Scientific White Papers
Many universities and research & development companies work with item products.
This category will give you an impression about the various application fields in the scientific sector.
Lean Production Building Kits
Guideline and practical tips for using and building cost-effective factory equipment
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The principles of lean production have changed industry forever, improving both performance and flexibility in many diffrent areas of production. Howerver, that is no reason to settle for the status quo – as the name suggests, continuos improvement never stops.
This White Paper summarizes the basic principles of lean production and explains which methods have proven useful in practice.
University Bielefeld
item building kit system used in brain research
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A new approach to rehabilitation in the treatment of brain function disorders is being developed at Bielefeld University.
The OCTAVIS system uses a ring of eight flatscreen monitors to run a rehabilitation program based on a 360° virtual supermarket. Participants in clinical studies and patients embark on a virtual trip to the shops, using the program to train healthy regions of the brain or reactivate damaged regions.
The frame that supports the monitors is made from Line 8 profiles from item.
University Freiburg
17 kg in weight and accurate to the micrometre
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A team of scientists at the University of Freiburg have succeeded in producing high-resolution pictures of animal brain cells. The equipment they are using weighs a good 17 kg, has to be moved with micrometre precision and needs to take pictures from different distances in rapid succession – all without exhibiting any camera shake.
It took the team a great deal of improvisation with the item building kit system before they finally developed a camera mount that satisfied these requirements.
FAU – University Nürnberg
Resistance up to 50 kilovolts
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A young researcher working on her final-year Bachelor project at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) measured the behaviour of a wing profile when exposed to plasma formation and high voltage inside a wind tunnel.
The mount for the wing had to be non-conductive and stay perfectly still under the extreme conditions associated with exposure to voltages of up to 50 kV.
item has a special variant of Line 8 that can meet rigorous material and technology demands such as these – KH profiles.