INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS:
Production technology in Dortmund
- High-tech location with tradition
- Home to international market-leaders and renowned specialist providers
- 26,700 employees in more than 600 innovative companies
- sector focuses on fields of metal, mechanical and electronic engineering
- location for production-related centers of excellence
- home to technically-oriented universities
- headquarters of internationally renowned research institutes
- functioning networks linking science and businesses
Innovative products and system solutions are the trademarks of Dortmund’s mechanical and plant engineering, a key, interdisciplinary sector, whose products are at home in all industrial fields – whether they are the smallest precision components, machine tools weighing tons or complete production plants. Never mind whether they are world market leaders or medium-sized specialists – Dortmund companies are full-line providers of hightech products guaranteeing cutting edge technology from Dortmund. Another mainstay of Dortmund’s production economy is electro-technology. The main focuses of this sector are on the fields of drives-technology, factory automation and robotics.
Dortmund shows us how tradition and the future can be successfully linked with high quality and innovative products. The basis for this success is also the innovations from the interdisciplinary fields. Technology-oriented universities, the most modern technology centers and internationally renowned research institutes ensure innovative impulses and fast knowledge transfer to businesses.
All of these are location factors giving production companies that decisive competitive advantage. 30 research institutes are based in Dortmund alone – including European-wide leading organizations such as the Institute of Forming Technology and Light Construction, the Testlab for Electromagnetic Compatibility or the LIZA Lightweight Automobile Construction and Innovation Center. Renowned institutions such as the Dortmund Surfaces Center, the Institute for Robotics Research or the Fraunhofer Institutes for Material Flow and Logistics, for Laser and Surface Technology and for Surface Engineering and Thin Films round off the broad spectrum of research and development in Dortmund.
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