A small German company, founded in 1966, is active in the development, production and distribution of liquid waterproofing systems for construction applications. The products are based on unsaturated polyester resins. This system finds its application in the areas of flat roofs, balconies and parking decks. Additionally the company offers special solutions for connection details and expansion joints. Other application areas are waterproofing in indoor areas, such as commercial kitchens, wet rooms, and fitness and sauna areas.

The aim of this project under the Call:TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07: Digital tools to support the engineering of a Circular Economy, is to develop a digital twin based autonomous automatized dismantling and sorting pre-shredder recycling system (including robotics, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning) for the automotive or machinery industry to secure nearly 100% closed loop recycling in particular with respect to rare and valuable materials. With respect to resource efficiency, closed loop recycling management already plays a major role.

In various industries, the real problem with creating value with AI is the lack of a suitable data basis. For example, media companies produce a lot of content in complex data formats (especially video), unstructured, and not sufficiently documented with meta information. Thus, they often have no overview of their content or transparency within their archives, and many potentials remain unused. At the moment, the best practice is to use the human workforce (up to 50 archivers) to annotate videos, which is very slow, expensive, and not scalable.

The number of electric vehicles that are being registered is increasing significantly each year. The efficient charging of the drive battery is a key technology for the continued success of electric vehicles on the market. In this context, attention has recently turned to transformerless on-board charger concepts. Given the known and considerable leakage capacitance of the battery and the connected high-voltage system, special care must be taken with transformerless chargers to ensure that high leakage current is not generated to ground and through the protective earth (PE) conductor.