Institute of Design and Production in Precision Engineering

Institut für Konstruktion und Fertigung in der Feinwerktechnik
Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70550 Stuttgart
Telephone: +49-(0)711-685-66402, -66411
Telefax: +49-(0)711-685-56402
 

Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schinköthe
Contact Person Dipl-Ing. Eberhard Burkard, Telephone: +49-(0)711-685-66403
Principal Areas of Work Electromechanical direct drive linear motors
  • Computer aided design of high energy magnetic circuits for permanent magnetically energized linear motor systems.
  • Simulation and optimization of the magnetic circuits with FE-methods.
  • Computer aided dimensioning, optimization and design of electromagnetical direct drive linear systems in precision engineering.
  • Development and design of miniature direct drive systems with integrated measuring systems using the sensoric properties of the system.
Aerostatic bearings
  • Investigation of the suitability of porous materials for aerostatic bearings.
  • Determination of matching parameters and dimensioning of the bearings.
  • Combination of aerostatic bearings with direct drive linear motors.
Ultrasonic drives
  • Investigation and development of ultrasonic linear drives based on travelling waves.
  • Simulation and optimization of the travelling wave using FE-methods.
Injection molding
  • Production of precision parts and structures.
  • Dynamic tempering of molds with induction heating.
  • Production of polymer bonded magnets.
  • Determination of forces appearing when opening the mold.
  • Optimization of parts to save material by applying FE-methods.
System reliability
  • Tansfer and verification of new and already known reliability methods on precision drives.
  • Experiments including endurance tests of precision drives.
  • Development of new approaches to determine the system reliability in early design phases.
  • Precalculating of the system reliability of mixed systems in early design phases.
Qualification Long experience in precision engineering and particularly in the above-mentioned fields of work. Project work in cooperation with different industrial companies and research centers.
Facilities
  • Metrology lab: Laser interferometer system, measurement data registration system, microscopes, coordinate tables, manually operated micromanipulator, motion pick-up systems, etc.
  • Workshop including a CNC-milling machine.
  • Electronic lab including an etching system.
  • Digital scanning electron microscope (Zeiss DSM 960), surface quality measuring device (Hommel T8000), 3D coordinate measuring machine (Zeiss prismo).
  • 2 injection molding machines
  • Several Personal Computers and workstations.
  • 2D and 3D CAD-Software, electronic layout software, FEM software, simulation tool for injection molding, software tools for analysing flow and electromagnetic problems.
  • Access to the university's high performance computing center to decrease solving time of FE-simulations.