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Paths to a crisis-proof industry

Aachen, May 10, 2021 – The term resilience has been on everyone’s lips at least since the COVID 19 pandemic – especially with regard to the future design of industry. […]

Intelligent monitoring of drilling processes

Hamburg, February 24, 2021 – Around 150 million rivets are set every year in European aircraft construction – two thirds of which are processed by employees using lightweight machines. It […]

Thinking computer science into production engineering
Hanover, 08 February 2021 - Dr Marc-André Dittrich accepted the golden Otto Kienzle Commemoration Medal on Friday - the prestigious award of the WGP, the Scientific Society for Production Engineering, [...]
Creating a data base for sustainable production
Position paper presented at WGP Autumn Conference Aachen, November 9, 2020 - "The debates on sustainable production are currently often conducted rather emotionally than rationally, because there is a lack [...]
Resilient production after the Corona crisis

Aachen, May 05, 2020 – Many companies are currently reducing their production or even stopping it completely. But recently, it is no longer just the conversion to corona crisis times […]

Competitive through intelligent planning

Hannover, 09 March 2020 – The digital transformation in industry is in full swing. Production planning and control (PPS) is not excluded from this. A recent survey of manufacturing companies […]

Green Deal can put production technology in pole position

Aachen, January 21, 2020 – Prof. Brecher, President of the WGP and Head of the Machine Tool Laboratory (WZL) at RWTH Aachen University, comments on the Green Deal: “Brussels has […]

New WGP President wants to urge research on drive solutions

Hanover, December 16, 2019 – From January 1, 2020, Prof. Christian Brecher, Head of the Chair of Machine Tools at the Machine Tool Laboratory WZL of RWTH Aachen University, will […]

WGP develops Production for Future Thinktank
Berlin, November 19, 2019 - At their autumn WGP meeting in Berlin last week, Germany's leading production technology professors adopted a comprehensive agenda to advance sustainable production in Germany. "There [...]
Climate policy offers opportunities for production technology in Germany

Hanover, 24 October 2019 – Addressing climate change is the declared goal of the German government and the industry. “At the German Mechanical Engineering Summit in Berlin last week, Mrs. […]