"Made in Lausitz" New manufacturing technologies for power engineering components and systems

The Lusatia representative Dr. Klaus Freytag of Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke, together with representatives from industry, informed himself about knowledge and technology transfer at the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU) Cottbus - Senftenberg. The event on Friday, July 24th, 2020, focused primarily on research into future-oriented processing technologies in combination with hybrid material combinations.

To cope with the structural change and to expand the technology transfer in the Lusatia, the interdisciplinary research association "SpreeTec NeXt" has organized itself as an interface between the metal and plastics processing industry and science. The holistic view of the value chain, - starting with tailor-made material development for photonic and polymer-based production technologies, through the design of energy technology components with associated digital tools, to production and recycling after use - is the focus of the intended research cluster. Together with initially more than 40 companies, innovative manufacturing technologies for systems of energy conversion, storage and utilisation are to be researched, developed to series-production readiness and implemented in new business fields at the companies in the coming years. On behalf of Prof. Vesselin Michailov (Chair of joining and welding technology) and Prof. Holger Seidlitz (Chair of Polymer-based Lightweight Design), the motivation and design of the SpreeTec NeXt cluster was explained to the guests and successful technology transfer between industry and science was demonstrated using several "best practice" examples. The guests were enthusiastic about the regional and national networking between industry and science. "This is exactly the right way", said Dr. Klaus Freytag, organiser of the structural change.

The BTU's results will also be consolidated in the Institute for Lightweight Design and Value Chain Management, which is currently being established in Faculty 3. The guests were also able to find out about its medium and long-term research content and organization.