It is one of the central tasks of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT to transfer the findings of our cutting-edge research projects directly into an industrial environment. This is why we focus our research effort on production technologies with large potentials for industrial applications, and this is why we provide a wide range of technological products and services in process technology, production machines, metrology and quality management as well as technology management.

Our research projects are funded by the BMBF, the AiF, the Land North Rhine-Westphalia, programmes of the German Research Council (DFG), the publicly funded "Sonderforschungsbereiche" and the European Commission. Our clients and cooperation partners are coming from all parts of the manufacturing industry, particularly from the automotive industry and its suppliers, tool and die making, fine mechanics, the optical industry, aviation and space technology.