One important part of the mission of the Fraunhofer IPT is to foster the up-and-coming generation of scientists. Young, scientific staff are offered a period of around five years in which to gain an in-depth insight into project work and at the same time, we supervise their progression towards gaining a doctorate. Dissertations which are of enormous benefit to the scientific community of production engineers, take shape here, in close collaboration with the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL at RWTH University Aachen. This is where to find an overview of all of the dissertations submitted since the Fraunhofer IPT was set up: