Timo Kordass successfully completed his doctorate at the institute FAPS by defending the topic of “Laser-assisted process for the selective metallization of epoxy resin-based thermosets to increase the integration density for three-dimensional mechatronic package assemblies”. The steady increase ...

The Institute of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems organised its Alumni Networking Event (FANE) again this year. However, due to the restrictions imposed by Corona, this was the first time that it was held in digital form. All participants were given access to the live streamed program...

Benjamin Gutwald joined the research sector Automated Productionsystems as a research assistant on October 1st 2020. Mr. Gutwald is a trained electronics technician and studied industrial engineering and electrical engineering as bachelor degrees. He then completed master’s degree in electrical engi...

Moritz Retschkowski joined the research sector Automated Productionsystems as a research assistant on October 1, 2020. After his bachelor's degree at the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen, he completed a master's degree in electrical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erl...

In the innovation competition "Electronics for energy-saving information and communication technology", the SiC4DC concept, which was developed across the research sectors, was successful. In order to meet the rising energy demand of digitization due to the increasing use of electronics, sensor tech...

With the successful oral doctoral examination, Tallal Javied completes his doctoral thesis on "Totally Integrated Ecology Management for Resource Efficient and Eco-Friendly Production". The subject of the doctoral thesis is the web-based energy management tool TIEM, which offers a wide range of moni...

Eike Schäffer receives the Best Paper Award of the 22nd International Workshop on Configuration on behalf of the author team. The paper "A development approach towards user-centered front-ends for knowledge-based engineering configurators: a study within planning of robot-based automation solutions"...

The institute FAPS welcomes the EXIST spin-off project "SofTiss Anatomics" funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi). The project is part of the research area Biomechatronics and is supported by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke as mentor. Among the three scholarship holders Hannah Riedle, Simo...

In the course of series production of automotive traction drives, stators in hairpin technology are increasingly coming into focus. Due to the high number of contact points, the laser-based contacting of wire ends plays a major role in hairpin stator production. To realize a stable laser welding pro...