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(Lemgo / Aurich) One of Germany's largest manufacturers of wind turbines, ENERCON, has joined forces with Fraunhofer IOSB-INA in Lemgo to develop a groundbreaking innovation for wind turbine (WTG) control: The new ultra-high-speed communication system has now been successfully implemented and tested at the end of 2022 at the Staphorst wind farm in the Netherlands in a model type E-138 EP3 wind turbine with a rotor diameter of 138 meters and a rated power of 4.26 MW. The new technology improves the control of so-called feed-in converters. With the increasing number of regenerative energy sources, powerful feed-in converters play a central role. Thus, the new Fraunhofer technology is an important building block for a robust energy grid of the future. The system makes it possible to control the active and reactive power feed-in of wind turbines into the energy grid in real time and more precisely than ever before, enabling potential for greater efficiency.

(Lemgo / Rheda-Wiedenbrück) Based on a mobile 5G campus network, the Fraunhofer Institute from Lemgo and Wireless Consulting GmbH successfully carried out the planning and commissioning of a 5G campus network at Venjakob Maschinenbau GmbH & Co KG.

The Fraunhofer Institute in Lemgo and the Department of Economics at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences (THOWL) have founded a new research area at the Innovation Campus in Lemgo. The focus is on the development of new business models based on added values that lie in the product and production data of primarily medium-sized companies. Data-based value chains are becoming increasingly important because more and more data is being generated in automated industrial production environments. To enable medium-sized companies in particular to generate more value from this data in the future - for example, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and via new business models - Fraunhofer and TH OWL are combining the perspective of economics with more than ten years of expertise in intelligent automation.

(Lemgo) The signs for manufacturing companies in the SME sector are pointing to crisis mode: sustainable resource and energy efficiency as well as ideas to combat the shortage of skilled workers are the order of the day. Here, impulses and innovations also come from science. Mona Neubaur, Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, was convinced during a visit to Lemgo that this transfer works excellently in East Westphalia-Lippe, for example with the SmartFactoryOWL.