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12.06.25: Visit to Deutz in Ulm with Students of the Lecture Series "The Circular Factory"

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21.05.25: CRC Career Evening for Women

Career evening for women hosted by the CRC. LinkedIn-Link

17.05.25: KIT open day

The CRC organized tours through the Circular Factory at the KIT open day 2025. LinkedIn-Link

12. & 13.05.25: CRC Retreat

Second Retreat in the active Phase of the CRC. LinkedIn-Link

22.04.25: Start of the Lecture Series "The Circular Factory"

Start of the Lecture Series with participation of the PIs of the CRC. LinkedIn-Link.

8.-10.04.25: Rematec and ICoR Conference

Participation of the CRC in the Rematec and ICoR conference

03.04.25: KIT Girls Day in the Circular Factory

High School students visited the Circular Factory on the KIT Girls Day. Colleagues of the CRC consortium held two Workshops. The first Workshop was about how a machine can learn from humans. The second was about 3D printing in action.

12.03.25: Karlsruhe Symposium for Product Production Co-Design

With the presentation of the CRC working group "Functional Modeling" given by Patric Grauberger and Jan-Philipp Kaiser. LinkedIn-Link

20.02.25: Workshop on knowledge modeling

All people involved in the CRC came together for a knowledge modeling workshop. The relevance for knowledge modeling was worked out for every subproject. The goal is to build up a joint knowledge base using ontologies and the data platform Kadi4mat. 

28.01.25: Excursion to Deutz in Ulm

Excursion to Deutz Plant in Ulm. Here, used motors are reworked. Exciting to see remanufacturing in industrial practice!

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22.01.25: Angle Grinder Workshop

Getting to know the angle grinder as the demonstrator product of our CRC

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20.01.25: Visit of C-ECO

Visit of PhD-students of the CRC at C-ECO. LinkedIn-Link

14.01.-16.01.25: CRC Winter-School

Two days of training and workshops followed by a day of guest lectures (Prof. Allwood - Cambridge, Prof. Hüttl-Maack - Hohenheim, Prof. Rashid - KTH and Prof. Sundin - Linköping) and a doctoral colloquium.

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09.12.24: Visit of ZKM Karlsruhe in the Circular Factory

Visit of the "Zentrum für Kunst und Medien" (ZKM) in the Circular Factory. Coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Deml, possible collaboration in public relations was discussed.

07.11.24: First meeting of the industry advisory board of the CRC Circular Factory

Visit by representatives of industrial companies with a sustainability focus

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06.11.24: Karlsruher Herbsttagung 2024 - Circular Production – Paving the way for a Sustainable Future

Presentation of the CRC 1574 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza and Prof. Dr.-Ing Sven Matthiesen

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18.10.24: Conrad-Matschoß-Kreis

Presentation of the CRC 1574 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza

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15.10.-16.10.24: Produktionsmanagement-Tagung

Presentation of the CRC 1574 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza

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07.10.-08.10.24: Summit Allgäu Produktion

Presentation of the CRC 1574 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza

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17.09.24: Visit of Politicians in the circular factory

Visit of Ingo Wellenreuther (MdB), Nicolas Zippelius (MdB) and Ansgar Mayr (MdL)

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25.07.24: Visit of the KIT-Business-Club in the circular factory

Visit of representatives of industry partners of the KIT in the circular factory

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11.07.24: Career evening for women

Career evening for women pursuing a technical degree with interest for a doctoral program

08.07.-12.07.24: Summer School with General Assembly

Five days packed with scientific discussion, guest lectures, team building and workshops

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20.06.24: CRC Hackathon

Hackathon with students, financially supported by the CRC

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07.06.24: Visit of University of Strahclyde (Prof. Ijomah and Prof. Maier)

Keynote by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza 

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June 2024: Visit of Supply Chain AI Lab (Cambridge University)

Keynote by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza with the title "Maximizing the Resource Efficiency for a Value-Adding Sustainability"

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14.05.24: Visit of Deutz in the circular factory

Visit of representatives of the management of Deutz plant in Ulm in the circular factory

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29.04.24-30.04.24: Retreat and CRC Workshops

First team event with workshops for research in the CRC

25.04.24: Girls Day

Tour through the Circular Factory with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frederik Zanger for girls with interest in a technical degree.

22.04.-26.04.24: The CRC Circular Factory at the Hannover Fair

Presentation of the prototype hardware stations

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11.04.24: Filming of ZDF TV report

Visit of a film crew for filming a TV report in the circular factory

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03.04.24: Hager Group visit in the circular factory

Visit of Sabine Busse (CEO)

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12.03-13.03.24: World Remanufacturing Summit

Presentation of the CRC 1574 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza

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Press releases

ZDF heute journal - TV Report

3sat NANO - TV Report

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Vision of the perpetual innovative product

‘On the way to the perpetual innovative product’ – The ‘Circular factory’ collaborative research centre at the KIT is revolutionizing industrial production

IndustryArena - The circular factory - the perpetual innovative product

Circular Technology - The perpetual innovative product from the circular factory

IDW - KIT: Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

PublicManager - KIT: Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Plastverarbeiter - KIT wants to optimize circular processes with a circular factory

Explortal-Logistics - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Magazin.tools - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Ingenieurmagazin - Development of a circular factory

Recyclingportal - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Ingenieur.de - The circular factory makes us dream of the eternal innovative product

Solarify - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

QZ-Online - Circular Factory for the perpetual innovative product

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Vision of the perpetual innovative product

Home of Welding - Circular Factory is set to revolutionize production

Alphagalileo - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Pro-physik - The circular factory for the perpetual innovative product

Oiger - Circular factory is set to produce the "perpetual innovative" product

Staatsanzeiger - Researchers are working on the vision of the perpetual innovative product

Bioökonomie BW - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Kabinett - KIT: Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Flüssiges Obst - Vision of the perpetual innovative product: The circular factory is set to revolutionize production

Greentech LIVE - KIT works on the circular factory for the "perpetual innovative product"