Production at the Leading Edge of Technology / Lecture Notes in Production Engineering (PDF)

professorship of Adaptronics and Functional Lightweight Design in 2014. He has also been Director of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology since October 2014. Prof. Drossel is an Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and Board Member of the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working. He is also consultant for several Science Foundations.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Hintze studied Mechanical Engineering at the TU Braunschweig, where he became research assistant working on gear grinding and dressing. In 1985 he moved to the TU Hamburg (TUHH) and received his doctorate in 1990 dealing with the model-based chip break assessment. Subsequently, he was responsible at Krupp Widia for the development and rapid prototyping of indexable inserts, the test field and demonstration center. In 1999 he took over the production engineering department of IPMT at the TU Hamburg. His main areas of research include machining technologies for lightweight structures, e.g. for CFRP and titanium, and extremely hard machining as well as digitalized machining systems. Since 2008 he is in a research cooperation with Fraunhofer IFAM and has developed innovative solutions for the automated production and assembly of large structures on a scale of 1:1. Since 2009 Prof. Hermann Lödding and Prof. Wolfgang Hintze lead the IPMT together.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Ihlenfeldt studied Mechanical Engineering at the TU Braunschweig and received his doctorate from the TU Chemnitz in 2012. In 2015 he took over as head of the Chair of Machine Tools Development and Adaptive Controls at the Institute of Machine Tools and Control Engineering (IWM) - now the Institute of Mechatronic Engineering (IMD) - at the TU Dresden. Since 2016 he is also head of the Department of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU and a member of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP).
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Nyhuis studied Mechanical Engineering at the Leibniz University of Hannover. He obtained his doctorate in 1991 at the Institute of Production Systems and Logistics (IFA) under Prof. Wiendahl. In 1999 he completed his habilitation in the field of production logistics. From 1999 to 2003 he worked for Siemens AG in the SPLS Supply Chain Consulting devision. As a partner, he was responsible for supply chain management and supply chain design. In 2003 he was appointed to the Leibniz University of Hannover. As Managing Director of the IFA, he represents the research and teaching fields of factory planning, production logistics, production design and labour science. Since 2008 he has also been managing partner of the Institut für integrierte Produktion Hannover gGmbH (IPH). Prof. Nyhuis is a member of the Scientific Society for Production Technology (WGP), the Academic Society for Work and Industrial Organization (WGAB) and of the Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech). Since July 2020 he has been Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Leibniz University Hannover.