Future Automotive Production Conference 2022

A quantitative method for the investigation of digitized surfaces after fine milling machining.- Fatigue life of refurbished fiber reinforced thermoplastics.- Manufacturing of lightweight parts by sandwich foam injection moulding using recycled thermoplastics.- Innovative design concept for the safety of battery housing.- Thermocouple fabrication by cold plasma spray.- A variability model for individual life cycle paths in life cycle engineering.- Increase the ressource efficiency by evaluation of the effects of deep rolling within the design and manufacturing phase.- Approaching a smart, and sustainable interior for future mobility solutions.- Fast curing biobased epoxy hardener for rtm applications.- Investigation on the bond performance in hybrid wood-plastic components.- Atmospheric pressure plasma sources for additive manufacturing.- Design freedoms of lattice structures for interlock bonding.- Assisted facility layout planning for sustainable automotive assembly.- Assembly and through life services in the context of urban cloud manufacturing.- AI-based performance prediction and its application on the design and simulation of cooling plates for battery electric vehicles.- Innovative module design with active and passive cooling of traction batteries.- Contribution to the optimization of metal-composite lightweight structures in context of digital linked development processes.- Cluster of excellence living, adaptive and energy-autonomous materials systems (livmats).- Potentials and design of a virtual production system for intelligent battery cell manufacturing.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Dröder is Professor of Manufacturing Technologies and Process Automation, as well as Head of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) at the Technische Universtität Braunschweig. He is also a member of the board of the Open Hybrid LabFactory. His research interests include technological and automation issues in current and future process chains, with a focus on the implementation of production strategies that enable the efficient and flexible manufacture of functionalized products.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Vietor is Head of the Institute for Engineering Design (IK) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig as well as a member of the board of the Open Hybrid LabFactory. His research focuses on the integration of product development and production technology, the integration of product development and industrial design, and the use and further improvement of CAx processes in product development.