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We Design Intelligent Processes. Welcome!

A technology and research partner, we assist companies intent on making Industry 4.0 reality and playing a role the epochal transition to digitalization and automation. We have made it our mission to contribute with our research to sustainable development consonant with environmentally intact, commercially successful and socially equitable development. 

Julia Arlinghaus, Director of Fraunhofer IFF Magdeburg

 

Intelligent Disassembly of Electronics for Remanufacturing and Recycling

In the iDeaR project, we are developing solutions for the efficient dismantling of electronic equipment and for the remanufacturing and recycling of materials. We want to ensure that raw materials are not wasted and that valuable resources are kept in circulation for longer.

Statement against extremism

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is firmly committed to global openness, diversity, democracy and the rule of law and unequivocally distances itself from the dehumanizing plans of all extremist parties, organizations and groups. 

 

Upcoming Events

Meet the Fraunhofer IFF team at these events:

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4.2.2025

Automated Electronics Disassembly: First Milestones in the Research Project

Millions of tons of electronic waste are produced worldwide every year. Only a fraction of this is recycled or refurbished. A research project, iDEAR, with the objective of automating electronic waste disassembly started at Fraunhofer IFF in February 2023. This is intended to make it easier to recycle resources and to close material cycles. Automation makes disassembly processes more scalable in times of skilled labor shortages. We now have the first promising results.
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3.2.2025

For a Greener Future: International Research Project Started

The energy transition necessitates flexible adjustment of energy generation and consumption to maximize the integration of renewable energies. Residential, commercial and industrial buildings account for a significant 35 percent of end-use energy consumption. This makes the flexible use of volatile energies, such as wind and solar energy, in this sector instrumental to the energy transition. The European research project FlexBIT is developing digital solutions to harness the hidden flexibility capabilities in energy systems and to increase energy efficiency in various sectors sustainably.
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21.11.2024

Algorithms Will Optimize Battery Energy Storage System Operation

Intelligent Algorithms and Power Electronics for Grid-Quality and Energy-Efficient Battery Energy Storage System Operation ALene is a research project in which algorithms and power electronic systems that optimize battery energy storage systems will be developed and tested and their efficiency and functionality will be improved, consequently enabling better integration in the grid control system.
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29.10.2024

Robot Programming: Software Will Assist with Risk Assessment

In a joint research project with the company voraus robotik GmbH, Fraunhofer IFF research scientists are developing a software that will assist with the risk assessment of robot applications. This software will be integrated into the robot programming, minimizing time-consuming risk assessments. The Integration of Risk Assessment into Robot Programming IRPro research project, which was conceived as part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s DATIpilot funding guidelines, started on September 1, 2024 and will run for eighteen months.
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Activities and Applied Research for Production of Tomorrow

We are focused on all the relevant, pressing and complex challenges of factory operation and automation. We help manufacturing companies transition to intelligent manufacturing. We are the technology partner for designing, developing, equipping and operating work, manufacturing and logistics systems and their supply infrastructures. Our departments cover the entire life cycle of products and industrial production systems. We design work systems in which humans and machines collaborate. We combine these work systems into efficient production and logistics systems and connect them with each other and their environment through intelligent infrastructures.

Cutting-Edge Technology for the Mittelstand

Our teams of research scientists have been researching cutting-edge issues, such as the energy transition, climate change, augmented and virtual reality, safe robot use, digital twins and artificial intelligence, for many years long before they became mainstream. Our clients now come to us to prepare themselves for future challenges and to develop efficient, humane and sustainable solutions together with us. We use custom and scalable technologies to bring every business, whether they be major corporations or Mittelstand companies, on board wherever they are in their transition to Industry 4.0. We jointly analyze existing structures, find the right technology, develop the right software and combine everything into integrated, intelligent solutions, thus making cutting-edge technology available to Mittelstand businesses too.

In the process, we look at technologies and processes through our clients’ eyes and envision developments ten or more years in advance. Our broad expertise in hardware is the foundation of our outstanding software and digitalization solutions. We analyze the entire product life cycle from ideation to development and maintenance processes through the end of a product's life and its recycling. Our technological fields complement each other optimally and are modified dynamically in response to market demands.

We create value together with and in businesses and for their locations rapidly, flexibly and always with an eye on the return on investment. Technology may be a means to an end for our clients. It is our passion.

Fraunhofer IFF

at Sandtorstrasse

Sandtorstrasse 22
39106 Magdeburg, Germany

Phone +49 391 4090-0
Fax +49 391 4090-596
ideen(at)iff.fraunhofer.de

Elbfabrik of the Fraunhofer IFF

at Port of Science

Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Strasse 1
39106 Magdeburg, Germany

Contact and Inquiries

Would you like to learn more about how we are designing the world of work of tomorrow? We develop custom solutions – from feasibility analyses to innovative prototypes through ready-to-use industrial systems and fitting business models – for your needs.

Would you like us to assess your situation and needs? Contact us.