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Faculty Engineering Sciences

Chair in Resource-efficient Manufacturing Technology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Julia Zähr
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Julia Zähr
Fakultät Ingenieurwissenschaften
Visitor address
Technikumplatz 17b
09648 Mittweida
7-107
Postal address
Mittweida University
Fakultät Ingenieurwissenschaften
Technikumplatz 17
09648 Mittweida

Teaching

The Chair is actively involved in training future engineers and incorporates the latest research findings directly into its teaching.

Courses and student projects are offered in particular within the following degree programmes:

  • The role of joining within the broader field of manufacturing technologies
  • Overview of joinability 
  • Overview of joining processes: welding, brazing, bonding, forming-based joining

  • Introduction to joinability analysis 
  • Welding options: Arc welding processes: gas metal arc welding, tungsten inert gas welding, laser beam welding, resistance welding
  • Weldability: unalloyed, low-alloy and high-alloy steels, aluminium
  • Soldering technology: processes, solder materials, fluxes, surface activation, design considerations 
  • Adhesive bonding: processes, adhesives, surface cleaning, design criteria
  • Forming-based joining processes: Punch riveting, clinching

  • Fundamentals of Plastic Deformation
    • Structure and deformation mechanisms of metals, experimental determination of yield curves, stress states, classification of forming processes according to forming temperature, formability, materials for solid and sheet metal forming
  • Selected processes for the production of semi-finished products
    • Cold rolling, wire drawing, bar/tube drawing
  • Selected processes for solid forming (cold and hot solid forming)
    • Upsetting, free-form forming, die forging, tapering, extrusion, rolling 
  • Selected processes for sheet metal forming
    • Cutting, deep drawing, stretch drawing, IHU, bending
  • Forming machines

  • Welding options – Manufacturing
    • Fusion welding processes: welding with an oxy-fuel flame; arc welding; jet welding; 
    • Press welding processes
    • Thermal cutting
    • Automation
  • Weldability – Materials
    • Welding of unalloyed and low-alloy steels; high-alloy steels; cast materials; aluminium; copper; material-induced weld seam irregularities

  • Introduction and Overview of Joining Technology 
  • Welding: Overview; Arc welding processes (arc welding in general, metal-inert gas welding (MIG), tungsten inert gas welding (TIG), laser beam welding, pressure welding; weldability (steel, aluminium); Automated welding
  • Adhesive Bonding: Methods, Adhesives, Surface Cleaning, Design Criteria
  • Forming-based joining processes: Punch riveting, clinching

Career

September 2021 to present

Professor of Automated Joining Processes and Simulation, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (FH)

2012–2021

SICK Engineering GmbH, Basic Research and Development, Ottendorf-Okrilla; Project and Team Leader

2006–2011

TU Dresden, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Joining Technology and Assembly; PhD student and research assistant

2006 to the present

Mühlenbau Herrmann Zähr, Bautzen; welding supervisor (part-time role)

2021

Appointment

Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (FH); Chair of Automated Joining Processes and Simulation

2010

PhD

Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, PhD thesis on ‘The influence of surface condition on the thermal joining of aluminium’ 

2006

Conclusion

Studied Mechanical Engineering at TU Dresden, graduating with a Dipl.-Ing. degree; specialising in Energy Technology; thesis title: ‘Investigation of surface activation during flux-free hybrid brazing of aluminium using NIR and an electric arc’

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Projects and Publications

Lernförderliche Arbeitsplatzgestaltung und durchgängige Bedienkonzepte für Multi-Cobot-Systeme in Mess- und Schweißprozessen, Teilprojekt 1

  • Term: 2026/01/01 – 2028/12/31
  • Financed by: BMFTR über Projektträger Karlsruhe
  • Funding code: 02L25A080
  • Project managers: Julia Zähr
2907 Julia Zähr

Perspektive Arbeit Lausitz, Teilprojekt 1

  • Term: 2023/09/01 – 2027/04/30
  • Financed by: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Funding code: 02L19C300
  • Project managers: Julia Zähr
2721 Julia Zähr

Innovationscluster HSMW 2023, AP06: Analyse der technischen und wirtschaftlichen Einsatzfähigkeit von Schweiß-Cobots in KMUs

  • Term: 2023/04/01 – 2026/12/31
  • Financed by: Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus
  • Funding code: 100685484
  • Project managers: Julia Zähr
1863 Julia Zähr

Innovationsvorhaben zur Profilschärfung 2022, TP1: Automatisierung des Schweißens von Aluminiumprofilen in KMUs

  • Term: 2022/03/01 – 2025/12/31
  • Financed by: Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus
  • Funding code: 100613388
  • Project managers: Julia Zähr
2635 Julia Zähr

Verbundprojekt: Perspektive Arbeit Lausitz -Kompetenzzentrum für die Arbeit der Zukunft in Sachsen und Brandenburg (PAL); Teilprojekt: Gestaltung und Bewertung ergonomischer hybrider Arbeitssysteme mittels interpretierbarer KI-Modelle und Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion

  • Term: 2021/11/01 – 2027/04/30
  • Financed by: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Funding code: 02L19C300
  • Project managers: Leif Goldhahn
2593 Leif Goldhahn
D. Sauer, R. Ganßauge, J. Zähr

Kompetenzen für die menschzentrierte Robotik in der Kleinserienfertigung

Appeared in: Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 120 (2025), No. 10, P. 671 – 676
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