FormPlanet partners have met on September 25-26 in Chemnitz for their 1st General Meeting.
At the meeting, hosted by Fraunhofer IWU, partners reviewed the advances in each of the work packages and planned and prepared upcoming milestones and tasks for building a sheetmetal forming testing hub for materials characterization.
During the visit, partners visited the Institute facilities and the Industrial Museum of Chemnitz.
Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Industry (IWU) is a leading institute within Fraunhofer applied research organisation working on the development of efficient value chain processes in the machine tool, vehicle and component production sector. The institute is in charge of developing a testing machine to perform reliable FLC-characterization and optimizing an advanced 3MA system for non-destructive quality inspection of components.