The TTZ Automotive and Industrial Production stands for proven research expertise in technology and decision-oriented business administration. Here we model processes and systems to suit the problems under consideration. Building on this, we develop decision support models that we apply in industry and politics to derive recommendations for action. We work on challenging issues in interdisciplinary teams - with a practical orientation and often directly on site.

The Center for Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering pursues a systemic approach towards the integrated design of products and processes under the requirements of a sustainable development (technical, economic and ecological). It is collocated with the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) of the Technische Universität Braunschweig. It benefits from the experience provided by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann, who is the co-director of the IWF, full professor for Sustainable Manufacturing Life Cycle Engineering and besides also head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Braunschweig.