11/14/2025 | Industrial automation technology is becoming increasingly digital and is fundamentally transforming manufacturing. Companies can make their production processes more efficient, flexible, and connected — from individual machines to complex production systems. As part of the three-year research project BaSys4Transfer, fortiss and its partners demonstrated how model-based engineering and the use of digital twins enable the transition to flexible, digitalized manufacturing structures.

11/04/2025 | The successful completion of the AI flagship project ‘AuSeSol-AI’, funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, marks the end of three years of intensive collaboration between leading German and European research and industry partners. The aim of the project was to systematically tap into the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for monitoring, controlling and optimising concentrating solar thermal power plants.

10/29/2025 | The global energy landscape is increasingly shifting towards sustainability - and with it the pressure on the electricity grid to evolve and meet new requirements. The energy transition not only brings more renewable energy sources into the system, but also a new complexity: decentralized generation, volatile feed-in, fluctuating consumption. How can stability, efficiency and resilience be guaranteed in such a dynamic environment? And which technologies help to detect faults at an early stage and react to grid fluctuations in real time? We spoke to Dr. Markus Duchon - Head of the fortiss competence field Architectures and Services for Critical Infrastructures. The focus: digital innovations that will make the power grids of tomorrow stable, flexible and intelligent. Whether AI-based fault detection, autonomous grid control or digital twins - for him, technology plays a key role in building intelligent and adaptable energy infrastructures.

09/22/2025 | Safety testing for AI-based systems is often misunderstood. Many assume that once a system has been tested, it stays safe but even the smallest software change can make old test cases obsolete. In this interview, Tiziano Munaro, researcher at Model-based Systems Engineering at fortiss explains why automation and integration are key to keeping up with complexity. He explains how fortiss helps companies with open-source tools for automated test generation, smarter system architectures, and smooth integration into existing pipelines, so that safety testing becomes more scalable, cost-efficient, and future-proof.

09/10/2025 | With the “Bavarian AI Innovation Accelerator,” Bavaria supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, and public institutions in adopting the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). On Wednesday of last week, Minister for Digital Affairs Dr. Fabian Mehring signed the declarations for close cooperation within the partner network of the project, which is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs.