Reference Projects
Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences places particular emphasis on cooperation with renowned and innovative companies in the region. Below you will find a selection of projects that reflect the university's broad spectrum of research.
Ongoing research projects

Reorganisation Management
- Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Liquidation
- International Financial Management
- Financial Statement Analysis

Language and Law
- Legal concept formation
- Interpretation of law
- Philosophy of language
- Migrant workers
- Corporate language
- Language policy of companies
- Multilingual legal systems
- English as a court language

Research Area Digitalization & Online Communication
- brand communication
- word of mouth & consumer reviews
- personalized communication
- website satisfaction
- online purchasing behavior
- online trust
- Internet of things
- digitalization

Research area: Economic effects of legal and illegal forms of interfirm cooperation
- Formation of cartels
- Behaviour of cartels
- Collapse of cartels
- Disclosure of cartels
- Evaluation of instruments of cartel prose- cution
- Private and economic damage caused by cartels
- Development of strategic alliances
- Structuring Strategic Alliances
- Efficiency potentials of strategic alliances
- Economic effects of strategic alliances

Campus Management System (CMS) of HIS eG
- Campus management system
- Student administration
- Event management
- Alumni
- Application management
- Examination management
- Degree programme management
- Central database
- Reports and analyses
- Workflow
- Process optimisation

BioMatPur
- Biocompatibility
- Material properties
- Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
- Radiation sterilisation
- Cytotoxicity
- Isocyanate-free polyurethanes

OptiPro
- Low-cost robot compensation
- Micrometre precision through software correction
- Camera and sensor system for fine positioning
- Retrofit solution for laser processing systems
- Flexible calibration and position correction

FurForS
- Wood-based materials
- Regenerative raw materials
- Veneer
- Moisture transport
- Dimensional stability

ExAM
- Extrusion tools
- Additive manufacturing
- Improving the performance of extrusion tools
- Design guide for additively manufactured extrusion tools

SustainTool
- Injection moulding
- Mould design & simulation
- CO2 footprint / emissions determination
- Sustainability management
- Recycling

3D-FMM
- Inline measurement technology
- Software-based error compensation
- Cobot-based precision measurement
- Real-time position correction
- High-precision dimensional control

HIS eG research information system (FIS)
- Research and transfer
- Research information system
- HISinOne / HISinOne-RES
- Management system for projects
- Core data set for research (KDSF)
- Third-party funding notification
- Publications
- Reports and analyses
- Workflow
- Process optimisation

Research data management (FDM) at universities of applied sciences (HAW)
- Management (FDM)
- Archiving
- Licensing (of usage rights)
- Life cycle
- Enrichment
- Infrastructure
- Reuse

6G-Terafactory
- Production automation
- Process optimisation
- Industrial robotics
- Mobile robotics
- User acceptance

Project InMeA
- Analysis of extensive infrastructure measurement data
- Analysis of traffic measurement data
- Analysis of environmental measurement data

KIOptiPack
- Injection moulding
- Material characterisation
- Plastics recycling
- Sustainability
- Resource conservation
- Artificial intelligence
- Process monitoring
Outgoing research projects

BUNT
- Pyrolysis
- Biomass
- Raman spectroscopy
- X-ray diffractometry
- FT-IR spectroscopy
- Particulate, fibre and compound production
- Mechanical properties
- Electrical properties

EduPLEx_API
- Learning Experience
- Adaptive learning concepts
- Skills Matching
- Career development
- xAP

Projekt AlPro
- Aluminium injection moulds
- Additive manufacturing
- WAAM (Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing)
- Machine learning
- Predictive maintenance - component properties

RoboTraces
- Mobile robotics
- Automated driving
- User acceptance
- Last mile
- Urban logistics

PUDIS
- Injection moulding
- Integrated marking system
- Labelling
- Coding mechanisms
- Needle printing process
- Counterfeit protection
- Medical device

Q-Schaum
- Foam injection moulding
- Foam structure
- Production parameters
- Non-destructive quality control
- Correlation analysis
- Measurement method

RessFBBM
- Multimodal/multispectral inspection systems
- Online correction of surface contamination
- AI-based
- Laser ablation processes
- Multimodal, multispectral sensor technology

SONARO
- Situation recognition
- Object recognition & position determination
- Room localisation
- User-centred interaction

NextMould
- Aluminum injection moulding tools
- Deign guideline for aluminum tools
- Additive manufacturing
- Electric arc welding
- Wear protection
- DLC thick-film
- Honeycomb structure

WASABI
- Large tools
- Classifier
- Machine learning
- Assistance system

SMoSys
- Acoustic real-time monitoring Measurement and analysis technology
- Grinding assistance system
- Automated classification
- Microcomputer system
- Complementary measurement methods

EleiK
- Wooden materials
- Renewable resources
- Functional integration
- Electrical conductivity
- Heating function
- Bonding agent layer
- Temperature control

FuriX
- Wood materials
- Renewable raw materials
- Functional integration

TransML
- Teaching and training
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning Server NVIDIA DGX-1
- Robot system FESTO Robotino
- TensorFlow, Caffe, Keras
- Automation and control engineering

TemGro
- Injection moulding
- near-surface cooling channel
- Additive manufacture
- Arc/diffusion welding
- Large moulding tool
- Thermography
- Cycle time
- Warpage

ImPro
- Hardware- / Software- development
- Intelligent documentation module for tools
- Miniaturized computer system for the extended temperature range
- Data revision
- Role management
- Construction data

InTrance
- Injection moulding
- Individual component marking
- In‐situ
- Unique Device Identification (UDI)
- Software and hardware development

EMIL
- Machine learning
- 3D measurement
- Condition monitoring
- Vibration analysis
- Software development

Powermoulds
- Hard and software development
- Microcontroller programming
- Assessment and analysis using SCILAB
- Machine learning methods
- 3D measurement / quality control
- Sensor selection and positioning
- Statistical test planning
- Data fusion

BiokraftTriC
- C-based thin films
- PVD process
- PE-CVD process
- Biodiesel (e.g. RME, SME)