Graduates of the specialisation in General Mechanical Engineering are generalists and can find their way in any professional field thanks to their broad education. Whether you go into development, measurement and control technology, plant construction, motor and pump construction, materials handling or material flow technology, test facility support or robotics, you will find tasks in design development, project management or technical consulting everywhere.

Some of the tasks are e.g.

The following fields of work are examples for some specialisations.

Design of machines and components with the aid of CAD and CAE for

Test facility support

Robotics

Project processing

The projects prepare students for project management activities for the requirements in companies (team work, work plans, milestone planning, etc.).

• Design and development of machines with the help of CAD, CAE
• Construction of test rigs, integration of measurement, control and regulation technology
• Development of production systems
• internal combustion engines
• Turbines, pumps, turbochargers
• Forklifts, driverless transport systems, cranes, hoists
• Machine tools, etc.
• Prototype development
• Measurements to ensure the required properties
• Parameter extraction for the calculation of large systems
• Optimisation of operating behaviour (energy consumption, Industry 4.0)
• Practical approach to different types of robots
• Simulation and optimisation of work tasks
• Planning from pick & place tasks in packaging to optimised path curves in assembly
• 1 design project and
• 1 project of your choice (design/development or test engineering, program development, etc.)

Graduates of the specialisation in production systems are able to select the necessary machines and systems in production with a view to the entire process chain and to optimise production processes from planning to production and assembly with regard to technical and economic aspects.

This offers them a broad field of activity in a wide variety of areas such as

Planning/project planning

• Production planning (suitable production processes including associated devices, machines, ... taking into account the production sequence and production times)
• Layout planning (space requirements, connection possibilities, transport units)
• Factory planning (workshops, production areas, organisation)
• Production planning (prototype construction, series planning)

Control

• Production control
• Process control

Simulation

• Process simulation (simulation of production processes)
• System simulation (simulation of entire production processes including operating personnel)
• Digital factory (virtual simulation of production and organisational processes on the computer)

Design and development of

• jigs and fixtures, machines and systems for production and assembly

Application technology/technical sales

• Advice on setting up production machines and systems at the customer's site