Abstract: A component for a projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography, comprises an optical element and an actuator, which are force-fittingly connected to each other. The actuator at least locally deforms the optical element. The actuator can be configured to minimize the loss in rigidity at the peripheries delimiting the actuator on the imaging quality. A method for designing a component of projection exposure apparatus is provided.

Abstract: The described method as a key enabler for Optical Inspection dynamically uses individual marks like fiducials, barcodes, data matrix codes (“markers”) in the scenes, beyond their basic presence, meaning the change of situation between a first processing status and a subsequent processing status in the processing station. The same markers are simultaneously used for: the identification of components (“comp”); the identification of locations (“loc”); the definition of dependencies between identity and location (valid, invalid); and the automated detection and evaluation of the dependencies.

Abstract: A predictor that projects the service offering available at a point in time on the basis of the agreed technical and contractual rules is provided. The predictor further makes the same available to the operating and scheduling systems of the industrial company and optimizes the prediction parameters by observing and comparing the real situation with the calculated situation, or else indicates unused potential.

Abstract: A powder bed machine including a distribution device, which is configured to be charged with process material. The powder bed machine has a residual powder tank within the manufacturing process, wherein the residual powder tank holds a surplus of the process material. The powder bed machine is positioned on feet and weighing cells are located in the feet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gripping finger (1) for an adaptive gripping device (10), comprising a first strip element (2) and a second strip element (3), which are flexible, and a plurality of spacing elements (7, 13, 16), which are arranged between the first strip element (2) and the second strip element (3). A first end (8) of each of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is movably connected to the first strip element (2) and an opposite second end (9) of each of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is movably connected to the second strip element (3). At least one of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is designed as a curved spacing element (13), the curved spacing element (13) having a predefined curvature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gripping finger (1) for an adaptive gripping device (10), comprising a first strip element (2) and a second strip element (3), which are flexible, and a plurality of spacing elements (7, 13, 16), which are arranged between the first strip element (2) and the second strip element (3). A first end (8) of each of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is movably connected to the first strip element (2) and an opposite second end (9) of each of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is movably connected to the second strip element (3). At least one of the spacing elements (7, 13, 16) is designed as a curved spacing element (13), the curved spacing element (13) having a predefined curvature.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a powder bed machine including a distribution device, which is to be charged with process material and which has a residual powder tank within the manufacturing process, which residual powder tank holds surplus process material. The powder bed machine is positioned on feet and weighing cells are located in the feet.

Abstract: A method and a control device for deflection of a laser beam for laser-based additive manufacturing processes includes first and second orthogonally rotatable mirrors designed to reflect the laser beam and guide the laser beam to an irradiation field. The first mirror and the second mirror are secured on respective first and second shafts, with the first mirror performing a continuous first vibration with a first frequency, and the second mirror performing a continuous second vibration with a second frequency different from the first frequency and/or with a phase difference with respect to the first vibration. Each of the two shafts has a known position such that the first vibration is synchronous with the second vibration. The laser is activated/deactivated upon reaching/leaving an irradiation point. The generated vibrations of the mirrors describe a continuous Lissajous curve.

Abstract: A method and a control device for deflection of a laser beam for laser-based additive manufacturing processes includes first and second orthogonally rotatable mirrors designed to reflect the laser beam and guide the laser beam to an irradiation field. The first mirror and the second mirror are secured on respective first and second shafts, with the first mirror performing a continuous first vibration with a first frequency, and the second mirror performing a continuous second vibration with a second frequency different from the first frequency and/or with a phase difference with respect to the first vibration. Each of the two shafts has a known position such that the first vibration is synchronous with the second vibration. The laser is activated/deactivated upon reaching/leaving an irradiation point. The generated vibrations of the mirrors describe a continuous Lissajous curve.

