Process & Production Engineering

Process and production engineering covers thermal, mechanical and chemical manufacturing methods such as forming, casting, machining, coating and additive manufacturing. The goal is controlled generation of desired microstructures and properties with economic efficiency. Process modeling, monitoring, quality control and digitization (Industry 4.0) optimize productivity and reproducibility.

Committees

  • Working Group

    Additive Fertigung mit Polymeren

    Committee members: 132
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. Andreas Blaeser
    Technical University of Darmstadt
    Vice Chair
    Dipl.-Ing. Hansgeorg Haupt
    Technical University of Darmstadt
  • Expert Committee

    Additive manufacturing

    Committee members: 293
    Chair
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vasily Ploshikhin
    University of Bremen
    Vice Chair
    Dr. Kai Schimanski
    Airbus Operations GmbH
  • Expert Committee

    Continuous Casting

    Committee members: 161
    Chair
    Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Rüdiger Böhmer
    Universität Hildesheim
  • Working Group

    Coordination

    Committee members: 19
    Chair
    Dr. Johannes Strümpfel
    VON ARDENNE GmbH
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. André Anders
    Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM)
  • Expert Committee

    Drawing

    Committee members: 81
    Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Farzad Foadian
    Benteler Steel/Tube GmbH
  • Working Group

    Expert Group Metal Injection Moulding (MIM)

    Committee members: 29
  • Working Group

    Expert Group on Metal powder production

    Committee members: 38
    Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Cornelius
    INTECO melting and casting technologies GmbH
  • Working Group

    Expert Group on Sintered Steel

    Committee members: 16
    Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Markus Schneider
    GKN Powder Metallurgy GmbH
  • Working Group

    Expert Group on Sintering

    Committee members: 3
    Chair
    Dr. Christian Gierl-Mayer
    TU Wien
  • Expert Committee

    Extrusion

    Committee members: 162
    Chair
    Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. Sören Müller
    TU Berlin
  • Working Group

    Field Assisted Sintering Technology

    Committee members: 82
    Chair
    Apl.-Prof. Dr. Martin Bram
    Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
  • Expert Committee

    Functionalisation of surfaces by micro- and nano patterning techniques

    Committee members: 63
    Chair
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrés Fabián Lasagni
    TU Dresden
    Vice Chair
    Prof. Dr. Carsten Gachot
    TU Wien
  • Working Group

    Furnace-independent Mold - Aluminium

    Committee members: 54
    Chair
    Dr. Bernd Prillhofer
    AMAG Gruppe
    Vice Chair
    Dr. Johannes Morscheiser
    Novelis Deutschland GmbH
  • Working Group

    Heavy metal extrusion products

    Committee members: 34
    Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Olaf Schwedler
    KME Mansfeld GmbH
    Vice Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Axel Jörg
    HME Brass Germany GmbH
  • Working Group

    Industrial Advisory Board

    Committee members: 25
    Chair
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vasily Ploshikhin
    University of Bremen
  • Working Group

    Light metal

    Committee members: 96
    Chair
    Dr. Thomas Herding
    Hydro Extrusion
  • Joint Committee

    Materials Technology Steel

    Committee members: 149
    Chair
    Dr. Frank Hippenstiel
    BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH
    Chair
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrich Krupp
    RWTH Aachen University
  • Working Group

    Measurement and Control of Strip Shape

    Committee members: 30
    Chair
    Dr. Kai Friedrich Karhausen
    Speira GmbH
  • Expert Committee

    Mechanical surface treatments

    Committee members: 116
    Chair
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Hoffmeister
    University of Applied Sciences
  • Joint Committee

    PLASMA Germany

    Committee members: 35
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. André Anders
    Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM)
  • Working Group

    Plasma modification of polymers

    Committee members: 3
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. Jörg Friedrich
    Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
  • Expert Committee

    Polymermaterials

    Committee members: 69
    Chair
    Dipl.-Ing. Hansgeorg Haupt
    Technical University of Darmstadt
  • Joint Committee

    Powder Metallurgy

    Committee members: 187
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. Christoph Broeckmann
    RWTH Aachen University
    Vice Chair
    Dr. Jürgen Schmidt
    Boehlerit GmbH & Co.KG
  • Working Group

    Roll-Cladding

    Committee members: 27
    Chair
    Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Reichelt
    HFP Bandstahl GmbH
  • Expert Committee

    Rolling

    Committee members: 196
    Chair
    Dr. Jan Lindemann
    Messingwerk Plettenberg Herfeld GmbH & Co. KG
  • Working Group

    Standardization

    Committee members: 3
    Chair
    Prof. Dr. Georg Reiners
    Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
  • Working Group

    Thermal process technology

    Committee members: 12
  • Working Group

    Tubes and Sections

    Committee members: 31
    Chair
    Dr.-Ing. Farzad Foadian
    Benteler Steel/Tube GmbH
  • Working Group

    Wire and rods

    Committee members: 22
    Chair
    Franz-Josef Reitz

Events

2026
  1. | Training Course

    RUB Hochschulpraktikum: Wasserstoff in Metallen

    Bochum

  2. | Committee Meeting

    Fachausschuss Ziehen - Jahressitzung 2026

    tba

  3. | Training Course

    Ziehen von Drähten, Rohren und Profilen

    Clausthal-Zellerfeld

  4. | Congress & Exhibition

    Magnet Days 2025

    Aalen

  5. | Training Course

    Magnetic materials for renewable energy and mobility

    Aalen

  6. | Congress & Exhibition

    Bioinspired Materials 2026

    Siegburg/Bonn & Online

  7. | Committee Meeting

    Expertenkreis Permanentmagnete

    Aalen

  8. | Training Course

    Einführung in die Metallkunde für Ingenieur*innen und Techniker*innen

    Darmstadt

  9. | Congress & Exhibition

    Verbund 2026

    Chemnitz & Online

  10. | Training Course

    Entstehung, Ermittlung und Bewertung von Eigenspannungen

    Karlsruhe

  11. | Congress & Exhibition

    Additive 2026

    Kassel & Online

  12. | Committee Meeting

    Arbeitskreis Walzplattieren im FA Walzen

    Freiberg

  13. | Training Course

    Werkstoffdesign für die additive Fertigung

    Paderborn

  14. | Committee Meeting

    Expertenkreis Sinterstähle im Gemeinschaftsausschuss Pulvermetallurgie

    Düsseldorf

  15. | Training Course

    Direktes und indirektes Strangpressen

    Berlin

  16. | Congress & Exhibition

    RSMSE 2026

    Kassel & Online

  17. | Committee Meeting

    Fachausschuss Additive Fertigung

    Online

  18. | Congress & Exhibition

    ICFSMA 2026

    Kassel & Online

  19. | Training Course

    Einführung in die Metallkunde für Ingenieur*innen und Techniker*innen

    Darmstadt

  20. | Training Course

    Löten - Grundlagen und Anwendungen

    Aachen

  21. | Training Course

    Werkstoffspezifische Bauteilreparatur zur nachhaltigen Lebensdauerverlängerung

    Hamburg

  22. | Training Course

    Aluminium

    Bonn