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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. […]

WGP presents new production methods at annual congress

Hamburg, 07 October 2019 – The WGP, the association of leading production technology professors in Germany, has shown new ways for a more environmentally friendly industry at its annual congress. […]

Looking outside the box for more efficient production

Hamburg, 01 October 2019 – Young researcher Dr. Ivan Iovkov yesterday received the renowned Otto Kienzle commemorative coin from the Scientific Society for Production Engineering. During the annual congress, WGP […]

Systematically introducing KI into production

Hanover, 19 September 2019 – Representatives of the Artificial Intelligence Enquête Commission of the German parliament (Bundestag) yesterday received the new actionguideline “AI in production – developing artificial intelligence for […]

WGP Annual Congress 2019 – 30.09 to 02.10.2019 in Hamburg

Ever faster, ever bigger, ever more accurate – WGP Annual Congress „Production at the limits – keeping ahead, securing the future“: Production research is constantly pushing the limits of what is feasible. The “Production at the Border” congress will show production processes that have penetrated areas that until recently were considered impossible, also in terms of methodology, use of resources and interdisciplinarity. But where does the search for new borders lead? […]