Cooperations
Cooperation with other Research Groups
RWTH Aachen, Politecnico di Milano, Keio University, Tokyo

We continued our intensive cooperation with the Research Institute for Industrial Management (Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung; FIR) and the Laboratory for Machine Tools (WZL) at RWTH Aachen (Proff. G. Schuh, V. Stich), the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at PoliMi (Proff. M. Taisch, M. Garetti), and the Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio (Prof. M. Nakano).
HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

The cooperation with the Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) and the Zhejiang Advanced Manufacturing Institute (ZAMI) with Prof. Mitchell Tseng continued.
Tongji University, Shanghai

School of Economics & Management, Chinese Academy of Science & Technology Management, Shanghai. We cooperate with Proff. Yanxin You, Yanmei Zhu.
MIT

We continued cooperation with Prof. Y. Sheffi, Prof. O. de Weck, Dr. M. Sing and Dr. J. Oehmen on various themes.
Hosei Univerity, Tokyo

We cooperate with Proff. F. Kimura and Y. Fukuda) on IMS2020 related themes. With Prof. H. and W. ElMaraghy on CIRP-related themes.
Munich University of Technology

We cooperate with the IWB (Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management, Proff. G. Reinhart, M. Zäh) on domains of the CARV conference.
Within larger research projects, e.g. IMS2020 or GaLA, Prof. P. Schönsleben and his assistants cooperate with chairs of various universities, e.g. EPFL Lausanne (Proff. P. Xirouchakis, D. Kiritsis), NTNU Norway (Prof. A. Rolstadås), Clemson University (Prof. T. Kurfess), KAIST Korea (Prof. N. Suh), Aalto University Finland (Prof. R. Smeeds), Aalborg University, Denmark (Proff. Riis, Johanssen).