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New dual leadership at the Dresden branch...
For thirteen years, Prof. Dr. Peter Schneider has been responsible for the management of the Adaptive Systems Engineering branch EAS, which is part of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. Since January 1, 2024, the management of the institute has been strengthened by electrical engineer Dr. Wolfgang Felber.
read more...Solutions for quality-assured 3D printing...
Establishing Central Germany as a "3D printing region", opening up new fields of application and making additive manufacturing with thermoplastics economically viable for small and medium-sized enterprises: With this goal in mind, 15 partners have joined forces in the "AddiQ" project. The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS in Halle (Saale) is involved in projects on heavy-duty components for transportation and lightweight, comfortable orthoses.
read more...Secunet receives EU project funding
As part of a project funded by the EU and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Secunet, a cybersecurity company in Germany, is working with partners to develop highly secure and automatically networked edge cloud infrastructure modules.
read more...More and more electric cars are being sold, and the number of electric motors produced is increasing accordingly. At the end of their useful life, these are shredded and then recycled. Individual components and assemblies can no longer be reused. Sustainable value retention strategies to refurbish and recycle electric motors in line with a modern circular economy are still lacking.
read more...Item: Staircase and platform system for...
In collaboration with Airbus, Item has designed a special staircase and platform system as a working platform for tests and a substructure for a measuring arm.
read more...Together with Lauscher Präzisionstechnik and the company Spreitzer, the IFW at Leibniz Universität Hannover is researching a new, flexible clamping system for additively manufactured components with complex geometries.
read more...The increasing use of collaborative robots in industrial production is not only transforming production processes, but also placing new demands on employees.
read more...A scientist at Fraunhofer IPA has found a way to eliminate some of the numerous process steps from the initial sketch to the finished component.
read more...The Bremen Institute of Structural Mechanics and Production Systems is developing a concept that aims to improve human-machine interaction within collaborative assembly scenarios using image-based hand recognition.
read more...ABB today announced an investment of 280 million US dollars for a European robotics campus in Sweden. The facility in Västerås will provide 65,000 square meters of space for automated manufacturing, R&D, customer experience and training centers from 2026.
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