Author: Hinnerk Hagenah

This semester, interested students again took the opportunity to get to know the Institute of Manufacturing Technology better during a guided tour. In addition to demonstrations of material characterization on the Gleeble and laser beam cutting, there was information...

Last Friday, our former research assistant Manuel Jäckisch successfully completed his doctorate. The topic of his dissertation is the "Fundamental scientific investigation of the mechanisms of action in vibration-induced forming".

The Insitute of Manufacturing Technology is pleased to announce a successful journal publication in the international journal Production Engineering. The work was produced in close collaboration with the Institute of Measurement Technology and Sensors (MTS) at RPTU Kaiserslautern Landau and addresses...

Dr.-Ing. Martin Killmann, an alumnus of the LFT, received the doctoral prize for his dissertation entitled "Prestressing and Fatigue of Cold Forging Tools for Non-Circular Component Geometries" at the Faculty of Engineering's Day event. His successful introduction to this fascinating topic within the framework of...

We are delighted that Henrik Zieroth has successfully completed his Six Sigma Green Belt certification. Congratulations on this achievement! The Six Sigma Green Belt not only teaches methods for process optimization but also offers significant added value, particularly for research: Statistical...

The demand for lightweight yet high-performance gears is growing, not least due to the need for sustainable production. Sheet-bulk metal forming (SBMF) offers a promising approach, providing the potential to manufacture resource-efficient lightweight components with intricate structures.

The Bilstein Group hosted its first Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Day in Hagen on November 13th. The renowned cold-rolled strip manufacturer primarily targeted the construction industry with its innovative STABILS steel fiber, but steel fibers and their potential as concrete reinforcement also interested us as a teaching Institute...

At the IDDRG 2025 conference in Lisbon, the paper “Improving the local formability of an AA7075 aluminum alloy by laser-induced modification of the alloying concept” was recognized as one of the ten best conference papers. The expanded version has now been published in the renowned journal Adv...

The LFT was represented by four people (Prof. M. Merklein, A. Harms, J. Neumann, and J. Sarris) at the AJP in Coimbra, Portugal. This conference, entitled "Advanced Joining Processes," covered many topics that are the subject of current research at the institute. On the one hand, results from...

Der Beitrag mit dem Titel "Influence of localized alloy composition tailoring by laser-induced element evaporation on the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy AA7075" wurde im Journal of Materials Processing Technology (JMPT) veröffentlicht. Der ganze Beitrag kann unter https://doi.org/10.1016/j...