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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

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Reorganisation Management

  • Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and Liquidation
  • International Financial Management
  • Financial Statement Analysis

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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

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Figure. Effects of consumer reviews

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

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Figure: Number of fined cartels and fine amount, European Union, 1990-2014.

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

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Use of the campus management system on mobile devices

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

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Application example of a central venous catheter in infusion therapy (Image source: B.Braun Melsungen AG)

BioMatPur

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

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Symbol image of user-centred development process, created with ChatGPT

NEMo-Ass

  • User-centred design
  • Technology acceptance
  • Mobility support
  • Intelligent robots
  • Autonomy and safety
  • Ageing society
  • Care

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Digital model of a structure to be created and next to it the 3-dimensional print result as a surface profile

MatInWLP

  • Wafer bonding
  • 3D electronics printing technology
  • metallization
  • sustainability
  • Resource efficiency

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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

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Knowledge and technology transfer Development

EMProBio

  • Biogenic plastics
  • Primary molding process
  • Energy management/ CO2 footprint
  • Adhesive joints
  • Screw connections

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Blank of a chair seat shell made of veneer plywood, after the moulding process.

FurForS

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

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ExAM Optimierung durch Simulation

ExAM

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

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Internal measures on CO2 consumption of injection moulds

SustainTool

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

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PolyVeTex

  • Smart textiles
  • Highly conductive polymers
  • Elastic polymer blends
  • Low-melting metals
  • Compounding
  • Structure-property relationships

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Project KoReAlt

  • Medical devices
  • Plastics / medical grade plastics
  • Artificial / accelerated ageing
  • Sterilisation (gamma, ETO, H₂O₂, steam)
  • Test specimens / design reference
  • Characterisation methods (mechanical, chemical, optical, biological)
  • Reuse vs. single-use scenario
  • Optimised ageing model

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Outgoing research projects

Robot arm 3D-FMM

3D-FMM

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

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HIS research information system on the smartphone

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

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Research data management (FDM) at universities of applied sciences (HAW)

  • Management (FDM)
  • Archiving
  • Licensing (of usage rights)
  • Life cycle
  • Enrichment
  • Infrastructure
  • Reuse

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Production processes can be controlled in real time using modern campus networks. (Source: © Adobe Stock / Gorodenkoff)

6G-Terafactory

  • Production automation
  • Process optimisation
  • Industrial robotics
  • Mobile robotics
  • User acceptance

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Gas exhaust nozzle specially developed for EUV generation

EUV-4-LITHO

  • Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation
  • Laser-based EUV radiation sources
  • Laser-plasma interactions
  • High vacuum technology
  • Investigation of components for EUV lithography and mask inspection

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Project InMeA

  • Analysis of extensive infrastructure measurement data
  • Analysis of traffic measurement data
  • Analysis of environmental measurement data

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Basic concept KIOptiPack

KIOptiPack

  • Injection moulding
  • Material characterisation
  • Plastics recycling
  • Sustainability
  • Resource conservation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Process monitoring

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BUNT

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

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Architektur LXP-Prototyp from the EduPLEx_API project.

EduPLEx_API

  • Learning Experience
  • Adaptive learning concepts
  • Skills Matching
  • Career development
  • xAP

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Supply chain of the AIPro research project

Projekt AlPro

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

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RoboTraces robots in Town

RoboTraces

  • Mobile robotics
  • Automated driving
  • User acceptance
  • Last mile
  • Urban logistics

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Schematic representation of the components of a marking system

PUDIS

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

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Comparison of surfaces with different foaming processes

Q-Schaum

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

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The localisation of surface contamination using multimodal sensor technology is shown

RessFBBM

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

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SONARO process sequence

SONARO

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

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NextMould Research Group – Cornet Projects

NextMould

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

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Large tools - Classifier - Machine learning - Assistance system Source: Schneider Form GmbH

WASABI

  • Large tools
  • Classifier
  • Machine learning
  • Assistance system

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Schematic representation of the 3D scanning of a knife impression with strip light projection

SMoSys

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

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Electrically conductive demonstrator (parquet element) in composite construction

EleiK

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

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Functional semi‐finished composite (modified carrier material + decorative layers + control electronics)

FuriX

  • Wood materials
  • Renewable raw materials
  • Functional integration  

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NVIDIA DGX-1 V100 machine learning server, FESTO Robotino® with Logistic Kit and FESTO Compact workstation.

TransML

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

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Arc welded insert with internal cooling channels

TemGro

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

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The ImPro module is integrated into the injection mould (SGW). This enables specific and revisable data to be carried along coupled to the mould.

ImPro

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

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CAD model of a mould-integrated individual component marking Photo: Formconsult Werkzeugbau GmbH

InTrance

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

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Photograph of the chopping unit with blades fitted

EMIL

  • Machine learning
  • 3D measurement
  • Condition monitoring
  • Vibration analysis
  • Software development

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Depiction of a laboratory sample of the recording hardware

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 

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BiofuelTriC Alternative diesel and petrol fuel Presentation

BiokraftTriC

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

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