Production center in Hanover

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Production technology center of the Leibniz University Hannover, PZH
Production technology center of the Leibniz University Hannover, PZH
Production center in Hanover
Consist: since 2004
Facility location: Garbsen
Branch offices: Stade , Witten
Type of research: Basic research, applied research
Subjects: Mechanical engineering, production and logistics
Areas of expertise: Factory planning, production planning, production design, logistics, ergonomics, manufacturing technology, forming technology, automation technology, transport technology, assembly technology, micro-production technology, medical technology, forming machines, machine tools, materials science
Employee: Around 260 scientific employees and 100 employees in technology and administration (as of 2015)
Homepage: www.pzh.uni-hannover.de

The Production Technology Center Hannover (PZH) is an institution of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Leibniz University Hannover and one of the largest research centers for production technology in Germany. The seven production engineering institutes belong to the PZH

with a total of around 260 academic and 520 student employees. The institutes cover all aspects of production technology in research and teaching. In addition, the engineering service provider TEWISS - Technik und Wissen GmbH , the material testing institute for materials and production technology and companies and start-ups are located at the PZH . The latter are often spin-offs from the institutes.

history

As early as the 1980s and 90s, some professors from the production engineering institutes at Leibniz University tried to find a solution for the space constraints in their institutes, which were then housed at different locations in Hanover. Hans Kurt Tönshoff in particular was committed to this. In 2001 PZH GmbH, today TEWISS GmbH, was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of the university. It should help to unite university research on production technology - at that time six institutes - under one roof and to be able to better use synergies. As part of a public-private partnership with the state and federal government, PZH GmbH contributed a third to the financing of the planned joint construction.

The new building in Garbsen, northwest of Hanover, which the institutes were able to move into in 2004, was designed by the architect Gunter Henn with a central glass hall so that employees can meet across institutes and connections are created between all facilities; around 22,000 square meters of usable space are available for research and teaching.

2013 was from the PZH GmbH the TEWISS - technology and knowledge GmbH , which holds the building management continues, but now mainly the areas of special design and publishing has expanded.

At the end of 2013, Annika Raatz took up her chair at the newly founded Institute for Assembly Technology. It completes the production technology at the location.

The first of the “Mittelstand 4.0” competence centers set up by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with the motto “With us digital!” Started at PZH in January 2016 . It is intended to prepare small and medium-sized companies from Lower Saxony and Bremen for the challenges and potentials of Industry 4.0.

Opposite the PZH, the second part of the "Campus Mechanical Engineering" of the Leibniz University Hannover is being built in Garbsen, which from 2019 will accommodate all other institutes of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Organization and financing

The seven institute directors form the board of the PZH; the board spokesman changes annually. The PZH institutes largely finance their work from third-party funds . In 2017, the PZH raised almost 22 million euros in third-party funding. This sum does not include state funds raised.

Production technology Hanover

Together with its regional neighbors, the IPH ( Institute for Integrated Production Hanover ) and the LZH ( Laser Center Hanover ), the PZH forms a unique production technology cluster. LZH and IPH were founded out of the university in the 1980s in order to be able to transfer research results to industry more quickly, and are both located in the Marienwerder Science Park in Hanover. The three institutions jointly operate the news portal phi - Production Technology Hannover informs.

research

The PZH involved in basic research, for example, within Collaborative Research (SFB) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft be promoted. One SFB is currently located at the PZH, and scientists from the PZH are involved in others. In addition, value is placed on the transfer of knowledge to companies, for example through pre-competitive research within the framework of the AiF , through industrial working groups, joint projects and a large number of bilateral research assignments.

Collaborative Research Centers at the PZH

The scientists of the Collaborative Research Center Tailored Forming , which has existed since summer 2015, are working on first joining solid components made of different materials and then forming them. This approach could make completely new, tailor-made hybrid high-performance components possible. Bernd-Arno Behrens, head of the Institute for Forming Technology and Forming Machines (IFUM), is the spokesman for this special research area.

The Collaborative Research Center Gentelligent Components in the Life Cycle expired in 2017 after twelve years. With the development of communication-capable components, machines and systems that can also "inherit" their properties, he has created a prerequisite for Industry 4.0 . Out of him, the Production Innovations Network PIN was founded in 2015, an industrial network in which they work together to implement the potential of digitization . The speaker was Berend Denkena, head of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Machine Tools (IFW).

