Ultrafast annealing by flash lamp and laser annealing enables the treatment of near-surface areas of materials with high temperatures in very short times.

The Helmholtz Innovation Lab CLEWATEC researches and develops new technological approaches for flexible and efficient wastewater treatment.

Scientific project Digitalisation will have a decisive impact on the socio-technical systems of tomorrow: On the one hand, the complexity of technical systems is increasing; on the other hand, the associated production systems and the future organization of work are also changing. Mastering complexity requires a cross-disciplinary approach. A system-oriented and model-based development system is required that encompasses all areas of strategic product planning and production system development, including the associated design of work, the associated services and the consideration of the entire value creation system. Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) offers new approaches to this problem. There is a great need for research in this area with regard to engineering in the environment of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) and the continuous mapping of the product and service life cycle. In addition, the internal and cross-company organization must be researched and cross-disciplinary development methods for the interaction of the players involved must be created. In order to achieve the necessary impact from the project results, which will decisively advance Germany as a location for innovation in international competition, higher-level measures are indispensable. In this way, industrial solutions gained can be dovetailed, refined and prioritised with a view to the future. Previous development methodological work has not gone far enough in this respect. The scientific project AdWiSE is being created for the task of such accompanying research.