Planning or expanding laboratories is a complex and time-consuming undertaking. Mistakes can occur quickly and are often difficult to rectify afterward. With the "LabPlanner" from Fraunhofer IPA, users can overlay the new infrastructure directly into the existing environment. This allows for early t…

At the beginning of the year, a new technical building was put into operation in Stuttgart-Vaihingen for the Fraunhofer Institutes IGB and IPA. The new construction houses labs, test fields, and technical facilities in the fields of robotics, resource efficiency, and laboratory automation, food and…

The Fraunhofer IPA has developed a proximity sensor based on silicone and carbon nanotubes (CNT) that detects objects and determines their position. Using the materials and printing process, the sensor is highly flexible, cost-effective, and suitable for large surfaces. Industry and research partner…

As a physicist, book author, columnist, moderator, but above all as a cabaret artist, Vince Ebert approaches the big topics of our time in his current stage program "The Future": work, life, Sudoku, and thermodynamics. In this series, only production technology and automation are missing. He now ded…

Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto practice in academia, and its ad-vantages can also benefit industrial applications. The worldwide ROS-Industrialinitiative has been using ROS, the Robot Operating System, to this end. To consolidate Europe’s dominance in advanced manufacturing, ROSIN w…

Today, laboratories often resemble a traditional manufactory structure. Devices and processes are not connected and valuable samples are often processed manually by employees. For a long time, this system has been sufficient to maximize the innovative strength of laboratories. However, they now gene…

Coinciding with Medtec Europe, Fraunhofer IPA, in cooperation with the trade fair organizer UBM and Landesmesse Stuttgart, will establish a new conference format. The specialist conference "Medical Device Manufacturing" aims to bring together international experts from research and industry and deve…

Even minor contaminations cause significant quality losses in many industries. For example, if contaminants reach microchips, spacecraft, or lenses, it can lead to defective or faulty end devices. To prevent damage to high-quality products, companies isolate the affected manufacturing and assembly s…

Fully automated with intelligently programmed robots and tools, cooperatively working with humans and robots in a team, or entirely manual for assembly tasks requiring high precision and small batch sizes: Fraunhofer IPA will showcase technologies at this year's international trade fair for producti…

Since 2012, Fraunhofer IPA has annually honored outstanding developments in purity technology with the "CLEAN!". The aim of the award is to promote pioneering applications and technologies in the industry and establish them in the market. Companies can still apply for Clean! 2016 until August 19. Th…