ZVEI (www.industrial-production.de)
Electrifying Ideas Award 2025 presented
The ZVEI has chosen the winners of the Electrifying Ideas Award 2025. With this award, the German electrical and digital industry honors ideas that can help us move towards a climate-neutral future.
read more...ZVEI (www.computer-automation.de)
Electrifying Ideas Award 2025 presented
The ZVEI has chosen the winners of the Electrifying Ideas Award 2025. With this award, the German electrical and digital industry honors ideas that can help us move towards a climate-neutral future.
read more...TU Dresden (www.computer-automation.de)
Supercomputer - inspired by the human brain
The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) says it has reached an important milestone in the development of neuromorphic computer systems: the 'SpiNNcloud' supercomputer has gone into operation.
read more...ZVEI (www.computer-automation.de)
Nominations for Electrifying Ideas Award
A total of six companies were nominated by the ZVEI for the third Electrifying Ideas Award, selected by an independent jury of high-caliber experts from business, research and society.
read more...Hybrid structures with high strength (www.polyformnext.de)
New joining technology for lightweight construction
Researchers at TU Dresden have succeeded in permanently joining fiber composite structures with metal sheets using laser welding, completely eliminating the need for additional joining elements.
read more...Combining plastics and metals (www.polyformnext.de)
Standardized joining processes for lightweight construction concepts
Two university institutes are jointly developing "multifunctional interfaces" to make it easier to join fiber-reinforced plastics with metallic components.
read more...Unlimited profile lengths possible (www.polyformnext.de)
New system for functional lightweight structures
For the first time, a new lightweight modular system will enable the continuous production of profiles that are theoretically unlimited in length and 45 percent lighter. At its heart is a modular process chain with which functional lightweight profile structures can be manufactured in a fiber-thermoplastic-metal mixed construction.
read more...Lightweight construction from Dresden (www.polyformnext.de)
Fiber composite impeller wins AVK prize
At the International Composites Congress 2018, a radial impeller in a modular metal-fiber composite design was awarded the AVK Prize.
read more...Innovations for vehicle construction (www.polyformnext.de)
Excellence Award for high-tech lightweight construction applications
Dr. Robert Böhm received the Dresden Excellence Award for his habilitation thesis "On the damage-tolerant design and layout of textile-reinforced composites for high-tech lightweight construction applications".
read more...Project Amareto (www.polyformnext.de)
Saxony pools research expertise
Universities receive start-up funding for joint project. The state of Saxony is providing 5.5 million euros for a joint research project between three technical universities and a Fraunhofer Institute.
read more...Automated shearography (www.polyformnext.de)
Automating shearography for fiber composites
In the joint research project Autoshear, scientists from the ILK in Dresden and the SKZ Würzburg are further developing shearography. The aim is to develop an automated measurement and evaluation system for the objective assessment of defects using this measurement technology.
read more...Industrial policy in Germany (www.polyformnext.de)
Position paper "Leading supplier for lightweight construction"
Lightweight construction technologies combine high economic potential with resource conservation, material and energy efficiency. In order for Germany to become a leading provider, lightweight construction must become one of the central topics of industrial and innovation policy in the new legislative period, German industry associations demand in a cross-sector and cross-material position paper.
read more...Textile Conference 2016 (www.polyformnext.de)
Better coating, more sustainable finishing
New polymer input for fibers, threads and textile surfaces. Finishing, refinement, coating and polymer materials - the intersections between the textile and chemical industries are large.
read more...Lightweight car construction (www.polyformnext.de)
Hybrids made of fiber thermoplastic and metal for the series
A process that combines metallic and thermoplastic components to create lightweight structures is aimed at large-scale production. This is based on special thermoplastic tapes.
read more...Rapid prototyping (www.polyformnext.de)
Rapidtech and Fabcon: Excellent ideas
As part of Rapidtech 2015, the "Student Design and Engineering Award" was presented for the ninth time to students who work with additive manufacturing processes and use the resulting customization options.
read more...Recycling electric vehicles (www.polyformnext.de)
Recycling research Relei becomes lighthouse project
The joint project Relei (production and recycling strategies for electromobility for the material recycling of lightweight structures in fiber-reinforced plastic composite hybrid construction) was awarded the title of lighthouse project by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
read more...Using new materials (www.polyformnext.de)
Study on electromobility and lightweight construction
For the study "Opportunities and challenges in resource-efficient lightweight construction for electromobility", scientists from the Forel research platform funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research interviewed 240 business and science experts from various sectors.
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