Sustainable Production

The lecture Sustainable Production is a specilisation module for students of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering.

Organizational

Event-type Lecture (Bachelor)
Cycle Winter semester
Time frame 4 Credit Points
Language German
Dates The lecture starts in the winter term 2025/2026 on Monday, 13 October 2025
Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Weigold
Assistants Dr.-Ing. Stefan Seyfried
Oskay Ozen M.Sc.
Place L6|03 Room 1 (ETA Factory)

Registration

Registration process TUCaN (opens in new tab)
Participant numbers 30

Exam

Examination notes Project work with final presentation and oral examination regarding the project

Content

Aims On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
  1. Identify challenges and approaches for structuring the transformation towards sustainable production.
  2. Develop suitable scenarios for structuring the transformation towards sustainable production for a specific use case.
  3. Critically evaluate the sustainability efforts of manufacturing companies.
  4. Explain the term sustainability in a differentiated way.
  5. Carry out a greenhouse gas inventory taking into account the industrial energy system.
  6. Recognise the potential of the circular economy and digitalisation for sustainable production.
  7. Reproduce essential requirements for the sustainability reporting of companies.
Contents


 Overview on various aspects/concepts of sustainable production such as:
  • Sustainability (absolute/relative)
  • Transformation concepts and scenario development
  • Energy in the context of production
  • Greenhouse gas emissions and climate impact of production
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Circular economy
  • Benefits of digitalisation for sustainable production
  • Sustainability reporting

Documents

Skript Will be provided via Moodle (opens in new tab)
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Literature Zäh, Michael (Hg.) (2024):
Handbuch nachhaltige Produktion
Rahmenbedingungen, Werkzeuge, Anwendungsfelder. München: Carl Hanser Verlag. 978-3-446-47700-1
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Contact

  Name Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Weigold
Head of Institute [Please contact the secretariat]
+49 6151 16-21877
L1|01 109
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Seyfried
ETA | Energy Technologies and Applications in Production
+49 6151 8229-678
L6|03 (ETA-Fabrik) 203
Oskay Ozen M.Sc.
ETA | Energy Technologies and Applications in Production
+49 6151 8229-635
L6|03 (ETA-Fabrik) 203