Panorama

On September 23, 2025, the KTmfk – Institute of Engineering Design at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – hosted its annual summer festival. In a relaxed atmosphere, staff members from all research groups took the opportunity to engage in personal exchange and networking. A special highlight was the warm welcom...

Perhaps a little less scientific, but just as engaging: This year, our entire team from the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk) once again took part in the traditional Bergdienstag at the Erlangen Bergkirchweih. Together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandro Wartzack, we swapped the office for a relaxed after...

In the context of digitalised product development, modern concepts such as Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Digital Twin and Digital Engineering appear. However, it is often unclear how these concepts are linked and what role they play in holistic digital engineering. In an interview between ...

This year's NordDesign conference took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 12th to 14th August 2024. We contributed to the well-organised conference with several presentations. They covered our current research on the utilization of system models in the context of digital twins, plausibility check of ...

Jan Kopatsch joined the Tolerance Management research group as a research assistant at the beginning of July. He previously studied mechanical engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He also wrote his project and master's thesis on the topics of metamodel-based optimization...

Following numerous successful projects, the KTmfk and the Institute for Machine Components and Methods of Development at TU Graz met in Graz for a joint strategy meeting «Vision MBSE 2050», led by Prof. Dr. Hannes Hick and Prof. Dr. Sandro Wartzack. Topics included the future of model-based systems ...

This year's Bearing World Conference took place on June 25-26 in Würzburg, Germany. This time the KTmfk was represented by Mrs. Feile, Mr. Halmos, Dr. Bartz and Prof. Wartzack. In addition to a showcase, where current research work of the KTmfk in the field of rolling bearing technology was presente...

On 18 June 2024, Prof. Sandro Wartzack was a guest as a representative of the universities in the live talk of the Blueprint episode "AI in Digital Engineering - Ready for the Revolution?" The advantages and challenges of using AI in digital engineering were discussed: accelerated development cycles...

Mechatronic systems have become increasingly important in recent years and have become an integral part of our lives today. They are characterised in particular by the combination of the fields of mechanics, electrical engineering and information technology. To date, the development of mechatronic s...

During this year's design project course (KoPra), the challenge for the students was to develop an autonomous biathlon vehicle that is driven with the help of a microcontroller. The students' vehicles had to complete the biathlon race autonomously, which was complicated by additional obstacles. On ...