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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 |
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17.05.25: KIT open day The CRC organized tours through the Circular Factory at the KIT open day 2025. LinkedIn-Link |
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12. & 13.05.25: CRC Retreat Second Retreat in the active Phase of the CRC. LinkedIn-Link |
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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. |
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8.-10.04.25: Rematec and ICoR Conference Participation of the CRC in the Rematec and ICoR conference |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
Press releases
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Vision of the perpetual innovative product
IndustryArena - The circular factory - the perpetual innovative product
Circular Technology - The perpetual innovative product from the circular factory
Plastverarbeiter - KIT wants to optimize circular processes with a circular factory
Ingenieurmagazin - Development of a circular factory
Ingenieur.de - The circular factory makes us dream of the eternal innovative product
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
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
Greentech LIVE - KIT works on the circular factory for the "perpetual innovative product"