Product Development
At Fraunhofer CCPE, product development is guided by the the principles of circular economy and sustainability. Through innovative technology-, design-, and material-oriented approaches, Fraunhofer CCPE supports companies in creating sustainable products. From the design phase, through implementation of circular materials in innovative components and parts using new manufacturing processes, to digital engineering: Throughout the entire product development process, there are levers to make products innovative, circular, and resource-efficient. For example, Fraunhofer CCPE works on mono-material approaches, revolutionizes conventional lightweight construction, questions existing product architectures, and provides data on consumer acceptance and performance expectations in B2C and B2B sectors. A key element is creating prototypes to test effectiveness and performance in the laboratory or even under real conditions as quickly as possible.
New and marketable products for the circular economy emerge in both physical and digital domains. The focus of developments at Fraunhofer CCPE are combined material, construction and manufacturing innovations. When developing new product concepts, questions increasingly arise about digitalization potentials, data sharing between customers and companies during product use phase or application options of artificial intelligence. Agile and interdisciplinary team compositions thus become increasingly important to bring together current technology trends, specific expertise and design competence for implementation. At Fraunhofer CCPE, therefore, researchers from engineering, product design, psychology and digital engineering work together to create innovative products for companies that advance the circular economy.
Your collaboration with Fraunhofer CCPE
Fraunhofer CCPE conducts exclusive research on your behalf or initiates publicly funded research projects together with you that deal with the development and optimization of Product Development. You can find out more in our newsletter archive:
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