Chair of Machine Tools Development and Adaptive Controls

The Chair of Machine Tools Development and Adaptive Controls is held by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Ihlenfeldt since 2015.

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Overview

Staff

The chair currently employs 31 research associates and 4 technical staff members.

Equipment

The Chair deploys several measurement systems to analyse machines and the components. The staff is utilising high-performance computer technology and up-to-date software.

History

After appointing Horst Berthold to the professorship for Machine Tools and Hydrostatics in 1952, the Institute for Machine Tools was founded in 1954. 1961, the Kutzbach building was inaugurated as the institute’s new building.

Overview

The chair offers a wide variety of lectures, seminars and laboratories regarding design, development and analysis of machine tools and their components, and design of machine control systems. Furthermore, students are offered the possibility to prepare minor and diploma theses or work as undergraduate assistants at one of the research-related projects.

The research activities are divided into the departments of Machine Technology, Control and Feedback Control Systems, and Process Informatics and Machine Data Analysis. There is close cooperation with the Science Area Production Systems and Factory Automation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU.

Projects of the chair include mainly basic research projects of the DFG among research projects of AiF, BMBF and BMWI. The chair is in close cooperation with industrial partners, e. g. Volkswagen AG, DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH and Bosch Rexroth AG. The external funding acquired by research projects adds up to about 2M Euro annually.