Scientific society for production technology

The Scientific Society for Production Technology (WGP) is a society for production technology founded in 1987 , which emerged from the University Group of Business Studies (HGB). It represents the research and teaching of production technology within the Federal Republic of Germany. The association is based in Berlin .

Statutory objectives

The purpose of the association is to promote science by holding international scientific conferences and research projects in the field of production technology. Furthermore, the cross-institute, scientific cooperation of the employees at the institutions of the members is promoted through specialist colloquia. Outstanding scientific work in the field of production technology is supported by the WGP by awarding prizes ( Otto Kienzle commemorative coin ) and all research results and information on production technology developments are published promptly in specialist publications. The company thus exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes.

Within the framework of this orientation, which is specified in the statutes, the WGP has set itself the following tasks and goals, which it strives for through cooperation between the institutions and with social and political associations as well as industry:

Advice and participation in the initiation of research projects and framework programs
Presentation of the importance of production and production science in politics and society
Promotion of the next generation of engineers
Initiative and activities in the joint work of science and industry
Innovation through research, development and knowledge transfer
Qualification through scientific training
Strengthening public awareness of production and production science
Strategic positioning of university research
Further development of technical and methodological course content and reform of engineering training

WGP annals

Since 1993 the WGP has been publishing the English-language WGP annals "Production Engineering - Research and Development" in collaboration with all its affiliated professors. In these, WGP institutes report on newly acquired knowledge and innovations in the scientific field of production technology. Up to 2006, 2 volumes of the WGP annals were published annually. They have been published four times a year by Springer Verlag since 2007. The individual publications are also available online on the Springer Verlag website.

History of the WGP

In 1937, the “University Group Business Administration (HGB)” was created as a personal association of university professors with the aim of further developing production technology scientifically and socially. After 1945 the group was reorganized as the “University Group Manufacturing Technology (HGF)”. In the course of time, the institutes of the HGF were confronted not only with traditional research areas, but also with challenges that went far beyond the narrow field of production engineering issues. So winning research fields such as computer-aided product development and design, the work plan , the factory planning and the entire production planning and control increasingly important. The further development of production technologies and their information technology link along the value chain represent new core activities of the production technology research institutes. For this reason, the narrow concept of production technology finally no longer covered the breadth and depth of the research area. That is why the WGP was founded in 1987 as the successor organization to the HGF. Today more than 1000 scientists of production engineering are united in it in the Federal Republic of Germany. Compared to other areas of mechanical engineering, production engineering research is particularly well represented.

The current self-image of the WGP and its members, which adapts to the requirements of current developments, is based on the following principles of production science: