OUR COMPETENCE FIELDS

 

Additive Manufacturing

Smart Materials

Lightweight Technologies

Industry 4.0 & Automation

 

Additive Manufacturing

Individual lightweight structures through a combination of plastic 3D printing and 3D fiber reinforcement /// Self-learning, adaptive 3D printing with autonomous robots (Adaptive Additive Manufacturing)

Smart materials

Integration of sensors and actuators in complex components using 3D printing (Smart Material Integration) /// Process and material evaluation for quality assurance

Lightweight technologies

New technologies for sustainable components made of bio-polymers and bio-fibers (e.g. PLA-fiber-reinforced PLA, Bio-SMC...) /// New strategies in plastics recycling /// Research on economic production methods for fiber-composites /// Research into smart products through targeted integration of nanofibers in polymer components

Industry 4.0 & Automation

Machine learning and adaptive control of complex manufacturing processes /// Automated, high flexible assembly processes for the economical and resource-efficient production of small product series /// Research on human-machine interaction