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SustainTool

Subject of research

Quantifying and increasing sustainability performance along the entire tool life cycle

Results

  • Derivation of measures for more sustainable product design
  • Development of design guidelines for saving energy and resources for moulding tools through innovative tool concepts
  • Co-ordinated, industry-specific and general guidelines for verifying the CO2 balance
  • Development of new business concepts in the area of tool re-use through data-based analysis of the utilisation potential using representative examples

Involved organisations and contact details

Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Production Engineering/Tool Design
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Seul
t.seul@hs-sm.de,

Machine Tool Laboratory WZL of RWTH Aachen University (FE2)
Prof. Dr.-Ing Günther Schuh
Chair of Production Systematics
Campus-Boulevard 30
52074 Aachen

Montanuniversität Leoben
Chair of Plastics Processing
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.mont. Clemens Holzer
Otto Glöckel-Strasse 2
A8700 Leoben

Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH
Theresianumgasse 7
1040 Wien Österreich
Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Martineua Msc.

Third-party funder

DLR Project Management Agency / BMWK - Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection

Additional information

Supply-Chain Production tool
Internal measures on CO2 consumption of injection moulds

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