Automotive Quality Saar AQS

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Automotive Quality Saar AQS, Saarbrücken

Active components to control vibrations

In the Automotive Quality Saar innovation cluster, cooperation partners from research and development, industry and professional associations have pooled their skills in a technology development center. The center is based at the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing IZFP in Saarbrücken. It offers one-stop solutions for quality assurance in the manufacture and processing of automotive materials and components, and for quality-assured and reliable application of components and assemblies, particularly in the main modules:

Engines and generators

Drive trains, chassis frames, steering assemblies

Bodywork: structural components and external parts

The center has a shared resource facility, in which state-of-the-art non-destructive testing technologies are made available, developedand enhanced, and qualified in an accredited testing laboratory. A further point of focus is technology qualification through extra-occupational training and further education programs in engineering.

 

 

Thematic areas

  • Non-destructive testing and measurement
  • In-process and production-related quality control/error testing (zero-defect strategy)
  • Quality assurance and non-destructive material and component testing for
  • new materials and construction methods
  • innovative joining and connecting techniques
  • processing and manufacturing techniques
  • production and process engineering
  • safety, reliability and durability

The automotive industry is an important pillar of the European econ-omy. Over the last fifteen years, the Saar region has developed into one of the largest sites in the automotive supplier sector. This is due not least to its geographical position at the epicenter of Europe’s major automotive locations in Germany, France and Belgium.


Research Partners

Industrial Partners

Carlsson Autotechnik GmbH
FORGIS – Institut für Fahrzeug- und Umwelttechnik gGmbH
Halberg Guss GmbH
Nedschroef GmbH
Nemak/Hydro Aluminium Alucast GmbH
Netzwerk automotive.saarland
Robert Bosch GmbH
Schweißtechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt SLV im Saarland
Tec4U Ingenieurgesellschaft
ThyssenKrupp Drauz Nothelfer GmbH
TÜV Saarland e.V.
and others

Contact

  • Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Kraus

    Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing IZFP

    Fraunhofer IZFP, Campus E3 1
    66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

    • Phone +49 681 9302-3811
    • Fax +49 681 9302-113811

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Valeske

    Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing IZFP

    Fraunhofer IZFP, Campus E3 1
    66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

    • Phone +49 681 9302-3989
    • Fax +49 681 9302-11-3989