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

Services

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

Key Areas

  • 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

Project Examples

  • 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

 

 

Media

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

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Contact

Stadlerstraße 14, D-09126 Chemnitz
Phone: +49 371 335 628 50
Fax: +49 371/335 628 99
E-mail: SU1772@stw.de
Management: Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Spieler
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Nendel
(Stand: 12/12/2025)

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