Future Trends in Production Engineering (PDF)

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt. Günther Schuh is Professor and Head of the Department of Production Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, member of the Laboratory for Machine Tools WZL and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Director of the FIR Research Institute for Rationalization and Vice President for Business and Industry at RWTH Aachen .

Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E.h. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Reimund Neugebauer is Head at the Fraunhofer IWU and Executive Director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes IWP at Technical University of Chemnitz. Prof. Neugebauer is a member of the Working Group Forming (AGU), Member of the Scientific Society for Manufacturing Engineers (WGP), Active Member (Fellow) of the International Academy for Production Engineering Research (CIRP) and Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) .
He holds a Honorary Professorship at the Technical University of Kuzbass / Russia, Honorary Doctorate of the Moscow State Technological University Stankin, Honorary Doctorate from Technical University of Brno. In 2005 Reimund Neugebauer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of Germany.

Prof. Dr. hc.  Dr.-Ing. Eckart Uhlmann, Technical University of Berlin, is corresponding member of the College International pour la Recherche en Productique (CIRP), a member of the advisory committee for research programs of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and a member of the scientific Council of the Association of Industrial research Associations e. V. (AIF) and the WGP "German Society for Production Engineering".