Sensorik Summer School

https://b-horizon.com/career

Mohammad Kabany, Managing Director of B-Horizon GmbH, provided technological details with the presentation “Artificial Skin for AR/VR and Smart Living Applications”. His company, B-Horizon GmbH, combines competencies from automotive engineering, microelectronics, sensor technology as well as hardware and software development. In his presentation, he emphasized that “the essential part of every development work is: Why does humanity need the function of our technology? Not the technology is key, it’s the function.” He also showed what it takes to create an artificial skin: It’s to measure pressure, temperature and humidity all at the same time. A highly complex effort around the questions “Which value do I measure, how can I separate or combine them, which materials should I choose?”. Amongst others our participants were highly interested in how sustainability can be united with the projects of B-Horizon and what the next steps for the company are.

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B-Horizon GmbH is a company for sensor and semiconductor development. With the slogan “B-Horizon – We create technologies for tomorrow” they combine different business segments which are equally driven by the innovative ambition and passion for the development of new technologies.

https://www.eesy-ic.com/karriere

When it comes to connecting sensors with ICs, there is no way around eesy-ic GmbH in our network. The Erlangen-based design house has been serving small companies from the sensor, automotive, consumer electronics, measurement and control technology, medical technology and automation sectors since 2012. Dr Konstantin Schmid gave us an insight into “Analog Signal Processing for Temperature, Current, and Light Measurement”. He described the sensor technologies from resolver, encoder, hall-sensor over NTC-and Shunt-resistor to photo-diode and explained why optimized ADC design is key.

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eesy-ic GmbH develops ICs in the fields of analog, digital, mixed-signal and RF as well as ASICs and corresponding test solutions. The company is a technical leader in the field of the fastest A/D-converters.

Bildquelle: eesy-ic GmbH

https://www.continental.com/de/karriere

Continental gave exclusive insights into their work at the TechBase Regensburg. Their team showed how digitalization accompanies us in our daily life and how sensors facilitate it. Therefore we had a live demonstration at a vehicle brought to us to see how the digital car key works. In their lab the software aspect of the technology was illuminated more precisely. An excellent way to show the development steps of the technology.

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Continental Automotive GmbH is a supplier of braking systems, systems and components for powertrain and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, automotive electronics, tires and technical elastomer products.

https://www.emft.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer-emft/career.html

“Cells are multifunctional sensor platforms”, explained our host. At the Fraunhofer EMFT, a varied program awaited the participants: Besides exciting impulses on cell-based sensor technologies, we also entered the labs and saw the research work of Prof. Dr. Joachim Wegener and his team. With their research health issues like allergies can be explored and understood, animal testing can be minimized and the speed of Covid-19-test results can be increased. Not only visually impressive: the storage of cells!

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Fraunhofer EMFT is a research institution for microsystems and solid state technologies. Research fields are the development of sensors for physical, chemical, medical and environmental applications in silicon, thin film, thick film and plastics technology.

https://www.micro-epsilon.de/career/jobs

What do Lego bricks, smartphones and washing machines have in common? “We make them possible“, stated Doris Wild-Weitlaner in her introduction. Especially the diversity of sensor development and the company tour impressed the participants of Sensorik Summer School:
As a hidden champion, Micro-Epsilon produces sensors for all kinds of applications: from food monitoring and shipping over wind industry to aerospace. With their contribution to the world’s largest reflecting telescope EELT, the company sets new standards in position measurement. A unique eye-catcher was the clean room, which was designed according to Micro-Epsilon's own standards, but also the brand new center for mechatronics. The participants were probably among the first groups of visitors there.

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Micro-Epsilon Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG provides high precision sensors, measurement devices and systems for displacement, distance, position, color and temperature, with the latest focus on 3D sensors, starting from the basic idea through to series production – all from one source and for almost all industries.

https://www.csagroup.org/de/uber-uns/karriere

A new building was also waiting for our group at the CSA Group: The new testing laboratory at the Plattling site is the largest branch of the CSA Group in Europe with 12,300 m² and one of the most state of the art labs in the world right now. Our participants learned about the manifold measuring and testing technologies to make life saver. Be it battery testing, gas testing, hazardous locations like for oil platforms et cetera. The "Live Execution of an EMC Test" under the guidance of Seamus Murray from CSA Group Bayern GmbH was certainly one of the highlights of the Summer School. In the impressive facilities participants clearly recognized the complexity of testing.

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CSA Group Bayern GmbH is one of the largest testing laboratories in Europe and is accredited and recognised by various organisations as an official testing and certification
institute. As part of the CSA Group, we offer you a strong global network, fast response times and sound
international market expertise.

https://jobs.vitesco-technologies.com

At Vitesco Technologies, Philippe Grass gave an insight into the importance of sensor technology: “They are in every control unit – you will always need sensors to do controls – even in AI you need them.” He described the innovation process (innovation = invention+market success) and guided the participants through the maturation process of a sensor. For this we visited the labs, got information on the choice of the right sensor for the final application and had a live demo at a vehicle to see how sensor technology is applied in the customer product. One key take away of our visit at Vitesco: Sensor predevelopment is a versatile, multidisciplinary field that will shape our future sustainably.

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The demand for sustainable mobility is growing worldwide. Hence, Vitesco Technologies provides the right drive technologies: clean, smart and electrified.
Based in Regensburg, Germany, with almost 40,000 employees at around 50 locations worldwide, we pursue the objective of playing a leading role in the electrification of vehicles. To achieve this, we follow a clear strategy emphasizing sustainability, we live our brand and our values: Passionate, Partnering and Pioneering.

https://www.reinhausen.com/de/karriere

Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen welcomed Sensorik Summer School in their futuristic Co-Creation Center. A introduction of the company was followed by the demonstration of the ETOS system by MR. After the company tour our participants were impressed by the huge facilities and products. The expertise on transformer technology and its versatility also showed in Dr. Jürgen Schübel’s lecture “Advanced Sensing in Electrical Power Systems – Challenges and Solutions” giving deep technical insights.

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Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen GmbH is a specialist in production of transformer tap-changers as well as control and monitoring electronics for power transformers.

https://www.sensorik-bayern.de/stellen

We enjoyed our 16th Sensorik Summer School and are looking forward to next year!


In our network, we pool the expertise of more than 90 globally leading companies and institutions – in their capacity as outstanding technology partners, they drive the development of intelligent sensor systems “made in Bavaria”. We support our members in operational and strategic issues.

Thank you for your visit, we hope to see you soon!


Strategische Partnerschaft Sensorik e.V.
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