• Corporate strategies (business excellence, environmental protection, knowledge as a resource of the future)
  • Product development (innovation with system, virtual engineering)
  • Production (dynamic lightweight construction, high-performance processes, hybrid processes, toolmaking with a future)
  • Systems for production (trends machine tool construction, internet technology for production, microtechnology, production processes – production measurement technology)
  • Production and process innovations
  • Sustainability
  • Future-oriented research and innovation policy