Steinbeis Transfer Center Manufacturing Technology & Machine Tools

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
  • Quality and manufacturing measurement 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
      • Processing of fiber-reinforced plastics and composite structures
  • 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
  • Quality Technology/Manufacturing Measurement Technology
    • Development of measurement and monitoring strategies for production
    • Assessment of production variances
    • Process and condition monitoring
    • Execution of production-related measurements for quality assurance
    • Vulnerability analysis

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

Further Location

Produktionstechnisches Labor (in cooperation with the University Ulm):
Prittwitzstrasse 10, building F, room 05 or rather 023
D-89075 Ulm
Fon:     +49 731 502-8182
Fon:     +49 731 502-8203
Mobile: +49 179 9135544
Fax:     +49 731 502-8454

Media

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

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Contact

Am Wachberg 24, D-86497 Horgau
Phone: +49 8294 306410
Fax: +49 8294 802646
E-mail: SU0323@stw.de
Management: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Kaufeld
(Stand: 01/08/2024)

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