further location

Produktionstechnisches Labor (in cooperation with the University Ulm):
Prittwitzstrasse 10, building F, room 05 or rather 023
89075 Ulm
Fon: (07 31) 502 - 81 82
Fon: (07 31) 502 - 82 03
Mobile: 0179 / 9 13 55 44
Fax: (07 31) 502 - 84 54

Services

• Client and problem-based consulting
• Expert reports on technological and commercial decisions and legal/judicial issues (e.g. expert reports, expert reports as part of evidence procedures)
• User-based development
• Testing
• Research
• Sample processing
• Manufacturing concepts and optimization
• Tooling development
• Checking, testing and approval of tooling machines
• Machining and forming technology
• Software development

Key Areas

• Production technology
  • Machining production and metal cutting technology
  • Forming and punching technology
  • High speed machining, high speed milling and HSC in
    • Light metal processing
    • Tool construction and forming
    • High-end processing
    • Plastic processing
• including review and optimization of
  • Technology
  • Machines
  • Controls and sensors
  • Main spindles
  • Tools
• Rapid prototyping (prototype production, e.g., using stereolithography, FDM, LOM and other processes, vacuum casting, digitalization and surface reverse engineering)
• Tooling machines
  • Testing, checking and approval
  • Prototype testing
  • Status monitoring, condition monitoring
  • Process monitoring and control
  • Sensors
  • Manufacturing concepts
• Tooling technology
  • Tooling development, tests and optimization
  • Tooling selection
  • Tooling and technology databases and selection systems

Project Examples

• Machining technology
  • Dry machining of aluminum, steel and titanium alloys
  • Further development and coating tests on drill and machining tools
  • Machinability testing on aluminum wrought alloys
  • Development of machining technology for rocket engine parts
  • Optimization of disc milling processes in the machining of copper and stainless steel alloys at high rotation speeds
  • Development of drilling technology for CFRP components and CFRP composite designs
  • Optimization of titanium machining using plunging
  • Machining tests on GJV (GGV processing, vermicular cast iron)
  • Optimization of machining of titanium and nickel-based alloys
  • Ultrasound-based machining of metal components from jet engines
  • Ultrasound-based machining of carbon-based ceramic materials for motor units in satellites
• Tooling machines and machine components
  • Prototype testing of milling machines (modal analysis, machining characteristics, static and thermal characteristics, function testing, noise registers, precision)
  • Tests on the impact of control parameters on contour precision and manufacturing times
  • Determination of the oscillation of motor spindles in machining processes
  • Calibration of an in-process balancing system in motor spindles for long overhanging milling tools
  • Investigations into the reproduceability of exact tooling balance
  • Condition monitoring and process monitoring of main spindles and machine controls in machining processes
  • Machining with robots
  • Definition of application areas for HSC spindle tooling systems (rattling)
  • Development of systems for minimal volume lubrication in machining processes
• Production strategies and production optimization
  • Definition of tooling and machine components for the aerospace industry
  • Minimization of material use in milling components – cut optimization
  • Concepts for developing manufacturing segments, taking into account future products and materials
  • Optimization of high speed milling (machines, tools, programming strategies)
• Software development
  • Software for optimizing drilling and milling processes (tool stress and cutting forces)
  • Tools for documenting process parameters (knowledge management)
• Expert reports
  • Expert reports for the LGe  in Augsburg, Mannheim, Rottweil and Ulm
  • Expert reports as part of evidence gathering procedures