Machine engineering is one of Germany’s key industries. The importance of this segment has led to the creation of new university degree programs in fields such as production and logistics, process engineering, vehicle/automotive engineering, production engineering and aerospace engineering among others.
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The special requirements placed on trucks and agricultural machinery often make it difficult for engineers to bring them into the electric age. At the Agritechnica agricultural machinery fair researchers from…
… could help reduce costs. Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing metal that could help reduce costs and make more efficient use of resources. The method, developed…
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have improved flaw detection to increase confidence in metal parts that are 3D-printed using laser powder bed fusion. This type…
“SpreeTec next”: Powder Bed-Based Additive Laser Manufacturing System to Give New Impetus to Lusatia Region. The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden will install a Europe-wide…
A new software framework is to make it easier for companies to approve or audit applications based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The framework is being jointly developed by Fraunhofer IPA…
The coating of flexible substrates with functional layers is highly efficient thanks to the roll-to-roll technologies. Crucial for plant operators and ultimately for the price is the coating thickness homogeneity…