Hannover, Gemany – Machine tool manufacturer Trumpf has won this
year’s HERMES
AWARD ‒ one of the most coveted prizes in
international industry ‒ for its open location standard product omlox. The
award ceremony took place on July 14 during HANNOVER
MESSE Digital Days.
A jury under chair Prof. Dr.
Reimund Neugebauer, president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, honored the
product “omlox – open location standard” as a global and location-technology
independent solution. More than 60 industrial companies participated in the omlox
project, which provides the first open standard for location services. Omlox
unites all location services available on the market ‒ including UWB, WLAN,
BLE, GPS, and 5G ‒ and transfers these into a uniform coordinate reference
system, making them available for internal use on edge platforms or for global
use in a cloud. Omlox supports for the first time the use of all location
technologies, bundling position data to enable targeted optimization of process
flows. Omlox is an interoperable ecosystem that harmonizes heterogeneous
technical infrastructures, making IIoT and Industrie 4.0 affordable for SMEs.
Professor Reimund Neugebauer,
president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and chair of the HERMES AWARD, said,
“Every year, the HERMES AWARD recognizes an exceptional, innovative
product. This year, we also found a worthy award winner among the numerous
applications: TRUMPF points the way to a versatile, standardized, and flexible
production environment. Jointly developed by 60 industrial companies, it is the
first open and interoperable standard for location services. The integrative
solution makes it easier to use hardware and software from various
manufacturers, right up to plug-and-play, a step that companies consistently
rate as very helpful.”
The ceremony for the HERMES AWARD
2020 took place on 14 July as part of the HANNOVER MESSE Digital Days.
HANNOVER MESSE annually presents
the international technology prize HERMES AWARD as part of the fair. The
competition, which is open to all companies and institutions that exhibit at
HANNOVER MESSE, recognizes products and solutions that demonstrate a
particularly high level of technological innovation. In 2020, the prize was
awarded digitally for the first time due to the corona-prompted cancellation of
HANNOVER MESSE. In 2021, HANNOVER MESSE will again honor the HERMES AWARD
winner at its opening ceremony.
The jury
members:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reimund Neugebauer (jury chairman), President, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Lukas, Undersecretary, German Ministry for Education
and Research (BMBF)
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Bleicher, Chair for Cutting Production Technology,
Institute for Manufacturing Technology and High Power Laser Technology at the
Vienna University of Technology
Ken Fouhy, Chief Editor, VDI Nachrichten
Georg Giersberg, Business Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Werner Götz, Chief Editor, Industrieanzeiger
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Möslein, Vic President Outreach, Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Russwurm, Universiy Erlangen-Nürnberg, Member of
the Presidium, acatech
Udo Schnell, Chief Editor, MM-Maschinenmarkt
Claus Wilk, Chief Editor, Produktion
Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Wittenstein, Chairman of the Supervisory Board,
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