2020 年度

ＣＩＲＰの夕べ(WEB 講演会)

●日 時：2020 年 12 月 9 日（水）17 時 00 分より●開催方法：ZOOM（WEB 講演会）

●スケジュール
17：00～17：05

一般社団法人 CIRP JAPAN 代表理事挨拶

17：05～18：05
講演題目：

Professor Thomas Bergs (RWTH Aachen University)
Pioneering Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

18：05～18：10

休憩(5 分)

18：10～19：10

Professor Christoph Herrmann(Technical University of Braunschweig)
講演題目：

Urban Production: State of the Art and Future Trends for
Urban Factories

19：10～19：15

閉会の言葉

19：15～19:45

歓談
2021 年 2 月パリ会議，2021 年 8 月 GA についてなどCurriculum Vitae (in brief)

Personal Information

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann
E-Mail: c.herrmann@tu-braunschweig.de

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann is university professor for Sustainable Manufacturing & Life
Cycle Engineering and co-director of IWF, Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology,
Technische Universität Braunschweig as well as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface
Engineering and Thin Films IST.
After his doctor degree (Dr.-Ing.) in 2003 he habilitated in production engineering in 2008 andwas appointed associate professor (apl. Prof.) in 2011. In 2013, he became full professor. As acompany’s founder (2002 - 2007) he has transferred tools and services to support design forenvironment into the electric/electronic and automotive industry. From 2005 to 2008, he was also
scientific director of KERP Center of Excellence Environment & Electronics, Vienna. From August
2009 to February 2013, he was scientific director and member of the Automotive ResearchCenter Niedersachsen (NFF). Since 2009 he leads the Joint German-Australian Research Groupon “Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering” together with Prof. Sami Kara fromthe University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. Since 2012, he is Visiting SIMTech Fellow
at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology. Prof. Herrmann is also member of theOpen Hybrid LabFactory (OHLF). OHLF is a Research Campus supported by the German
Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and organized as Public-Private Partnership for
Innovation aiming at large-scale and long-term cooperation between science and industry.
Professor Herrmann is also member of the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB), an open
research infrastructure to investigate and develop electrochemical storage devices fromlaboratory to pilot plant scale. He is member of Aeronautics Research Centre (NFL) were hefocuses on life cycle engineering to foster energy system transformation in aviation. Within theCenter of Pharmaceutical Engineering (PVZ) he coordinates the work of the cross-sectionalgroup on pharmaceutical manufacturing engineering.
Professor Herrmann has conducted various industry and research projects in the context of life
cycle engineering and sustainable manufacturing on national and international level. He has
published more than 300 papers and book publications as author, co-other and editor. Professor
Herrmann is member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).
In 2011, Prof. Herrmann's team, together with colleagues from Fraunhofer and industry partners,
has won the German Resource Efficiency Award from the Federal Ministry of Economics andTechnology (BMWi), Germany. In 2013 the lecture "Product and Life Cycle Management (Today:Ganzheitliches Life Cycle Management)" was rewarded with the LehrLEO award by the TU
Braunschweig as the best lecture in the bachelor degree programme. In 2018, the same lecture
received the LehrLEO-Star for repeated nomination. From 2009 to 2019 Professor Herrmann wasmentor professor for the Klaus Murmann Fellowship Programme at the Foundation of German
Business (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, sdw). And from 2017 to 2019, Professor Herrmann
was also Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Since November 2018 Prof. Herrmann
is also director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST.

Personal Information

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bergs, MBA
E-Mail: t.bergs@wzl.rwth-aachen.deIn his capacity as a Member of the Board of Directorsof the Fraunhofer Institute for Production TechnologyIPT, Professor Thomas Bergs leads the Process
Technology Division and is the Chair of Manufacturing
Technology at the Laboratory for Machine Tools andProduction Engineering WZL at the RWTH Aachen
University.
For the main part of his academic qualification, ThomasBergs studied design engineering at the RheinischWestfälische Technical University, Aachen. He
graduated in 1995 having written his diploma thesis atthe Engineering Research Center for Net Shape Manufacturing in Columbus, Ohio. In
2001 he went on to earn a doctorate in engineering at the RWTH Aachen University forwhich he was awarded the Borchers Plaque. He also graduated as an Executive Masterof Business Administration in 2011.
Thomas Bergs was a research associate in the Process Technology Section at theFraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen from 1995 to 2000. In theyear 2000, he was appointed Manager of the Laser Engineering Group and of theBusiness Unit »Aachener Werkzeug- und Formenbau« (Aachen Tool and Die Making).
Since 2001 he has also held the position of Managing Director under Professor Fritz
Klocke as institute head. Thomas Bergs has additionally founded the company Aixtoolingin 2005, where he became Managing Director until 2018. Core area of the expertise at
Aixtooling was tool making for precision glass molding as well as advanced glass optics
manufacturing. In 2018 Thomas Bergs was appointed as Professor at the Chair ofManufacturing Technology at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production
Engineering WZL of the RWTH Aachen University and as Director of the Process
Technology Division at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT. As thesuccessor to Professor Fritz Klocke, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of bothproduction engineering institutes. Main focus of his ongoing research activities comply
the digital transformation of manufacturing technologies – so called networked adaptive
production.