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Five companies and two research institutes were involved in one of the most exciting technical issues in production. Coordinated by Daimler AG and within the framework of the BMBF funding initiative “Photonic Process Chains”, these project partners examined the “Integration of Additive Manufacturing Processes in Automobile Series Production – AutoAdd”. They focused on the metallic, additive manufacturing process developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, Germany: Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), also known as Selective Laser Melting (SLM).

Beginning in 2004, the Dresden Congress Award has honored committed scientists, entrepreneurs, and congress organizers who have brought congresses and conferences to Dresden, the Saxony state capital, and successfully organized them. The award is a symbol of intellectual exchange, of communication in the sciences and research, and of striving for social and technical progress. This year, the scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP are honored to be a finalist in the category "Focus Dresden” for hosting the SID-ME "Wearable and Projection Displays" international conference in Dresden in 2017.

Fraunhofer and Technische Universität Braunschweig intensify their cooperation: Professor Dr. Christoph Herrmann, dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, accepts the offer of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Since 1st November 2018 he has been director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST alongside with Professor Dr. Günter Bräuer . At the same time Prof. Herrmann will remain head of the TU Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology IWF. Thus, the IST is now linked twice with the university, as the Fraunhofer Institute is already connected to the Institute of Surface Technology IOT at the TU Braunschweig via Professor Bräuer.

The “Conference on Laser Polishing – LaP” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is an international meeting point for all experts using or researching laser polishing. For the third time, the conference took place in Aachen and offered a comprehensive overview of research results and trends relating to the industrial use of laser polishing for metals, glass and plastics. On September 12 and 13, some 80 participants from a total of 15 different countries exchanged knowledge as well as ideas and gained insights into the laboratories at Fraunhofer ILT.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has acquired extensive know-how in the field of electron-beam technology over many years. As a result, processes and equipment have been designed and implemented for a wide variety of applications, such as for seed dressing, and for cross-linking and curing of paints. Now a new design for the treatment of liquids is being presented: the ELLI 300 system (ELectron treatment of LIquids).

Multispectral sensors are increasingly utilized in Smart Farming or production monitoring for the food industry. The special requirements of these fields in-clude simultaneous imaging of spectral and spatial information, but also the need for miniaturization of these systems, especially in drone-based use. The Fraunhofer IOF presents such an imaging system at the joint Fraunhofer stand in hall 1, booth 1G42.

The researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP are pleased to announce that they have been voted "Innovator of the Year" for the second time in a row. The readers of the journal DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK had previously honored the Institute's developments last year as winners in the fields of both OLED microdisplays and coating technologies for thin flexible glass. This year, scientists working on a Fraunhofer joint project on biodegradable electronics are pleased to have received the award again.

The future of 3D printing will be the focus at formnext 2018 in Frankfurt am Main. For this, the Fraunhofer Focus Project futureAM offers particularly exciting insights, a project in which six Fraunhofer institutes are involved. The partners are doing both, comprehensively looking at digital and physical added value right from the order to the finished component; and at the leap into a new technology generation of additive manufacturing.

Having received a Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize in 2017, a research team from Aachen has now also won the prestigious Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis. Their award-winning process “Extreme High-Speed Laser Material Deposition” is known by its German abbreviation, EHLA. The technology allows protective metal coatings to be applied at extremely high speeds in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner. EHLA is also a model of successful cooperation based on partnership and of how to solve practical, application-oriented problems. In addition, it exemplifies how the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft works.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has been successfully developing OLED microdisplays based on OLED-on-silicon technology for years. Several generations of different designs have already been created. At the same time, the necessary electronics and system environment for future augmented reality (AR) applications are being developed at full speed. The developers will be debuting an innovative and powerful set of tools for independent development of wearables using OLED microdisplays at the Fraunhofer Joint Booth (no. 426, Hall C5) during electronica 2018, November 13-16, 2018 in Munich, Germany.