Munich, 11 March 2025 – The WGP (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktionstechnik) is offering certified training courses for employees of manufacturing companies for the tenth time this year. ‘With our academy, we can significantly accelerate the transfer of knowledge from research to practice, as this still takes far too long,’ comments Prof Mathias Liewald, Head of […]

Munich, 09 January 2025 – The WGP (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktionstechnik) has published a freely available position paper on resilience in production. It shows practical approaches on how factories can become more resilient to crises. ‘We are breaking new ground with this scientific paper,’ reports WGP President Prof Michael Zäh from the Institute for Machine […]

Munich, 13 December 2024 – The 14th Annual Congress of the WGP took place from 2 to 4 December 2024 under the motto ‘Production in Transformation – Transformation in Production’. At Chemnitz University of Technology and the Fraunhofer IWU in Dresden, 75 young talents presented their research results on the topics of efficiency in production, […]

Munich, 04 July 2024 – An engineering scientist who not only optimises the performance of almost all machine tools, but who also won an award for his short stories in the Baden-Württemberg state competition for German language and literature: The WGP (Scientific Society for Production Engineering) has chosen a very special winner this year in […]

Kassel, 11 November 2024 – At the autumn conference of the WGP (Academic Association for Production Technology) last week in Kassel, the professors decided to consolidate and clearly expand artificial intelligence and its practical application in production within the WGP. To this end, the association will create its own internal WGP committee from the BMBF-funded […]

Munich, 21 May 2024 – The shortage of skilled workers and young talent dominated the spring conference of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP) last week in Bamberg. For example, the nationwide young talent initiative for school students launched in summer 2023 has picked up speed. It is now receiving prominent support from […]

Munich, 13 February 2024 – In times of digitalisation and rapidly developing new technologies, lifelong learning is a must – for engineers as well as for the men and women at the machines. Since February, companies have been able to bring their employees up to speed with the latest technology at the WGP Production Academy, […]

Munich, January 9, 2024 – At the turn of the year, WGP President Prof. Jens Wulfsberg from LaFT at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg handed over the helm to Prof. Michael Zäh. He had already symbolically handed it over at the fall conference in Kassel in November. In line with the rotation, the head of the […]

Hamburg, December 11, 2023 – Dr. Christoph Hartmann from the Chair of Forming Technology and Casting (utg) at the Technical University of Munich received the prestigious Otto Kienzle Commemorative Coin at the WGP Annual Congress. In Freudenstadt, the 71 professors of production engineering presented the young scientist with the coin for his pioneering research in […]

Hamburg, November 28, 2023 – “Towards a circular economy with technology-based and sustainable production” was the motto of this year’s WGP Annual Congress. From November 20 to 23, researchers and company representatives presented the latest ideas and production technology approaches to master current challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity in Freudenstadt. They covered […]