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…

Continuously more compact components, higher power densities, lower emission values, safety systems, driver assistance systems, and lower fuel consumption are some of the buzzwords in the modern automotive sector. And all of this with decreasing manufacturing costs? An ambitious goal that has noneth…

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…

It all started with a car wash system. An IPA department was just working on optimizing this system when a request came from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology asking whether the institute could deal with cleanroom technology. That was 30 years ago, when the golden age of home computers…

30 years ago, the IPA first dealt with cleanroom technology. How did it start, Mr. Gommel?

Before the department focused on cleanliness technology, it was a general store. It did all sorts of things, such as manufacturing microfluids or optimizing a car wash. Then, a request came from the Federal Min…

The first PCs, which appeared on the market in the early 1980s, were bulky suitcases that offered little comfort. Today, every smartwatch on the wrist provides multiples of these dinosaurs. Miniaturization has reached a level that no one could have dreamed of a decade ago. A transistor on an integra…

"Particle Standard" refers to a new cost-effective development of the usage standard for cleanliness testing, which was awarded 1st place at the Fraunhofer Cleanliness Technology Award "Clean 2014" in 2014. The usage standard consists of a glass slide, standardized test particles, and an adhesive fi…

With the Future Work Lab, the Fraunhofer Institutes IAO and IPA are opening a center that will let visitors experience the future of manufacturing. The center will offer tangible demonstrators, expertise development and training programs as well as a platform for scientific exchange, and targets ind…

- 13 exhibits displayed at four trade fair booths in three halls
- Focus on an IT platform for processing near real-time production data
- The workplace, automation and IT infrastructure form a thematic framework
- Presenting the »Flexible sheet metal processing lab« as part of the TRUMPF cooperation

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The cleanroom is a central subject of teaching and research in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen. This article demonstrates how the topic of cleanrooms is addressed in practical-oriented teaching and applied research. It particularly highlights the close cooperation wit…