Erlangen (LFT)

The Chair of Manufacturing Technology (head: Prof. Manfred Geiger; about 80 employees) is one of the six departments of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. The chair's key activities comprise metal forming, laser technology and development of computational tools in the area of these technologies. The research topics in the field of micro manufacturing cover micro metal forming processes like bulk metal forming, blanking or deep drawing, micro laser manufacturing processes applied to welding, soldering or adjustment of micro components as well as metrology of micro structures.In order to spread the results of research and to qualify engineers students of the university are trained by lectures, practical training and writing of diploma and doctoral theses.

The chair is equipped with modern devices for investigations in the field of micro production like SEM, X-ray diffractometer, confocal microscope, mechanical testing machines, tool shop and metallographic laboratory.
The equipment availbale to the 4M Network includes:
Universal testing machine (SchenkTrebel RM 400), 400kN
Universal testing machine (walter + bai FS-300), 300kN
Universal testing machine (UTS 5K), 5kN
servo-hydraulic universal testing machine (Gleeble 1500)
8-axis x-ray stress analyzer XRD 3003
optical 3D deformation measurement systems (ARAMIS, ARGUS, GOM)
micro hardness measurement system (Fischerscope 100np)
topography measurement system (Perthometer, Mahr)
optical topography measurement system (µSurf, Nanofocus)
scanning electron microscope
hydraulic press Hydrap HPDZb 630

For more information visit:

www.lft.uni-erlangen.de