Institute of Automotive Management and Industrial Production (AIP)

For more than 20 years, AIP has proven research competence in the design, planning, and control of industrial production and logistics systems. Our mission statement is technology and decision-oriented business economics. Here we model processes and systems according to the problems under consideration. On this basis, we develop decision support models which we apply in industry and politics to derive recommendations for appropriate activities. In interdisciplinary teams, challenging questions are often dealt with directly on site and in a practice-oriented manner. Our research addresses the classic production and logistics management. The spectrum of our research ranges from production, logistics, and supply chain management to environmental protection. Our research is enhanced in the four areas „Energy“ , "Digitization", "Mobility", and "Resources". In these areas, we develop innovative solutions for current problems, derive applicable suggestions for improvement, and support their implementation. In numerous research projects, we work together with national and international partners from academia and industry, often with the involvement of public funding organizations such as the German Research Foundation (DFG) and various federal ministries. The aim is to transfer sophisticated theoretical work into industrial applications. To this end, the Chair cooperates with companies from a wide range of sectors and sizes, from local recycling companies to global partners from the automotive and steel industries. The results are also reflected in a large number of publications in leading international journals. We also contribute our strengths to the active design of various research centers.