In 2018, the Institute of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems invited its former and active employees to the annual alumni meeting, the FAPS Alumni Networking Event. After the informative and committed presentation of the eleven technology fields of the institute, Professor Franke gave a...

Benjamin Lutz joined the research department System Engineering at FAPS as an external research associate on October 1. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.) program at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. During his studies he supported the research activities at FAPS through his project a...

From 22 to 29 September 2018, the Climate Protection Week 2018 took place in the city of Erlangen and in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt. In the course of this week, numerous events were organized at various locations in the district, which were dedicated to holistic climate protection and educat...

The E|DPC 2018 will take place from December 4 to 5, 2018 in Schweinfurt at the Maininsel Conference Center. Take this opportunity to register as a conference participant or exhibitor at www.edpc.eu   About E|DPC Since 2011, the international Electric Drives Production Conference and E...

The current development of electric drives not only focuses on reducing manufacturing and failure costs but also on increasing efficiency and power density. The latter is mainly achieved by the use of permanently excited machines since these machines operate without the electrical generation of the ...

During the March 2018 FAPS Colloquium, we honored the founder of our institute and esteemed doctoral supervisor Professor Feldmann. Besides a short review of his work by his successor, Professor Franke, the FAPS singers offered their congratulations in the form of an a capella sung birthday song. Th...

In his research work, Erik Hultman developed an automatized process chain for large wave energy converters (WEC), which are designed by Prof. Mats Leijon, head of the Institute for Electricity at the University of Uppsala. The WEC is based on a translational permanent magnet synchronous motor and ca...

Alternative densification processes for digital printed nanoparticular inks used to produce planar MID Various dispersions based on nanoscale metal particles such as silver or copper are currently used for additive printing processes in electronics production. The requested electrical conductivit...

As of September 1st, 2017 Alexander Hensel assumes the position as the director of the research group electronics production. As a research associate, he has been conducting research at the FAPS Chair since 2016 in the field of interconnection technology in the field of power electronics and plasma-...

For the second time only - but already now in a tradition that has become dear to us - the soccer team of the FAPS chair took part in the soccer tournament of the Scientific Society for Production Engineering (WGP), this time organized by the IWF Braunschweig. In comparison to last year's participat...