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CDU Member of Parliament and Federal Chairman of the Union of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (MIT) Dr. Carsten Linnemann learned this week about Rotte's economic challenges in times of Corona. "Short-time work, delivery difficulties or declines in orders - fortunately, none of this has been an issue for us in recent months," Benedikt Rotte, managing partner, reported at the beginning of the conversation. Nevertheless, the uncertainty in the market, among customers, suppliers and employees was noticeable.

Rotte has been successfully developing and researching Industry 4.0 for years, resulting in solutions that are used in networked production: These include the ‘Smart Factory Panel’ operator assistance system and the ‘Active force-sensitive workpiece carrier’, which won the NRW Craftsmanship Award.

The smallest robot, the LR-Mate, is used by our customers, for example to carry out quality inspections or for deep drawing and cutting. In 2014, we integrated the world's most powerful robot model, with a shoulder height of 4.5 m and a payload of a full 1,350 kg on the 6th axis: the "M2000". Equipped with a complex camera system and a control program, it has since been handling and measuring metal blocks the size of a VW Golf at our customer's premises.

The Corona crisis has the world firmly in its grip. Protective equipment is currently one of the most demanded products worldwide.

In order to protect all colleagues as best as possible and to avoid infection there are also some changes here.

In addition to our award-winning research project ‘Active force-sensitive workpiece carrier’, we developed another essential building block for Industry 4.0: ‘Wireless intelligent sensor systems for product-based control of industrial production systems’ (DiSSproSiP for short).