Research & Development

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Smart factory: Trumpf and Fraunhofer IPA have formed a research alliance that is set to run until 2025. Their goal is to create industry-ready AI solutions for sheet-metal manufacturing. © Trumpf

 
10/08/2020 – Research alliance

Research alliance

Artificial intelligence for industrial use

The Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and the high-tech company Trumpf have formed a research alliance ... By  Jörg Dambock
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13/02/2020

Energy-efficient processing of high-tech metals

The new electro-pulse plant developed at the Institute for Processing Machines (IAM) of the TU Freiberg in the joint project “ELIZE” enables a particularly ... By  Jörg Dambock
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03/02/2020

Faster procedure for flame-retardant plastics

Many modern plastic materials do not come without added flame protection. When developing new plastic compositions of this kind, the aim is to achieve ... By  Jörg Dambock
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29/01/2020

From 2D crystal to 1D wire

No volume, not even a surface: A one-dimensional material is like a wire and has properties that are completely different to its 3D counterpart. Physicists ... By  Jörg Dambock
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08/08/2019

Psychology meets production

How does networked manufacturing deal with malfunctions? That’s the subject of the three-year project “Spaicer”, which has won the German Federal Ministry ... By  Editorial staff