Each of the Fraunhofer Institutes has a Board of Trustees to advise the management of the Institute and the Management Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. They include personalities from academic life, business and government. The members of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer IPT in the year under review were as follows:

• Dr.-Ing. Uwe H. Böhlke, Lonza AG, Basel/Schweiz
• Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Dilthey, ISF Welding Institute, RWTH Aachen University
• Dr.-Ing. Matthias Fauser, Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH, Traunreut
• Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Dieter Franke, Management Partner MPower GmbH, Stuttgart
• Dr. Markus Weber, Carl Zeiss AG, Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen
• Dr.-Ing. Markus Hilleke, inform GmbH, Mainz
• Manfred Nettekoven, Chancellor of the RWTH Aachen University
• Dr.-Ing. Stefan Nöken, Hilti AG, Schaan/Liechtenstein
• MinRat Hermann Riehl, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
• Karl Schultheis, MdL, Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Landtag, Düsseldorf