Name Detlef Zuhlke Role Engineer | Education RWTH Aachen University | |
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Detlef Zuehlke (born 1949 in Bad Pyrmont) is a German engineer and professor.
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- Prof dr dr h c detlef z hlke dfki top transfer forum industrie 4 0 meets lean
- Del 5 VINNOVA rskonferens 2711 2013 Detlef Zhlke
- Career
- Appointments
- Awards
- Honorary positions
- Selected works
- References
Del 5: VINNOVA Årskonferens, 27/11 2013, Detlef Zühlke
Career
Zühlke studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at RWTH Aachen, worked and obtained his PhD in 1983 at the Machine Tools Laboratory (WZL) at Aachen’s university, RWTH in robot programming. In 1985, he joined German Lufthansa AG. There, he was most recently head responsible of the aircraft maintenance branche.
Since 1991, Zühlke is holder of the chair of Production Automation (pak) at the Technical University Kaiserslautern. There, he founded the Center for Human-Machine-Interaction (ZMMI) in 1998 which provides research and services in the area of the design of human-machine-systems for industrial applications.
Since 2009, he is heading the research area of Innovative Factory Systems at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH.
Zühlke is the main initiator of the technology initiative SmartFactory KL e.V. – the intelligent factory of the future - which was founded in 2005 with well-known partners from industry and science. In the first manufacturer-independent, European demonstration factory, technical infrastructures of everyday life and ideas from practical experience are explored and latest ICT technology is transferred into automation.
The transfer of the principle of the "Internet of Things" into factory environment is the main effort for every of his research areas, this means the "Factory of Things".