The Collaborative Research Center Transregio Planar Optronic Systems PlanOS also expired in 2017. His goal was to develop flexible polymer films with optical sensors that can register pressure, temperature, humidity, but also molecular changes. Since this optronic sensor system does not contain any electronics, it can also be used for spatially resolved, cost-effective measurement where there are electromagnetic interference fields. The speaker was Ludger Overmeyer, who heads the Institute for Transport and Automation Technology (ITA).

Overarching research topics at the PZH

  • IT-supported production & Industry 4.0: The first of five competence centers for SMEs 4.0 nationwide has been located at the PZH since the beginning of 2016. The scientific basis for this has been laid since 2005, among other things, by the special research area “Gentelligent Components”, in which communication-capable, sensitive components, machines and systems are researched. A working group with companies, the PIN, emerged from this SFB as early as 2015.
  • Resource efficiency : Sustainable concepts such as continued use, reuse, recycling can be applied equally to tools, chips or conveyor belts; Another example is the need-based adaptation of cooling lubricants, which reduces the energy consumption of a machine tool by a good third. The subject is represented in the courses offered by the lecture “Sustainability in Production”.
  • Medical technology : Many of the medical technology projects that are being processed at the PZH were started as part of the Collaborative Research Center for Biomedical Technology, which expired at the beginning of 2015 after twelve years. Among other things, bioresorbable magnesium alloys were developed that dissolve in the body as soon as a fracture has healed, for example, as well as endoprostheses whose lifespan has been significantly extended.
  • Dismantling of nuclear facilities : At the PZH, scientists are working on dismantling the internals of decommissioned facilities in their contaminated and often difficult-to-access surroundings so that nobody is harmed and as little radioactive waste as possible is produced. Wire saw technologies in particular are used to cut steel and steel composite materials. Electron beam and water jet technology, welding and cutting are processes that were partially developed specifically for the dismantling of nuclear facilities.
  • Technologies for aerospace: At the PZH, research is also carried out on production challenges in aviation, such as the machining of CFRP-titanium combinations. A branch in Stade, in CFK Nord in the immediate vicinity of the aviation industry, deals with the economical production of CFRP components. Once a year the international “Machining Innovations Conference for Aerospace Industry” takes place in the PZH.

Future laboratory: production and society

At the beginning of 2016, the PZH started a "Future Laboratory: Production and Society" with a series of lectures in which, together with Julian M Allwood, Niko Paech and Harald Welzer, renowned pioneers and lateral thinkers discussed the connection between climate change, resource overuse, production and current lifestyles. At the same time, the annual PZH magazine on the subject of “Visions of the Future. What future are we producing? ”This includes an overview of“ ReUSE ”research projects at the PZH. The future laboratory was / will be continued in 2017 and 2018 with lectures by Michael Braungart and Michael Hetzer, among others . The latter presented his climate-neutral manufacturing company, elobau.

The institutes and their main research areas

Entrance area with list of institutes
  • IFA: The Institute for Factory Systems and Logistics examines logistical and organizational relationships in industrial companies and supply chains. It also operates the IFA learning factory. The IFA is headed by Peter Nyhuis.
  • IFUM: In addition to massive and sheet metal forming processes, the Institute for Forming Technology and Forming Machines researches resource-saving machine technologies and drives and deals with material characterization and simulation. The IFUM is headed by Bernd-Arno Behrens.
  • IFW: The Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Machine Tools develops functional surfaces, improves tools, designs machine tools and optimizes the production organization. Since 2011 the IFW has had a branch with a focus on high-performance production of CFRP structures in Stade. The IFW is headed by Berend Denkena.
  • IMPT: The main goal of the Institute for Micro-Production Technology is to develop high-performance sensors and actuators in the micro-range so that they can be produced efficiently. Hans Jürgen Maier (IW) is acting as head of the institute.
  • ITA: The Institute for Transport and Automation Technology researches intelligent solutions to efficiently transport goods and raw materials and develops new fiber optic technologies. It is headed by Ludger Overmeyer.
  • match: With a focus on automated assembly, flexible handling and robot technology, the Institute for Assembly Technology covers a central area of ​​production technology. The head of the institute is Annika Raatz.
  • IW: New materials should have tailor-made properties. The Institute for Materials Science develops and characterizes them and supports them in their application. The underwater technical center in Hanover is also part of the IW. The IW research area FORTIS (joining and surface technology) is located in Witten (North Rhine-Westphalia). The Institute for Materials Science is headed by Hans Jürgen Maier.

