Wildauer Maschinen Werke
A very warm welcome!
Welcome to our new website. Wildauer Maschinen Werke is the learning, research and transfer platform for digital skills at the TH Wildau. We are a network of various study programs and research groups that combine to form a virtual case study in the context of a vehicle construction company.
Story of the WMW
For some time now, the TH Wildau has been testing a new approach to practice-oriented teaching in order to offer an innovative type of study - Made in Wildau. Students slip into various jobs during their studies and actively apply and expand the knowledge they have acquired so far. The framework for this is provided by so-called learning factories. These are fictitious companies that are formed by merging different degree courses and applying the respective core competencies of the participating degree courses in the various departments of the company.
One of these learning factories is Wildauer Maschinen Werke (WMW), an automotive company that designs and produces its own real vehicles and also focuses on autonomous driving. A wide range of degree courses such as industrial engineering, business informatics, telematics, automation technology, traffic systems engineering, business administration and mechanical engineering are integrated thematically.
This creates an exciting playground for students to test their own skills and expand them in the further development of WMW products. At the same time, students get to know possible fields of activity in the economy during their studies, which is further enhanced by the inclusion of real practical partners.
The ARP-Wi project
The Automotive Research Platform – Wildau (ARP-Wi) project pursues the overarching goal of increasing university-wide innovation and transfer potential in the field of mobility, transport and logistics. To this end, a prototype vehicle with a novel and patented all-wheel-steered tilting chassis is being developed, which will serve as an interdisciplinary platform for future research and transfer activities (FuT) in the field of action addressed. The existing research structures of the TH Wildau, such as the Mobility Lab, the digital learning factory Wildauer Maschinen Werke (WMW), the ViNN:Lab and the Opp:Lab as innovation spaces, will be integrated into the development process. The expected patents and licences, the resulting know-how of the research staff, which can be used for related research projects, and the parallel business analysis and development of business models will massively increase the university-wide transfer potential in the long term. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, the engineering aspects are structurally and systematically interlinked with social science research, so that a high positive contribution to the entire university in terms of research, teaching and transfer activities can be expected. The funding programme to strengthen technological and application-oriented research in networks of scientific institutions in the state of Brandenburg was set up by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) with funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The AuKoF project
An interdisciplinary team at TH Wildau has received support from the "Innovation in Brandenburg (IiB) 2023" fund. The funding supports the investment project "Autonomous and Cooperative Driving Functions (AuKoF)," a collaboration between the Telematics and Business Informatics research group. Led by Prof. Xiang Liu (Telematics) and Prof. Stefan Kubica (Business Informatics), the funding will be used to acquire state-of-the-art hardware and software. Through the "Innovation in Brandenburg (IiB)" program, the state of Brandenburg specifically supports investments in research infrastructure to strengthen the region's innovative capacity. The approval of funds for "AuKoF" underscores the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in cutting-edge research at TH Wildau. This project aims to significantly expand research in the field of autonomous and connected mobility. Targeted investments in advanced sensor technologies, high-performance edge computing infrastructure, and robust wireless communication systems will create a high-quality research environment. With this targeted enhancement of its interdisciplinary infrastructure, TH Wildau positions itself as a central research and development partner for pioneering technologies in the Brandenburg region.
Future Mobility Center (FMC)
Find out more about the WMW in scientific publications: WMW@ResearchGate
Coordinator
FMC - New Location!!!
Our learning factory now also brings together its local project lectures in the fields of industrial engineering, business informatics, automation technology and much more in one central location:
House 24
2. OG – Room 213-215
Schwartzkopffstraße 9
D-15745 Wildau
WMW in the specialist literature
The speaker of WMW, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kubica, and his doctoral student, Tobias Peuschke-Bischof, have contributed a chapter to the book "Applying Data Science".
This chapter describes the integration of a framework for the management and analysis of vehicle data for model-based driver assistance system development in teaching and research.