Future Automotive Production Conference 2022

The conference focused on hybrid lightweight design, which is characterized by the combination of different materials with the aim of improving properties and reducing weight. In particular, production technologies for hybrid lightweight design were discussed, new evaluation methods for the ecological assessment of hybrid components were presented and future-oriented approaches motivated by nature for the development of components, assemblies and systems were introduced.

Lightweight design is a key technology for the development of sustainable and resource-efficient mobility concepts. Vehicle manufacturers operate in an area of conflict between customer requirements, competition and legislation. Material hybrid structures, which combine the advantages of different materials, have a high potential for reducing weight, while simultaneously expanding component functionality. The future, efficient use of function-integrated hybrid structures in vehicle design requires innovations and constant developments in vehicle and production technology. There is a great demand, especially with regard to new methods and technologies, for "affordable" lightweight construction in large-scale production, taking into account the increasing requirements with regard to variant diversity, safety and quality.

A quantitative method for the investigation of digitized surfaces after fine milling machining.- Fatigue life of refurbished fiber reinforced thermoplastics.- Manufacturing of lightweight parts by sandwich foam injection moulding using recycled thermoplastics.- Innovative design concept for the safety of battery housing.- Thermocouple fabrication by cold plasma spray.- A variability model for individual life cycle paths in life cycle engineering.- Increase the ressource efficiency by evaluation of the effects of deep rolling within the design and manufacturing phase.- Approaching a smart, and sustainable interior for future mobility solutions.- Fast curing biobased epoxy hardener for rtm applications.- Investigation on the bond performance in hybrid wood-plastic components.- Atmospheric pressure plasma sources for additive manufacturing.- Design freedoms of lattice structures for interlock bonding.- Assisted facility layout planning for sustainable automotive assembly.- Assembly and through life services in the context of urban cloud manufacturing.- AI-based performance prediction and its application on the design and simulation of cooling plates for battery electric vehicles.- Innovative module design with active and passive cooling of traction batteries.- Contribution to the optimization of metal-composite lightweight structures in context of digital linked development processes.- Cluster of excellence living, adaptive and energy-autonomous materials systems (livmats).- Potentials and design of a virtual production system for intelligent battery cell manufacturing.