The IPEK Lab - Design for Smart Factory focuses on Sheet Metal research, education, and innovation on developing engineering design-centered digital support for smart factories.

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The problem

Even experienced design engineers do not fully exploit the potential of smart factories! 
The opportunities of manufacturing technologies can only be found in product design.
Designing well is only possible if you understand the details!
We investigate the creative minds of the industry. Access to designer engineers and their design problems is difficult. In order to exploit potential, Design for Smart Factories must be brought into the laboratory.

Our mission

Working together with sheet metal experts from ScaleNC, Optimate and TRUMPF to enable design engineers to fully exploit the high potential of the sheet metal smart factories. 

Current research topics

- Digital design analysis to automatically evaluate assemblies
- Automated design through AI 
- Digital assistance to support design engineers
- Revolutionizing teaching and design by providing design knowledge in line with demand
- iAssist: https://vm-designcampus.ipek.kit.edu:5000/

Teaching

Research Publications

Links

Trumpf Sheet metal part design

Optimate: Sheet metal part optimization in seconds

ScaleNC: Programming the Smart Factory

Design for Smart Factory