In a training initiative, our technology field coordinators and new research area managers took part in a 3-day management training course conducted by Mr. Klaus Kissel from the Institute for Sales and Management (ifsm). The training took place as part of our extensive training program. The first...

Alexander Schlosser strengthens the research sector automation technology as a guest scientist in cooperation with the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences since 02.05.2023. He completed the master's degree program in industrial engineering - mechanical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander...

We have won the Medical Valley Award! In collaboration with the N-squared Lab (Prof. Alessandro Del Vecchio) at FAU, we received €500,000 to work on a neuro-orthosis for the hand. The objective of the "GraspAgain" project is to enable people with hand impairments (for example as a result of a sp...

After three years of pandemy, the Produktionstechnische Zentrum Hannover (PZH) being one of the WGP institutes (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktionstechnik, Scientific Community for Production Technology) welcomed 23 particpants from WGP Forum Office from across Germany in Hannover. From F...

For the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems the year 2022 was full of fascinating and insightful highlights, a variety of new research projects, interesting partnerships, young spin-off companies as well as deserved awards accompanied us throughout the year. With our annual re...

On the 28th of April 2023, the FAPS Professional Network (FAPS ProNet e. V.) invited its members to the FAPS Academic Award Night (FAAN) at the JOSEPHS in Nuremberg. The official start of the event took place in the Zukunftsmuseum in Nuremberg, where discussions about the future could be held during...

An era comes to an end: Last Friday, we bid farewell to our Gertrud, who spent 26 years (‼) at our department and embodied the institute's kind soul. In April 1997, she was hired as an administrative staff member by Prof. Klaus Feldmann and is now being released into what she aptly calls the...

Dr. oec. Lukas Kagerbauer of IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt had the pleasure of engaging with Dr.-Ing. Eike Wolfram Schäffer, CEO of ROBOTOP, in an insightful podcast about scalable 3D/XR sales in machinery and plant construction, skills shortage, and the advantages of 3D/XR technologies. ROBOTOP, a spin-...

The AiF-funded research project "MultiPower" aims at generating customized and highly-integrated electronic 3D power modules using various technologies of Additive Manufacturing. Multi-material photopolymerisation, laser powder-bed fusion and piezojet-printing are applied to create innovative design...

The „ColEP“ research project addresses the collaborative usage of data in electronics production. It examines the advantages of solutions for a collaborative usage of process-, quality- and metadata by both electronics and plant manufacturers. It aims towards applying data from multiple companies fo...