Industry working group Smart Surfaces

Main topics:

● Field of tension between component surface and edge zone

● Application of basic knowledge to specific challenges faced by member companies

● Focusing on the functionalisation of surfaces to enhance component properties

 

Main topics:

● Field of tension between component surface and edge zone

● Application of basic knowledge to specific challenges faced by member companies

● Focusing on the functionalisation of surfaces to enhance component properties

 

The advantages of your membership

  • You determine the topics and projects: At our semi-annual working group meetings, the members vote on the initiation and continuation of joint projects. In doing so, we utilise the diverse expertise and experience from various industrial sectors. In addition, we present innovative research approaches focussing on practical applications that could be of interest to you.
  • We implement and coordinate for you: Our scientific staff point out trends, transfer current research results to your application and support you in the realisation of your project. They observe and document current market developments and access our institute's machine tools. Finally, they prepare all project results and coordinate the exchange of results between the working group members.
  • You expand your personal network: At our meetings, you have the opportunity to exchange ideas and share information with market-leading industrial companies. This allows you to expand your network of potential business partners and your customer base.

Become a member of the working group


The most important facts in brief

  • Solution in the stress field of component surface and edge zone
    • Investigation of the relationship between roughness and wear.
    • Use of targeted microstructures and edge zone designs.
    • Development of smart surfaces with new manufacturing processes.
    • Investigation of roughness and wear and their interrelationships.
    • Development of targeted microstructures and edge zone designs to improve application behaviour.
    • Utilisation of information-bearing surfaces.
  • Target group

    Contact

    • Automotive
    • Bearing/joint technology
    • Medical technology
    • Engine construction
    • Turbine/pump construction
    • Railway/rail transport

    Contact

    • Coating technology
    • Measuring technology
    • Labelling technology
    • Tool manufacturer

    Contact

    • Managing Director
    • Technical Director
    • Executives, project managers and technologists from the areas of
    • Research and development
    • construction
    • Quality management
    • Production development
    • Product innovation and management
  • Objectives of the working group
    • Identification of trends and future development topics
    • Pre-competitive research and development
    • Transferring specific findings to new applications
    • Realising smart surfaces with new manufacturing processes
    • Discussion platform for interface considerations on
    • Interactions between surface quality and wear
    • Interactions between edge zone properties and service life
    • Overcoming the application hurdles of new processes in surface finishing technology
  • Members

    All members of the Industrial Forum Tools and the entire Production Innovations Network can be found here.

     

Contact:

M. Sc. Henke Nordmeyer
Research Staff
M. Sc. Henke Nordmeyer
Research Staff