National and International Cooperations

In addition to publicly funded projects, the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Materials Technology at TU Dresden (ITM) carries out a wide range of bilateral research projects that are funded directly by industry and whose results are generally subject to confidentiality agreements. The topics of these projects cover the entire process chain of textile and assembly technology at the ITM.

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Competency Center "Technical Textiles"

The ITM provides consulting advice to textile companies, textile machine manufacturers and companies of adjacent areas, such as the automobile industry, general mechanical engineering, construction industries and the medical sector. We are pleased to offer industrial consulting and cooperations in terms of developing efficient solution approaches, and consequently planning their implementation.

Research Areas

Currently, ten teams of researchers are working interdisciplinarily in the fields of Textile Processes, Interprocedural Areas and Areas of Application. Thus, the ITM is pioneer and initiator of various future-oriented joint projects.

Infrastructure

The ITM is equipped with extensive and modern infrastructure including machinery and technical appliances along the entire textile process chain, which are described in detail in the following sections.

National and International Cooperations of our Institute

Beyond publicly funded projects, diverse bilateral research projects are being conducted at the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Materials at TU Dresden (ITM); these projects are financed directly by industry, thus results are typically subject to confidentiality agreements. The research subjects being dealt with comprise the entire process chain of Textile and Ready-to-Wear Technologies at the ITM, including:

Development of textile processes and mechanical engineering realization as prototypes
Mechanical engineering solutions for technical textiles, particularly reinforcement textiles for lightweight construction and concrete reinforcement, medical textiles, textiles for automobiles, as well as protective textiles
Development of process innovations and new machine designs as well as mechatronic solutions for textile and manufacturing machines
Construction of textile and manufacturing machines designed to meet specific requirements; modeling and simulation of processes
Modeling and simulation of structures and units
Experimental machine analysis and development of customized sensors and measuring systems
Modeling and simulation textile (semi-finished) products
Development, manufacture and analysis of innovative textile products (samples and small series, respectively)
Realization of textile-related physical and chemical tests
Realization of (preliminary) studies regarding textile-specific subjects
Analyses of trends and feasibility
CAE courses for use in Textile and Ready-to-Wear Technology
Advanced training courses comprising the entire process chain of textile products
Creating expert analyses and opinions