Abstract: The problem addressed by the invention is to operate an electrical component (16) in a cyber-physical system (22). The adapter device (36) provided according to the invention for coupling the component (16) to a data network (20) of the cyber-physical system (22) comprises: a communication unit (40) which is designed to receive defined request data (24) from the data network (20) independently of the component; an interpretation unit (50) which is designed to determine a command (68) executable using the technical features of the component (16) depending on the request data (24); an assessment unit (52) which is designed to generate a potential solution (70?) to the command (68) comprising at least one control signal (32) for the component (16) depending on operating data of the component (16); and a controller (66) which is designed to issue the at least one control signal (32) of the potential solution (70?) to a control interface (30) of the component (16).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a processing and/or production installation having at least two engineering systems producing a respective output file including an operating variable for at least one component of the installation. The first output file of a first engineering system is transmitted from the first engineering system to a second engineering system. A second output file is provided by a second engineering system using the first output file, and the processing and/or production installation being operated using the second output file. first origin data describing an origin of the first output file of the first engineering system, and second origin data describing an origin of the second output file from the second engineering system.

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot, which is designed to be operated in a working mode, in which a part of the robot is moved at a speed at which there is a risk of injury to a person. The working mode is deactivated if a safety device detects that the person has entered an action region of the displaceable part. The aim is to make close cooperation possible between the person and the robot. A sensor unit determines a position and a posture of the person while the person is outside the action region of the part. A prediction unit determines an action region of the person. A collision monitoring unit monitors whether the two action regions overlap. The robot can optionally be switched from the working mode into a safety mode.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a processing and/or production installation having at least two engineering systems producing a respective output file including an operating variable for at least one component of the installation. The first output file of a first engineering system is transmitted from the first engineering system to a second engineering system. A second output file is provided by a second engineering system using the first output file, and the processing and/or production installation being operated using the second output file. first origin data describing an origin of the first output file of the first engineering system, and second origin data describing an origin of the second output file from the second engineering system.

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot, which is designed to be operated in a working mode, in which a part of the robot is moved at a speed at which there is a risk of injury to a person. The working mode is deactivated if a safety device detects that the person has entered an action region of the displaceable part. The aim is to make close cooperation possible between the person and the robot. A sensor unit determines a position and a posture of the person while the person is outside the action region of the part. A prediction unit determines an action region of the person. A collision monitoring unit monitors whether the two action regions overlap. The robot can optionally be switched from the working mode into a safety mode.

Abstract: For controlling a printed product processing system (100), which comprises a collecting system (1) having a conveyor (11) and a plurality of feed conveyors (13) for creating product collections (4) from products (3) fed by the feed conveyors (13), system configuration parameters (24) which define a configuration of the printed product processing system (100) and production configuration parameters (25) which define the production of product collections (4, 4#) created from a plurality of products fed are detected and run time data are determined during the production. On the basis of the system configuration parameters (24), the production configuration parameters (25) and the run time data, one of a plurality of defined production strategies (26), which in each case determine the control of the printed product processing system (100), is selected during the production.

Abstract: A machine classifier classifies signals of an industrial plant and determines a current state as a result. On the basis of the current state, an audio profile is selected from a number of audio profiles and issued in the form of a synthetically generated acoustic signal to a plant operator. For that purpose, the state of the industrial plant is continuously evaluated and, for example, with the aid of a MIDI sequencer, is used to manipulate different tracks of a piece of music or of synthetically generated artificial background noise. In this way, the plant operator is able to discern intuitively, and optionally even subliminally, divergences from a normal operation of the industrial plant, which can only be communicated to the operator via the overloaded visual channel with great difficulty, or not at all. The plant operator can therefore learn of the state of the industrial plant via the auditory sense or learn that in certain situations the industrial plant does not sound right.

Abstract: A method and system for placing thermoelectric generators in technical installations, wherein an installation model is created from interacting mechatronic objects, comprising type-specific and installation-specific thermodynamic prior and subsequent conditions, and a respective thermal energy difference between the mechatronic objects is taken as a basis for determining possible locations of use for thermoelectric generators in the installation.