Under the motto "The Future of Sustainable Value Creation Systems" the European Technology Platform ManuFUTURE and the Fraunhofer Society held a workshop on the Biological Transformation of Europe's manufacturing industry in Brussels. About 40 experts from industry, politics, and research…

The Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Award for Social Responsibility in Baden-Württemberg (Lea-Mittelstandspreis) recognizes small and medium-sized companies for their voluntary social engagement.

The Lea-Mittelstandspreis is awarded by Caritas, Diakonie, and the Ministry of Economics, Labor, and Ho…

Every three years, the association Interest Group Pharmabau e.V., better known as VIP3000 e.V., offers a platform during a public event where prominent industry representatives meet with interested parties.

This meeting took place in April 2019 at the Gastwerk in Hamburg. The impressive venue alone w…

Microplastics have arrived in society in a double sense. Chemically-analytically, they have already been detected in the gastrointestinal tract, blood, lymph, and liver of animals¹, and even in human stool². Microplastics have also become a political issue for the general public – an incentive for r…

Digitalization - BIM - Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things

The term digitalization is currently present in many - including private - conversations and in the target plans of companies. Developments in digitalization evoke on the one hand enthusiasm about what is possible, and on the other hand, thi…

Wastage could be cut by up to 30 per cent: most compressor units run inefficiently. Numerous leaks allow air to escape, but detecting these is tricky. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA now propose to leverage the benefits of Artificial Intellige…

d.velop Life Sciences, PTS Training Service, and Ingenium Institute for Business Development GmbH aim to collaborate even more closely in the future. At this year's user meeting of d.velop Life Sciences GmbH in Ostbevern, Reinhard Schnettler from PTS and Thilo Gukelberger from d.velop signed a coope…

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The pharmaceutical and medical technology industries are increasingly facing efficiency and cost pressures. The reasons for this are the legal frameworks…

The appearance of the new European monograph on the production of Water for Injections (Water for Injection, WFI) is the result of discussions, analyses, and conversations.

In this monograph, in the Production section, membrane processes for the production of WFI are now listed as an equivalent alter…

Researchers at Fraunhofer IPA have developed an analysis tool that, thanks to self-learning algorithms, detects defects in high-speed manufacturing systems, assists with troubleshooting, and performs automated machine benchmarking. Now, the scientists are commercializing this technology themselves.

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