Projects at a glance

The aim of the "DATARAMP" research project is to develop a comprehensive digital process chain for 5-axis milling of thin-walled components based on manufacturing and quality data.

The aim of the BMWi-funded consortium project "value chAIn" is to develop a cross-value chain error management based on intelligent data-based decision support systems. The system is intended to enable manufacturing companies, in the project group focused on the commercial vehicle industry, to improve development and production processes and to optimize the performance and availability of their products.

The aim of the FQS-funded research project "reQenrol" is to enable manufacturing companies to systematically improve the flexibility of their employees. In the course of the project, an assistance system is developed that supports competence-based workforce scheduling and work-based training in production. For workforce scheduling, the system provides recommendations for a competence- and quality-based allocation of employees to different activities.

The goal in the project is to enable enterprises to use high-performance services operating at the network edge. The technologies around network edges can be used in applications for smart cities, robotics, public safety, sensors and manufacturing. The research project "AI-NET-ANIARA" focuses on application areas around sensors and manufacturing technologies.

In a design study, concepts for additively manufactured grinding wheels were developed and implemented that enable the targeted supply of cooling lubricant through the grinding wheel body into the contact zone between tool and workpiece. Effective supply of the coolant prevents the thermal damage to the material known as "grinding burn". The design concept has been successfully manufactured in initial tests.

The aim of the "HYEFFMILL" research project is to achieve significantly higher performance and more economical milling molds for bipolar plate molds.

In an internal research project, the FH Aachen, the Fraunhofer IPT and Präwest GmbH have produced a prototype of an additively manufactured hydrogen combustion chamber. What makes it special is the design of the combustion chamber: The patented MicroMix process uses many small flames compared to conventional combustion processes with a few large flames. This new design significantly reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) to the level of fossil combustion.

In order to further develop production technologies for PEM electrolyzers, the Fraunhofer IPT, together with other Fraunhofer institutes, is designing a decentralized reference factory as a flexible, multidirectional, technology-open solution for large-scale production in the "FRHY" project.

In close cooperation with the machining industry, the project team of the EXIST – Transfer of research project "Quantify" is developing a software platform that can predict the quality of complex components based on machine data and indicate quality defects at an early stage. In this way, inspection times and production costs can be reduced significantly.

Patients who have lost their breasts due to breast cancer or another serious illness can have them permanently and cosmetically inconspicuously reconstructed with the help of implants. However, the silicone implants commonly used today often provoke defensive reactions from the body and, in the worst case, can even tear. Together with BellaSeno GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT is therefore developing an automated production system for breast implants made of a polymer structure that enables breast reconstruction from the patients' own tissue.