Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Uhrzeit Eurogress
17.30 Get-together
Opening industry trade show
Early registration

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Wednesday, 28 February 2024

8.15 Registration opening

Time Europasaal Speaker
9.00 Welcome and opening of the Colloquium Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann, IKV
Plenary lecture: Future Germany 2050 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz Eckstein, President VDI, Head of Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika)
Plenary lecture: Sustainability and digitalisation antagonising deindustrialisation Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann, Head of IKV
10.50 Presentation of the Georg Menges Prize 2024
11.20 Break and visit of the industry trade show

Time Europasaal Brüsselsaal K1 Aachen
11.50 Session 1: Injection moulding process technology for lightweight products Session 2: AI-based methods to boost PCR usage in plastics packagings Session 3: Advances in ultrasonic and laser welding technology
Challenges and potentials in automotive lighting for using MuCell® technology | Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Kleineheismann, Forvia Hella Closing loops - recycling as an essential step for sustainable packaging solutions | Dr.-Ing. Peter Ryzko, SÜDPACK Verpackungen Vibration and heating simulation of work-pieces in ultrasonic plastic welding | Thomas Herrmann, Herrmann Ultraschall
Resource efficient processing of long fibre-reinforced thermoplastics in thermoplastic foam injection moulding | Jan Wolters, IKV Investigations on suitable design of experiments for predicting compound properties | Lukas Seifert, IKV Thermal simulation for laser transmission welding process as a function of high heating rates | Patricia Fatherazi, IKV
Locally reinforced plastic components through back-moulding of unidirectional tapes | Pia Wagner, IKV Inline monitoring of process and quality values during injection moulding of thin-walled packaging | Malte Seefeldt, IKV Investigation on the Influence of the specimen geometry on the determination of temperature-dependent storage and loss modulus in a reverse engineering process at a typical ultrasonic welding frequency of 20 kHz | Hakan Çelik, IKV
12.50 Lunch break and visit of the industry trade show
13:50 How competition is shaping future engineers | Team Ecurie Aix Europasaal

Time Europasaal Brüsselsaal K1 Aachen
14:05 Session 4: New control strategies for injection moulding Session 5: Multiscale simulation of multiphase materials Session 6: Material characterisation and process monitoring for polyurethanes
Process engineering approaches for recyclate processing | Dr.-Ing. Thomas Walther, ARBURG A technical overview of Altair Multiscale Designer for short fibre reinforced materials | Frank Ehrhart, Altair Engineering Developments in polyurethane processing - Opportunities and challenges | Dr.-Ing. Hubert Ehbing, Covestro
Automated controller set-up for model predictive cavity pressure control | Katharina Hornberg, IKV Reverse engineering calibration method of constituents properties for multi-scale simulations of injection moulded thermoplastic vulcanisate parts | Noah Mentges, IKV Property prediction of polyurethane foams considering the real foam morphology | Eduard Kremer, IKV
pvT-optimised cavity pressure control utilising the hot runner valve pin | Matthias Schöll, IKV Development of a multi-scale model for accurate simulation of the thermoplastic foam injection moulding process | Daniel Fritsche, IKV Modelling the reaction process of a fast-curing polyurethane system using isoconversional methods and accurate cure data | Felix Flammer, IKV
15:05 Break and visit of the industry trade show
15.35 IKV 360° – Research live in the IKV pilot plants
19.00 "Beer Colloquium" - evening event

Thursday, 29 February 2024

8.30 Registration opening

Time Europasaal Speaker
9.00 Plenary lecture: Plastics based on renewable resources – a universal problem solver? Dr.-Ing. Martin Bussmann, Neste SE
9.50 Presentation of the Reifenhäuser Sponsorship Award 2024
10.00 Break and visit of the industry trade show

