Overview

AMARETO is the collaboration of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, TU Dresden, TU Chemnitz and Fraunhofer IWU with the objectives:

• Cross-locational collaboration to enhance application oriented research
• Value-adding consolidation of advanced research in Saxon industry
• Targeted reduction of barrieres and restraints within the value chain
• Visible "landmark" of material and production research for and in Saxony
• Strong impulse for scientific excellence in the competition for the best "heads"
• Continuation of the Excellence Initiative of Saxony in the period 2017-2020

As the following-up project of the excellence clusters, AMARETO consits of the following three interconnected fields of work:

ADDE
Freiberg

Smart Material
Material and Functionalization

Efficient Material Design

ECEMP
Dresden

Smart Design
Component and Process

More efficient to prototype

eniPROD
Chemnitz

Smart Production
Production engineering and -technology

More efficient to product

The increasing product diversity demands new strategies for a more efficient and flexible development of materials, components and production processes. The concomitant demand for shorter time to market increases the risk for development, production and launch of products. However smaller businesses often do not have the ressources and product portfolio for early risk minimization measures.

Therefore the main objective of AMARETO is to develop improved methods and transfer solutions for parts of the value chain, enabling SME to significantly reduce the risks connected to product launches.

The scientific approach of AMARETO is to bundle the competences of the different research complexes of the preceding Excellence Initiative, to collaboratively develop materials, components and production processes, optimize the value chain and realize a shorter time to market. By transferring the scientific results into the SME-shaped Saxon economy, SME can establish efficient value chains and thus considerably reduce their capital risk.