We cordially invite you to the HNI Forum 2025 on 8 July 2025 at 4 pm. The HNI Forum is a series of lectures focussing on current research trends and projects. The aim is to convey ideas, challenges and solutions in a generally understandable way.
Along the main theme of ‘Unvealing the power of extreme data for Product Creation’, we can look forward to two exciting presentations this afternoon. Prof Iris Gräßler, Head of our Product Creation…
At the meeting of the Board of Trustees on 3 June 2025, full membership of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute's Executive Board was confirmed.
Prof Dr Suzana Alpsancar has headed the associated specialist group ‘Applied Ethics with a Focus on Technology Ethics in the Digital World’ at Paderborn University for four years as a junior professor. Since April of this year, she has continued to lead the department under the new name ‘Philosophy and Ethics of…
Due to growing pressure from regulations, customer expectations and environmental requirements, companies are faced with the challenge of making their added value more sustainable. One approach is the circular economy. It makes it possible to develop products in such a way that the resources used are reduced, their utilisation is intensified and their recycling is ensured. As part of the "ZirkuPro" ("Circular Product Creation" – German: Zirkuläre…
Lisa Petzke, research associate in our Advanced Systems Engineering workgroup, is attending the 34th IAMOT International Conference in Montreal, Canada. This year's conference of the International Association for the Management of Technology is taking place under the overall theme of "Technology Management for Smart, Open, and Responsible Organisations and Ecosystems". IAMOT 2025 aims to improve the state of knowledge through a meaningful…
f.l.t.r.: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Bartelheimer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian von Enzberg, Dr.-Ing. Jonathan Brock, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sauer, Dr.-Ing. Christian Koldewey
11.06.2025
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Heinz Nixdorf Institute,
Advanced Systems Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Jonathan Brock successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of "Systematic approach to increasing the performance of manufacturing processes through process mining" under Prof Dr. Roman Dumitrescu.
Abstract:
Today’s manufacturing is developing into a mass production of customized goods. Approaches like Industry 4.0 generate more data but also increase the complexity in manufacturing. Manufacturers are at risk of losing transparency over…
f.l.t.r.: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Trächtler, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kabst, Prof. (Adj.) Dr.-Ing. Laban Asmar, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Gausemeier, Dr.-Ing. Arno Kühn
11.06.2025
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Heinz Nixdorf Institute,
Advanced Systems Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Laban Asmar successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of "System for the early validation of market performance ideas" under Prof Dr. Roman Dumitrescu.
Summary
Within digitalization, a variety of opportunities exist in established companies to generate market offering innovations for technical systems. Combinations of new technology concepts with possibilities of shaping the business perspective are conceivable. The resulting…
Using simulation in firefighting operations? Until now, this was hardly conceivable due to the computing time required. At CREXDATA, we want to change that: We are now cooperating with FloodWaive, a German start-up from Aachen. The aim is to make data-based forecasts available for critical decisions – faster and more efficiently than ever before with simulations, especially in dynamic risk scenarios such as flood situations.
With FloodWaive, we…
It's almost a month away - the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum's big summer festival is just around the corner. On 6 July, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum invites you to a day full of innovation, technology and interactive experiences. Along the lawns behind the buildings, Fürstenallee and Zukunftsmeile will present exciting experiments, interactive workshops and fascinating insights into their fields of research. Our nine workgroups will bring science…
Data as a driver for sustainability in product engineering
Under the motto ‘Data-driven Industry - Shaping a New Era’, industry and science presented pioneering solutions for digital and sustainable industrial value creation at the Hannover Messe. At the joint stand of the Plattform Industrie 4.0, leading projects presented their solutions for so-called data ecosystems - systems in which companies can share data and use this data to offer…
Extreme weather, extreme data – challenges in fire brigade operations that we are tackling together. At the 75th annual conference of the German Fire Protection Association (GFPA, German “vfdb”), Dr.-Ing. Jens Pottebaum presented solutions from the EU project CREXDATA. For example, he demonstrated the use of AI surrogate models for on-site flood forecasting, which are being integrated in collaboration with FloodWaive. The data for this comes from…
SAIL doctoral candidates from our Data Science workgroup attended the SAIL Spring School 2025 at Bielefeld University from 26 to 28 March. Various tutorials were held under the topic "Innovating AI Evaluation - Beyond Accuracy and Precision". The event offered visitors the perfect opportunity to learn, discuss and network together.
The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has launched the BeSsAr initiative together with the "Product Creation" workgroup - a project to improve the supervision of student theses. The result: a new, practical guide with illustrative examples and many best practices from all chairs of mechanical engineering. This is now being expanded to include a guide directly for students.
Academic staff in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering play a central…
As part of the LEMUR project, Prof. Axel Ngonga, head of our Data Science workgroup, gave a tutorial on "Learning with Multiple Representations (LMR)" alongside Barbara Hammer at the Responsible ML Winter School in Umeå. In addition to Prof. Axel Ngonga, research associate Louis Mozart Kamdem Teyou was also present at the tutorial.
Various approaches were presented at the tutorial, such as the improvement of machine learning through the use of…
Nikit Srivastava, a member of our Data Science workgroup, will lead a workshop at the AI Congress 2025, which will take place on Tuesday, 3 June, alongside other scientists from various universities. The workshop, entitled "KI-Akademie OWL - Perspektiven für eine sichere & inklusive Gestaltung von KI", will provide insights into research in the fields of the safety of AI procedures and the development of AI methods for applications with limited…
