Steinbeis Research Center Automation, Lightweight and Process Engineering (ALP)

• Automation Concepts for Lightweight Construction Processes
• Custom Development in the Field of Handling Technology and Special-Purpose Machines
• Customer-Specific Automation Concepts

• Assembly of flexible semi-finished products
• Handling of complex reinforcement fiber structures and preforms
• Gripping systems for transfer to lightweight construction processes
• Process integration for the automated production of lightweight components
• Special-purpose machines and fixtures for process automation

• Design and development of interlinking solutions for injection molding
• Fixtures for component marking in high-volume aluminum die-casting processes
• Preheating modules for fiber-reinforced semi-finished products
• Gripping systems for flexible sheet materials (room temperature, preheated)
• Assembly and packaging systems for products with irregular geometries
• Test benches for component and semi-finished product testing

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Hand Over the Doh (Transfer 1/2023)
  Steinbeis experts use automation technology to pick and pack modeling clay
• Manual Production? Complex Automation! (Transfer 4/2017)
  
• Modular. Adaptable. Efficient. (Transfer 2/2016)
  Steinbeis experts help develop pilot plant for use with orbital coiling technology

Yearbook Steinbeis Foundation´s Transfer Award – Löhn Award

• Complex Automation Replaces Manual Systems in the Production of Circular Knitting Needles (Löhn Award 2017)

Videos

• Complex Automation Replaces Manual Systems in the Production of Circular Knitting Needles (2017)
  The project, which won the 2017 Löhn Prize, demonstrates how the Steinbeis Research Centre for Automation in Lightweight Construction Processes, in collaboration with Prym Consumer, implemented the automated manufacture of innovative circular knitting needles. This successful commercial transfer translated research expertise into flexible, near-series production for the growing handicrafts market.