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Fraunhofer ISC makes essential contributions to solving the major global challenges: climate change and environmental pollution, rising energy and resource requirements, affordable medical care against the backdrop of population growth and an aging population.
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Every year, some 10,000 people in Germany die from cardiac arrest, even though they could have been saved. In fact, only 15 percent of Germans say they would trust themselves to administer cardiac massage in an emergency situation. Now, an innovative new resuscitation mat is set to help inexperienced first responders resuscitate victims in cases of circulatory arrest. Equipped with integrated sensors, the first aid tool was developed by a team of Fraunhofer researchers in collaboration with students at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich.

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For efficient and targeted glass development, the Fraunhofer ISC has developed and built a worldwide unique system for the rapid automated screening of glass from different batch compositions.

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Fully automatic ball testing system for testing the surface quality of bearing balls. We have designed a robot-supported inspection system that continuously inspects and sorts bearing balls from running production in two measuring stations.

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