Lightweight Manufacturing in Saxony

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1 CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE MERGE Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures EXC 1075 Lightweight Manufacturing in Saxony Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E. h. Prof. Lothar Kroll Coordinator Cluster of Excellence MERGE, TU Chemnitz Dean of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Chemnitz Director of Institute of Lightweight Structures and affiliated institute Cetex Head of Fraunhofer Group STEX at IWU Dr. Katharina Schöps, Dr. Jürgen Tröltzsch

2 Lightweight Manufacturing in Saxony Content 1.! Lightweight economy: A key to resource efficiency 2.! Success factor: Crossing disciplinary borders 3.! Saxony: Pole position for lightweight innovations 4.! MERGE: Cluster of Excellence 5. International cooperation outlook Source: 2

3 Lightweight economy: A key to resource efficiency train-km: 11,2 mill cars: 1,1 bill. airplanes: moving machine parts: unimaginably!"#$%"&'"()*+,-" 3000 Mill. t/ a CO 2 3

4 Crossing disciplinary borders as a success factor 4

5 Saxony: Pole position for lightweight innovations!! Developed industry with a long and successful history!! Competitive industry and SMEs in all key sectors!! Competitive research landscape!! Highly developed innovation culture!! Efficient regional innovation policy!! Developed clusters and SME networks!! Active lightweight community, taking initiatives in international networks Source: European Commission (2012): Regional Innovation Scoreboard

6 Saxony: Synergies of Lightweight Specialisations Leipzig Biotechnology Health Automotive Energy, environment Logistics High performance applications Aerospace Semiconductor Dresden ICT Chemnitz Textile industry Machine engineering Automotive industry Production technologies Large-scale production technologies 6

7 Favourable ecosystem for MERGE-Cluster 7

8 Cluster Focus: Merged Technologies Focus! Merging of key enabling technologies, which are already technically mature! In-line and in-situ technologies predestined for large-scale production Metal-intensive technologies Textile-/Plastic-based technologies! Micro- and Nanosystems Integration 8

9 Bivalent Resource Efficiency Strategy General Problems! Increasing prices of energy and raw materials! Climate change by greenhouse effect, global warming Requirements! Energy savings! Mass reduction Approach! Merge Technologies! Lightweight Structures Strategy! Bivalent Resource Efficiency 9

10 The regional research community MERGE works together with:! 25 Principal Investigators and 13 Participating Researchers! Participating Institutes! 14 Institutes of TU Chemnitz, 3 Institutes of TU Dresden, 7 Faculties! 2 Affiliated Institutes of TUC, 2 Fraunhofer Institutes, 1 Leibniz Institute 10

11 Industry partnerships 11

12 Top Class Research Infrastructure Textile/Plastics Metals Smart Systems MERGE Technologies Center 12

13 The National Project Framework BMBF-Programs Programm 2020: futuretex (140) Wachstumskern: ThermoPre (23) Wachstumskern: highstick (16) InnoProfile: PaFaTherm (10) InnoProfile: InnoZug (5) (xx) Number of project partners, involved SMEs from Saxony BMBF: Internationalisation of Top Class Clusters MERGE International Forschungszentrum STEX Kunststoffzentrum Oberlausitz Forschungszentrum Wolfsburg Fraunhofer-Allianz TEXTIL 10 Fhg-Institutes 13

14 Top Class Conditions for students and postgraduates International MERGE Technologies Postgraduate Programme (MT-PP) Junior scientists are essential for a young and creative research area High School Future students Student organisation Bachelor Course Mechanical Engineering International Masters Programme Merge Technologies for Resource Efficiency Interdisciplinary PhD Programme Personal responsibility Key qualifications Future staff for research and industry International framework MT-PP Interdisciplinary Occupational qualifications Postgraduate masters and PhD students 14

15 International MERGE Postgraduate Programme (MT-PP) Interdisciplinary Master course: Merge Technologies for Resource Efficiency Study and do research in multi-national and transdisciplinary groups! Students from all over the world! With different scientific backgrounds! For full-degree or short-term study Study profiles of the Masters Programme As a full degree Master student you choose one profile that fits to your Bachelor degree. Six profiles are available: )".+3/%"41(/12(56%"."-/%"41!"7'(80,3'(91#"1''*"1#(:(;/1/#'.'1%!"#$%&'"#$%()%*+,%+*'- )./*%()0-%'.-(/12()%*+,%+*'- </14%',$1434#0(/12(=1%'*7/,'- 8$'.",/3(>*42+,%"41(?',$1434#"'- 15

16 International cooperations around the world 16

17 Project Example In-line and In-situ Process Chains 17

18 Pilot lines Application-relevant implementation 18

19 Pilot lines Textile reinforcement/ smart systems 89$$6(:'4)-"./(!"0)'*+,(177$);+<( 2',-3$,(415()16$4-1+7(!"#$%&'"()'*+,-"./(!"0)'*+,(%'1&".(( 19

20 Project Example 20

21 International Cooperation Outlook Technologies "! Flexible and integral forming tools/ molds "! Additive manufacturing "! Nanocoating of fibres!"#$%&'(' CAMT + ICT Wroc!aw aw Availability of highly qualified people "! International Master-Program MERGE CXI, Liberec Mio. t/a CO2 21

22 Thank you for your attention! Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E. h. Prof. Lothar Kroll Dean der Fakultät für Maschinenbau der TU Chemnitz Director des Instituts für Strukturleichtbau und des An-Instituts Cetex Head of Professoreship Strukturleichtbau und Kunststoffverarbeitung CEO Federal Cluster of Excellence MERGE Head of Fraunhofer Research Center STEX Reichenhainer Straße 31/33 Room Chemnitz Phone: Fax: " 22