How can valuable empirical knowledge be preserved and utilised for future generations? This is the question that Team B is working on for 8 weeks in the Smart Lab in cooperation with Haake Technik GmbH.
Since 1987, the family-run company from Vreden has been ensuring that people can work safely with machines. This always involves foresight: dangerous situations must be prevented before they even arise. The company, which attaches great importance to its employees and their long-term loyalty, wants to anticipate the challenge of demographic change with the same foresight. The experienced colleagues from all areas of the company bring decades of expertise to the table. In order to secure this valuable knowledge for the future, Haake Technik promotes the targeted transfer of knowledge to the next generation.
The use of artificial intelligence will support this in the future. However, the focus of the R&D sprint is less on the purely technical solution – even if aspects such as data protection and IT infrastructure remain important – and more on the question of how employees can be motivated to share their knowledge. How can knowledge inventories be efficiently recorded, sensibly structured and validated?
Students and the company discussed these and other questions at the kick-off and defined a common focus. The aim is to develop a pilot concept that can be tested in practice and further developed if successful.
