to provide a brief overview of all these activities and to illustrate the diverse competencies of the group.
Research & Industry Projects
Ongoing projects:
Finished projects:
PdM@Pharma (01.2022 - 12.2023): Evolution of Prescriptive Maintenance in the Pharmaceutical Industry - Design and Evaluation of a Novel Data-Driven Maintenance Strategy for the Example of a Chromatography Machine
RheinPlan (2021 - 2023): A Rheinmetall-specific maintenance tool for military commercial vehicles
digiTeachVR (04.2022 - 12.2022): digiTeachVR- Digital, integral course for the use of Virtual Reality in Industrial Data and Building Science
WetProRail (2022 - 2023): Weather-based Forecasting Model to Map the Relationship between Weather and Wheel/Rail Contact
CompetenSEE (2023): Hybrid training course for promoting competence development in manufacturing in South-East Europe
DigiTS-ME (2022 - 2023): Lean Industry 4.0 for more competitive production and maintenance in the SMEs
TU-Mars (2020 - 2023): Text Understandability for Maintenance, Availability, Reliability and Safety Management Systems; Text Understandability for Maintenance, Availability, Reliability and Safety Management Systems
PATHFINDER (2022): Hybrid learning paths for professional education in manufacturing
ConnectSEE (2022): Connecting Learning Factories for Promoting Manufacturing Education in South-East Europe
Learn4SMEs (2022): Learning Factory for Improving Digital Competitiveness and Industry 4.0 Readiness of SMEs in Balkans
DigiOrder (01.2021-12.2021): The influence of digital technologies from Industry 4.0 on production key figures and the process efficiency of an assembly department
digiLab IDS (2020-2021): Digital training and laboratory infrastructure for the Industrial Data Science certificate course at TU Wien.
PRESIDE (01.04.2020 – 31.06.2020): Forecasting models for ensuring essential services
RoboNuggets (2020): Provides state of the art learning content for the guided learning platform (GLP) of EIT Manufacturing.
UN.I.CO (2020): Provides interactive, hands-on educational content for guided learning platform (GLP) of EIT Manufacturing.
DigiMain 4.0 (2021): Empowering Digital and Technical Robotics Skills of Maintenance Workforce 4.0
Digital Shift Book 4.0 (2020): Text mining tool for extracting hidden knowledge from digital shift books.
InComSMEs (2017-2019): Increasing the competitiveness of the domestic SMEs in North Macedonia in order to improve their cooperation with foreign investors’ companies.
Maintenance 4.0 (2015-2017): Assurance of product quality and plant availability through a real-time based maintenance control center.
Student research projects, Bachelor, Master or Diploma theses
Different topics in maintenance 4.0 focusing on human-centered and data-driven approaches are supervised by PIM team.
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