Department Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Technology

Department

Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Technology

The department "Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Technology", i.e. the Center for Lightweight Production Technology in Augsburg, develops holistic production chains for lightweight structures and assemblies. The aim is a seamlessly data driven and highly competitive full scale production technology to ensure a smooth transition from invention to innovation and industrialisation.

With unique large-scale facilities, the ZLP develops strategies to produce large CFRP components cost-effectively and in high quality. All process steps are investigated, integrated and reproduced on an industrial scale with the appropriate technical infrastructure.At the heart of the facilities at ZLP Augsburg is a robot-assisted research platform. This infrastructure is also available to customers in order to develop and validate production processes together with the DLR in a demand-oriented and flexible manner.

At the ZLP in Augsburg, DLR combines its expertise in structural and materials technology with that in the field of robotics and mechatronics for the production of CFRP components. It is thus pursuing the expansion of Germany's share in the value chain and ensuring this through sustainable technology development. In this way, it acts as a partner to industry, such as aerospace companies.

The ZLP site in Augsburg is located on the university campus in the Augsburg Innovation Park. The immediate proximity to the University of Augsburg ensures easy communication as the basis for sustainable cooperation between DLR and the university. The ZLP is also seen as an important element in the development of the economic structure of the Augsburg region. The "Aerospace Area Augsburg" is an ideal location, as there are important industrial partners in the aerospace industry within a radius of 50 kilometres. The establishment of the Centre for Lightweight Production Technology in Augsburg is being funded by the city, the Free State of Bavaria and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Kupke

Vice Director
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Structures and Design
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Voggenreiter

Head of Institute
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Structures and Design
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart