Sonika has a mixed educational background in Instrumentation engineering and production engineering. She enjoys working on smart products and smart services, not just the research side of developing methodologies for them but also actually bringing them to life. Working with and managing data is also part of her portfolio. She currently works in the department of virtual product creation specializing in the division of Information and Process Control.

 

What is the pop in your job? "To research about new innovate technologies and apply it to bring about healthy changes in industries and the environment."

What drives you? "Research, innovate and to apply technologies, to see them come to life drives me to work on such technologies"

What is your passion? "To solve problems by engineering and developing prototypes and products"

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK is your applied R&D partner in production science with a focus on automation and digitalization. We offer system solutions, individual technologies and services for digitally integrated production. We provide comprehensive support to companies along the entire value chain: from product development, planning and control of machines and systems, including technologies for parts manufacturing, to comprehensive automation and management of factory operations. The department Virtual Product Creation has two divisions Model-based Engineering and Information and Process Control. Our portfolio of services ranges over independent technology surveys and optimization of digital applications (e.g. CAD, CAE, Digital Mock-Up (DMU), Digital Factory, immersive engineering with augmented and virtual reality, PDM/PLM, artificial intelligence/machine learning and engineering data analytics with big/smart data) through to optimization of information standards and IT integration architectures. Our experience is targeted to improve your company situation with an agile approach: starting with a state-of-the art analysis of the currently situation followed by the development of the future capabilities for engineering. We can help you make the successful switch to a modern, fully digitized organization operating with high efficiency and maximum effectiveness.