Department Laser Technology
Joining and separating processes enable the cost-effective manufacture of complex products and implement innovations for lightweight construction, the production of mixed joints and functional integration. The Department Laser Technology is responsible for the investigation and further research of a representative range of joining and separation processes. The theoretical and experimental design of the processes, the integration of system technology as well as the implementation and realization of plant concepts form the center of these investigations. The work is accompanied by numerical simulation of the processes. In addition, modern concepts for process monitoring and data evaluation are developed and used to support process optimization.
Head of Department: Christian Stadter
The research competences
- Laser manufacturing technology
The laser production technology at iwb deals with basic research on laser beam welding and uses modern system technology for process monitoring. With the help of new approaches to data processing, the sensor signals of process monitoring are used to systematically achieve process improvements.
Research Field Leader: Maximilian Schmöller
Die intelligente Fügesystemtechnik stellt eine Schnittstelle zwischen den einzelnen Forschungsschwerpunkten in der Themengruppe Füge- und Trenntechnik dar. Hier werden Methoden zur Datenerfassung und -auswertung für den produktionstechnischen Einsatz adaptiert und weiterentwickelt. Dabei werden moderne Methoden der Datenverarbeitung von Statistik bis hin zu maschinellem Lernen eingesetzt, um praxisnahe Handlungsempfehlungen für die industrielle Umsetzung zu geben.
Research Field Leader: Michael Kick
Find out more about the current projects here.
Equipment in the Department Laser Technologies
Laser system technology:
- High-power diode laser (Laserline, Pmax = 6 kW)
- Multi-mode fiber laser (IPG, Pmax = 8 kW)
- Single-mode fiber laser (IPG, Pmax = 3 kW)
- Multi-mode disk laser (Trumpf, Pmax = 4 kW)
- Pulsed fiber laser (IPG, 100 W, 30 ns, 0.2 mJ)
- Pulsed fiber laser (Rofin, 20 W, 100 ns, 1 mJ)
- State-of-the-art fixed optics incl. options for tactile seam tracking and beam shaping, e.g.
HighYAG Bimo
Scansonic ALO3
Precitec YRC, etc.
- Various scanner optics for remote processing, e.g.
ARGES Elephant 36SiC
ScanLabIntelliWeld30
Trumpf PFO33
- 6-axis articulated arm robot with various external kinematics
- Wire feeding system
- Flow boxes for CFRP processing
Modeling and simulation of joining and cutting processes
- Adina
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- MSC Marc
- Sysweld
- Hypermesh
- Matlab
