February 2, 2022

The leading pump manufacturer Wilo and the Competence Center ML2R, represented by TU Dort-mund University, have entered into a strategic partnership. The cooperation partners are working together with the aim of establishing and expanding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Ma-chine Learning (ML) at Wilo with regard to customer benefits, optimized business processes and new product functions. The project teams came together at a kick-off meeting in Dortmund.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies are already a decisive competitive advantage for companies today. Wilo, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pumps and pump systems for building services, water management and industrial sectors, and the ML2R at TU Dortmund University are addressing this with a strategic partnership.

As part of the collaboration, the cross-institutional, agile project teams identify business-relevant use cases for Machine Learning at Wilo and implement them in the form of prototypes. For this purpose, interviews are conducted with Wilo employees and project-based tasks are addressed in a coworking format. All project participants are in close exchange in order to easily integrate expertise into the work process. The Machine Learning methods used correspond to the current state of science and technology, taking into account the efficient and sparing use of resources.