In this area future topics of integrated research and teaching are oriented towards the whole life cycle of products and production plants: ranging from product development to production technology through to production plants. In all these phases efficient production, logistics and business processes are necessary. And their further development and exploration follows three overall concepts:
The high degree of interdisciplinarity is achieved by closely linking work groups of mechanical engineering, mathematics, statistics and computer science, biochemical and chemical engineering, electrical engineering and information technology as well as economics and social sciences.