Time Europasaal Brüsselsaal K1 Aachen
10.30 Session 7: Product specific process technology for injection moulding Session 8: Plasma-based barrier coatings for sustainable packaging Session 9: Structural health monitoring of hydrogen pressure tanks
Process technology as driver of innovation in injection moulding for energy transition | Dr.-Ing. Johannes Kilian, ENGEL Low temperature PECVD and PEALD: Analysis to high throughput industrial applications (Barriers on cup geometries) | Dr. phil. Jürgen Geng, PLASMA ELECTRONIC Influence of material properties on the simulation of gas and liner-wall temperature during fuelling processes of Type IV pressure vessels | Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schneider NPROXX B.V.
Manufacturing hybrid pharmaceutical crimp caps using a combined deep-drawing/back-injection moulding process with micro form fitting | Moritz Mascher, IKV In-Plasma Air2Air – Process development for sustainable barrier coatings on flexible plastic packaging | Philipp Alizadeh, IKV Design principles for Type IV pressure vessels equipped with fibre optic sensors | Jannick Fuchs, IKV
Geometry dependent set-up of the injection velocity profile on the injection moulding machine | Thilo Köbel, IKV Use of recyclates in food contact - method development for the validation of plasma-induced barriers | Ali Cetin, IKV Analysis of the influence of the surface finish on fibre-optic measurements for hydrogen pressure vessels of type IV | Thomas Gebhart, IKV
11.30 Break and visit of the industry trade show

Time Europasaal Brüsselsaal K1 Aachen
11.45 Session 10: Assistance systems in injection moulding Session 11: Resource efficiency for rubber applications Session 12: Improved fatigue life prediction of fibre-reinforced products
Challenges in data management and analysis for AI applications in injection molding: Exploring limitations and solutions | Dr.-Ing. Melanie Rohde-Tibitanzl, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Thermal barriers for lithium-ion batteries | Dr.-Ing. Christopher Neumann, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Fatigue strength assessment of short fiber reinforced thermoplastics at Bosch –component simulation and material data generation | Dr.-Ing. Jan-Martin Kaiser, Bosch
Development of a recommender system for the plasticising phase of injection moulding | Matthias Schöll, IKV Investigation on the influence of the porosity on the mechanical properties of rubber foamed by thermoplastic expanding microspheres | Richard Frohberg, IKV A more time-efficient method for fatigue testing of UD-FRP in the long-term strength range | Nicolás Rozo Lopez, IKV
Iterative optimisation of injection moulding setting parameters with Bayesian Optimisation in simulation | Yannik Lockner, IKV Determination of formulation-induced changes in cross-link density using the acoustic resonance frequency | Fabian Fey, IKV Load redistribution effects in short fibre reinforced thermo-plastics during fatigue | Roman Schmohl, IKV
12.45 Lunch break and visit of the industry trade show

Time Europasaal Brüsselsaal K1 Aachen
14.00 Session 13: Challenges of PCR processing Session 14: Cost-efficient lightweight design of tape reinforced mass-production parts Session 15: Intelligent tools for improved design and processes in additive manufacturing
The „European Green Deal“ and the impact on flexible packaging | Dr.-Ing. Stefan Seibel, Brückner Maschinenbau TABASKO – tape based carbon fibre lightweight design | Michael Johann, Porsche Engineering Additive manufacturing - An alternative for the production of pressure-loaded components? | Dr.-Ing. Jochen Hauck, SIMONA
Influence of varying material components in representative polyethylene recyclates on the mechanical properties of blown films | Elena Berg, IKV Melt-impregnation of UD-Tapes: Examination of a flexible manufacturing process and design considerations | Timo Witte, IKV Automatic optimisation of additively manufactured static mixers under consideration of design restrictions | Jana Sasse, IKV
Influence of post-consumer recyclates on roll deposit formation in flat film extrusion | Daniel Grüber, IKV Thermoplastic tape reinforcement in injection moulded structures - A multi-objective optimisation | Martin Giersberg Sola, IKV Measurement and influence of the interlayer-temperature on the resulting part-strengths in screw extrusion-based additive manufacturing | Tibor Fritsch, IKV
15.00 Coffee break and visit of the industry trade show

Time Europasaal Speaker
15.15 Plenary lecture: What is the state of Germany as an industrial location? Economic outlook and challenges Dr. oec. Carolin Vogt, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG
16.00 Closing remarks and farewell Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann, IKV
All information about the programme may be subject to change. As of 22 February 2024