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

• Automation concepts for lightweight construction processes
• Contract planning for handling technology and special purpose machinery
• Customer-related automation concepts

• Manufacturing of pliable semi-finished products
• Handling complex fiber-reinforced structures and preforms
• Gripping systems for handover to lightweight construction processes
• Interlinking of processes for automated production of lightweight construction components
• Special purpose machinery and fixtures for process automation

• Design and development of interlinking solutions in the field of injection molding
• Component marking devices in high-volume aluminum die casting processes
• Preheating modules for fiber composite semi-finished products
• Gripping systems for flexible sheet materials (room temperature, preheated)
• Picking and packing systems for geometrically indeterminate products
• Testing facilities for components and semi-finished products

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
• Spinning a Convincing Yarn (Transfer 4/2014)
  Steinbeis helps develop fully automated process for using bonded materials in a circular-knitting process
• Cast from a single mold (Transfer 1/2014)
  Steinbeis contributes to the development of a novel battery holder made of a textile/plastic hybrid material

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)