Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics

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Fraunhofer Institute for
Industrial Mathematics
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Fraunhofer Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Kaiserslautern
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Engineering
Areas of expertise: Mathematics , computer science
Basic funding: Federal government (90%), states (10%)
Management: Anita Schöbel
Employee: 330 (as of 2020)
Homepage: www.itwm.fraunhofer.de

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), based in Kaiserslautern, is an institute of the Fraunhofer Society .

Its activities can be assigned to applied research and development in engineering and natural sciences . It deals with research and user problems with a special focus on medium-sized companies. The researchers create computer simulations of technical processes, because these have become indispensable tools for the design and optimization of products, services, communication and work processes. The offer of the ITWM ranges from software components to advice and support to system solutions. The ITWM not only uses simulation software, but also develops it itself, often in cooperation with leading software companies. The aim is to make software applications easy to use for customers and to find tailor-made solutions.

history

In the early 1980s, the Technomathematik group was established in the Mathematics Department at the University of Kaiserslautern . In 1991 a center for industrial and business mathematics was established there. On the initiative and with the support of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Institute for Industrial Mathematics was founded in 1995. In 1999 the institute was evaluated by the Fraunhofer Society and in 2001 incorporated as the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM.

Research and Development

Computer-aided processes are used in almost all areas of industry and business, even in smaller companies and in craft. However, the right software is often not available at all or the standard off-the-shelf software is not very suitable for special issues. The ITWM sees its task in further developing mathematical models and their methods, providing innovative impulses and putting them into practice together with industrial partners. The customers and cooperation partners come from various industries, for example the vehicle industry, mechanical engineering, banking, electronics and computer industry and the textile industry.

The core competencies of the ITWM are the classic disciplines of applied mathematics, such as numerics, differential equations, statistics, stochastics and optimization. In addition, there are mathematically oriented theory fields that have emerged as border areas between mathematics and technology. The main areas of work are:

  • Financial math
  • Visualization of large amounts of data
  • Optimization of production processes
  • Virtual material design
  • Quality control

Cooperations

The Fraunhofer ITWM is a member of the Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology , to which 17 other institutes belong. It is also a permanent guest member of the Fraunhofer MATERIALS group . This association bundles the competencies of the twelve institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with a focus on materials science.

The institute is part of a network of national and international collaborations. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Chalmers University in Gothenburg founded the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research Center for Industrial Mathematics, or FCC for short, in August 2001. The ITWM and FCC benefit from the close contact, because the cooperation makes it easier for each institute to access the partner country's market. The research focus of the ITWM lies in the areas of virtual material and product design, process simulation, financial mathematics and diagnostic systems, while the FCC focuses on biostatistics, finite element methods, quality control for communication networks and the analysis of sensor and measuring systems.

The institute is also a member of the Fraunhofer Vision Alliance , an association of institutions of the Fraunhofer Society on the subject of image processing and machine vision .

Infrastructure

A total of around 330 employees (including 60 doctoral students) as well as around 160 research assistants and interns work at the institute. They mainly come from the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, physics, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. The proportion of women has increased significantly in recent years, it is 20 percent in the scientific field and 31 percent among doctoral students. Since it was founded in 1995, the ITWM's operating budget has increased from € 1.64 million to around € 31 million in 2019. Three quarters of the income comes from orders from industry and from publicly funded research projects. The Fraunhofer ITWM is currently (as of March 2020) headed by Anita Schöbel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/de/ueber-fraunhofer-itwm/im-profil.html
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 14.5 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.itwm.fraunhofer.de
  3. ↑ Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology (IuK)
  4. ↑ Fraunhofer Group for Materials, Components (VWB)
  5. ↑ http://www.fcc.chalmers.se/

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 8 ″  E