Web links

Commons : Production Technology Center Hannover  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of the PZH web portal of the PZH. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Information on the DFG funding ranking for production technology on page 157 Online version of the DFG Funding Atlas 2015 , ISBN 978-3-527-34110-8; accessed on July 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Institute presentation in the annual report of the PZH 2017 Annual report of the PZH 2017, page 90, on the web portal of the PZH. Retrieved May 14, 2018 (PDF).
  4. ↑ Numbers and facts in the annual report of the PZH 2017 Annual report of the PZH 2017, page 56 (PDF); PZH web portal. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Overview of all actors on the PZH web portal of the PZH; Home page. Accessed May 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "The 1990s - hard cuts, the professional realignment, bright spots in Garbsen and the start of the Bologna Process"; Page 76 in: Andrea Kleeß: Faszination Maschinenbau , Hanover, October 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-048204-5
  7. ↑ Numbers and facts in the annual report of the PZH 2017 Annual report of the PZH 2017, page 57 (PDF); PZH web portal. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ Facts and figures "Location" in the annual report of the PZH 2015. (PDF) Annual report of the PZH 2015, page 60, on the web portal of the PZH. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ Offer from TEWISS Verlag Website from TEWISS Verlag. Retrieved May 14, 2018
  10. ↑ "Now with assembly technology!" Report on the start of the Institute for Assembly Technology 2013 Magazine pzh2014 "My first day" on the PZH web portal. Retrieved July 12, 2016
  11. ↑ The SME 4.0 Competence Center for Lower Saxony and Bremen, "digital with us!" Center website. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  12. ^ Campus Mechanical Engineering of Leibniz University Hannover Campus website of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Leibniz University. Retrieved May 14, 2018
  13. ↑ Facts and figures "Third party funding" and "Structure" in the PZH annual report 2017. PZH annual report 2017, page 57, on the PZH web portal. Retrieved May 14, 2018
  14. ↑ phi: Produktionstechnik Hannover informs , the platform for production research from Hannover web portal phi. Retrieved May 14, 2018
  15. ↑ Collaborative Research Center Gentelligent Components at the University of Hanover
  16. ↑ Video: An introduction to PlanOS Video of the SFB PlanOS. Retrieved from youtube on July 12, 2016
  17. ^ Website of the Production Innovations Network , accessed on July 12, 2016.
  18. ↑ PZH research focus IT-supported production & Industry 4.0 web portal of the PZH, accessed on July 12, 2016
  19. ↑ Film about the sustainability lecture at the PZH Contribution on the portal of Initiative Wissenschaft Hannover, accessed on July 12, 2016
  20. ↑ PZH research focus on resource efficiency, web portal of the PZH, accessed on July 12, 2016
  21. ↑ Film about a bioresorbable magnesium mesh for the heart Article on the portal of the Hannover Science Initiative, accessed on July 12, 2016
  22. ↑ PZH Research Focus Medical Technology web portal of the PZH, accessed on July 12, 2016
  23. ↑ PZH research focus on the dismantling of nuclear facilities web portal of the PZH, accessed on July 12, 2016
  24. ↑ Machining Innovations Conference 2016 MIC 2016 website, accessed on July 12.
  25. ↑ PZH research focus on aerospace web portal of the PZH, accessed on July 12, 2016
  26. ↑ Overview and download of the magazine pzh2016 Future Visions : What Future Are We Producing , ISBN 978-3-95900-063-5 Online version on the PZH web portal. Retrieved July 14, 2016
  27. ↑ Magazine article ReUSE or: Creates cycles as a pdf article in the magazine pzh2016 (see above). Online version on the PZH web portal (PDF). Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  28. ↑ Announcement poster and link to the video recordings of the future laboratory Production and Society web portal of the PZH. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
  29. ↑ Branch office Stade: High-performance production of CFRP structures Website of the HPCFK project. Retrieved May 14, 2018.