Manufacturing and Materials Technology (FWT)

Motivation and aim

The development of new products is a central engineering task that can only be mastered on an interdisciplinary basis, i.e. in cooperation between product development, production and materials engineering. This is due to the fact that the component properties required in development are significantly influenced by the individual process steps from raw material or semi-finished product to the finished component. In view of the high level of development of available processes, the associated issues are considered a priority topic for research work in manufacturing technology. The primary objective of the Manufacturing and Materials Engineering research area is process (chain) optimization and control to improve component quality and resource efficiency in additive and machining processes using software-based methods. The research area is divided into the two groups Cutting (Prof. Schulze) and Additive Manufacturing (Prof. Zanger). The common strategic topics are surface engineering, sustainability and digitalization.


Contact:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Volker Schulze

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frederik Zanger

Topics

Precision Machining

Gear Engineering

Additive Manufacturing

  • Turning

  • Drilling

  • Milling

  • Stream Finishing

  • Combined processes for process chain consolidation

  • Simulation of manufacturing processes (chip formation, cooling strategies, particle flow)

  • Software-based process design and control

  • Targeted setting of surface layer states

     

 

 

  • Soft- and hard machining for skiving

  • Whirling and special processes for thread production and polygonal manufacturing

  • Special kinematics for precision gearing

  • Simulative tool design

  • Analysis of local parameters and mechanisms

  • Topography and component quality prognosis and optimization

     

  • Powder Bed Fusion (PBF)

  • Vat Photopolymerization (VPP)

  • Hybrid components through material and process hybridization

  • Development of metal powders and slurries (ceramics, magnets)

  • Digitization of additive manufacturing process chains

  • Process simulation on different scales

  • In-situ-microstructure adjustment

  • Post-processing to set component properties
Contact: Contact: M.Sc. Andreas Hilligardt  Contact:

 

Selected Focus Topics

Spanbildungs-Simulation
Simulation of chip formation

Effizientes Räumen
Broaching

Flexibles Schälen
Skiving

  

Funkenüberschlag
Mikro-EDM

Akustische Regelung
Acoustic process control

Ultrapräzisionsbearbeitung
Ultra-precision machining

Oberflächenstruktur
Surface structuring

  

Bearbeitung faserverstärkter Kunststoffe
Machining of fiber-reinforced composites

Prozessketten in der Fertigung
Process Chains in Production

Prozess_Maschine_Interaktion
Process-Machine-Interaction

Wandlungsfähig
Surface engineering

    

Research Projects

AddEcoJet
Investigation into extending the additive processing limits of sustainable, coarse metal powders in binder jetting 		Dipl.-Ing. Marvin Dornick
01.03.2026 -
30.11.2026
CZS Center KRAFt
CZS Center for Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency via Additive Manufacturing Technologies 		Simon Linnemann, M.Sc.
Marvin Rothmeier, M.Sc.
Marvin Dornick, Dipl.-Ing.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frederick Zanger
01.04.2025 -
31.03.2031
AddInf
Production of metal-metal interpenetrating materials by shaping in a partially liquid state 		Nico Ulff, M.Sc.
01.01.2025 -
30.06.2027