The importance of DC-Industry is also due to the large number of well-known electrical engineering manufacturers and users from the automotive and mechanical engineering sectors who support the open industrial DC grid. With DC-Industry, this consortium wants to pave the way for the DC factory, in which all energy is exchanged via a DC grid. This will make industrial production more energy-efficient and flexible across all sectors using direct current.

DC-Industrie has designed a low-voltage DC grid to which all consumers, storage units and feeders of a control cabinet, a machine, a production cell or an entire production hall are connected. It is a system with the necessary technical regulations. The main requirements for the devices and structural components used in the DC grid (drive inverters, rectifiers, active infeed converters, switching elements, connectors, cables, auxiliary power supplies, DC/DC controllers, battery storage, decentralized energy generators) have already been tested in systems.

In addition, grid management is included to achieve grid stability and grid controllability. The DC industry thus provides a comprehensive manufacturer-independent system for industrial power supply in production that is open to the market, designed to be future-proof and developed on the basis of current technologies.

The presentation will provide an overview and take a closer look at some of the many aspects of DC-Industrie. The project's systems will also be presented. The aim is to demonstrate to the audience that the technology is tangible.

Prof. Dr. Holger Borcherding, Scientific Director of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, welcomes you to the lecture "On the way to the DC factory - the open industrial DC grid for production".

Date: November 26, SPS Connect - 14:40 - 15:00

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About Prof. Dr. Holger Borcherding

Prof. Dr. Holger Borcherding is Scientific Director of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences.

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Prof. Borcherding is the scientific director and one of the initiators of the DC Industry project. He has been Professor of Power Electronics, Electrical Drive Technology and EMC at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences since the beginning of 2003. Professor Borcherding is a board member of the university's Institute for Energy Research, which was founded in 2017 and uses interdisciplinary research approaches to develop agile energy solutions in the areas of neighborhoods, mobility and working environments. His 20-strong Power Electronics and Electrical Drive Technology working group researches intelligent energy systems and efficient energy use, particularly in industrial applications.

Prof. Dr. Borcherding studied electrical engineering at the Leibniz University of Hanover from 1985 to 1991. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Power Electronics there, where he gained his doctorate in 1999 in the field of mains pulse converters. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as a development engineer for power supplies at Piller GmbH in Osterode/Harz, and from 2000 to 2003 as head of development for servo controllers at Lenze Drive Systems in Hamelin.