Professorship for Manufacturing – Innovative Manufacturing
Organisational unit: Professoship
Main research areas
The professorship for manufacturing technology – which takes the form of a shared professorship with the Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH – covers a wide spectrum of manufacturing processes, both in regard to research and in regard to teaching. In doing so, research work focuses primarily on forming technology and the integration of additional manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing. In terms of research and teaching, the key specialisations of this group are light construction and the conservation of resources, the adaptation of process- and material-induced product properties, components and processes for electric mobility, Industry 4.0, and networked and digitalised processes. These fields are researched from a manufacturing technology point of view and furthered through cooperations with other disciplines.
What’s more, one of the key activities carried out by this professorship is the transfer of this knowledge into regional, national and international industry. In addition, the professorship represents Leuphana University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH national and international committees for manufacturing technology, such as the AGU (German Metal Forming Association) or CIRP (the International Academy for Production Engineering).
TrICo Subproject: Community Sustainable Production
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Klusemann, B. (Project manager, academic), Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Schmidt, M. (Project manager, academic), Schulz, J. (Project staff), Stöver, E. (Partner), Dieringa, H. (Partner), Zeise, P. (Project staff), Hendriok, L. (Project staff) & Krämer, R. (Project staff)
01.08.23 → 31.12.27
Project: Transfer (Scientific Services)
Targeted adjustment of graded properties using in-situ hybridization for the production of property-optimized, thermoplastic-based fiber-metal laminates
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Chen, H. (Project staff) & Kruse, M. (Project staff)
01.08.20 → 30.06.22
Project: Research
Reduction of anisotropic material properties during extrusion through additively manufactured extrusion dies
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Bohlen, J. (Project manager, academic), Lehmann, J. (Project staff) & Esterl, F. (Project staff)
01.02.21 → 31.03.26
Project: Research
OptimUm: Optimization of forming parameters using AI and FEM
Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Ben Khalifa, N. (Partner), Zein El Abdine, M. (Project staff) & Thiery, S. (Project staff)
01.04.20 → 31.03.23
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
OptUm-MagNa: Optimierte Umformbarkeit von Magnesium-Nanokompositen – Teilvorhaben Umformtheorie (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz)
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Lehmann, J. (Project staff) & Kruse, M. (Project staff)
01.02.22 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Manufacturing of combined convex-concave form elements by using active-medium support in incremental sheet forming
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Thiery, S. (Project staff) & Zein El Abdine, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.23 → 30.09.24
Project: Research
Manufacturing of combined convex-concave form elements by using active-medium support in incremental sheet forming
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic) & Thiery, S. (Project staff)
01.06.18 → 30.09.21
Project: Research
In situ Hybridization during deep drawing: Thermoplastic Fiber-Metal-Laminate (FML) parts based on reactively processed polyamide 6
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Henning, F. (Project manager, academic) & Weidenmann, K. A. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.18 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Functionally Graded Materials: Continuous Casting and Forming of Electric Copper Conductors
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic), Volk, W. (Project manager, academic), Lehmann, J. (Project staff) & Thiery, S. (Project staff)
01.06.23 → 31.05.25
Project: Research
FerNaPro: Fertigungstechnik für innovative und nachhaltige Produkte
Ben Khalifa, N. (Project manager, academic) & Lehmann, J. (Project staff)
15.07.21 → 30.09.23
Project: Research