On 16.01.2020 the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems invited its former and active employees as well as cooperation partners from research and industry to the Merks Motor Museum in Nuremberg for the FAPS Academic Award Night (FAAN). The event started with a visit of the museu...

The existing IT infrastructure was expanded in order to further improve the variety of lectures, the technology transfer and the cooperative collaboration. In addition to further investments, two multi-touch monitors were purchased as enablers for intuitive human-machine interfaces for the laborator...

Already at the FAPS Spring Summit 2019, the possible "cell separation" of the former research sector Efficient Systems was indicated, now the idea has been implemented: The extensive competencies of the research sector, which was previously staffed by around 20 colleagues, have been re-clustered and...

For the fourth time, a team from the chair took on the task of competing with other institutes of the Scientific Society for Production Engineering (WGP) not only in research but also in grass ball sports. This year's network meeting with soccer tournament was organized by the Chair of Adaptronics a...

Benedikt Martens will strengthen the research sector Automated Production Systems as an external research assistant as of August 1, 2019. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and his Master's degree in Applied Research at the OTH Amberg-Weiden. Wi...

Fabian Hartner has joined the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems as a Research Assistant on August 1st 2019. He graduated in Industrial Engineering with focus on Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. During his Master studies he ...

For his dedicated teaching activities, which have already lasted for more than six years, and his close ties with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Löwen was appointed Honorary Professor of...

Marcel Sippel has been a member of the research department of electronics production as a scientific assistant since 15.07.2019. He completed his bachelor and master studies in mechatronics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. During his bachelor's thesis he was working on...

Starting on January 7, Martin Sjarov has joined the research sector Efficient Systems. In his Master's Thesis, which was also conducted at the Chair of FAPS, Mr. Sjarov developed and implemented the software for the control of a novel, robot-based automation for the wiring of electric cabinets. ...

Product development is characterized by increasing customer requirements, growing complexity, increased interdisciplinarity and faster development cycles. These challenges are met with suitable engineering approaches and methods that help to integrate the various components and interfaces of the dev...