Production at the Leading Edge of Technology [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP), Dresden, September 2021 / edited by Bernd-Arno Behrens, Alexander Brosius, Welf-Guntram Drossel, Wolfgang Hintze, Steffen Ihlenfeldt, Peter Nyhuis.

Concept Development and Validation of Manufacturing Processes for the Integration of Current-Carrying Conductors in Ceramic Substrates -- Development of a multi-physical kinetics model for electrodynamic machine hammer peening using machine learning approaches -- Data-based approach to support the implementation of new product variants in digital assembly assistance systems -- Databased Decision Support for the Design of Business Processes in Manufacturing Companies -- Quality Improvement through Data Analysis – Qualification of Failure Management by Standardized Failure Recording in Manual Assembly.

This congress proceedings provides recent research on leading-edge manufacturing processes. The aim of this scientific congress is to work out diverse individual solutions of "production at the leading edge of technolgy" and transferable methodological approaches. In addition, guest speakers with different backgrounds will give the congress participants food for thoughts, interpretations, views and suggestions. The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing a profound structural change, which on the one hand produces innovative solutions through the use of high-performance communication and information technology, and on the other hand is driven by new requirements for goods, especially in the mobility and energy sector. With the social discourse on how we should live and act primarily according to guidelines of sustainability, structural change is gaining increasing dynamic. It is essential to translate politically specified sustainability goals into socially accepted and marketable technical solutions. Production research is meeting this challenge and will make important contributions and provide innovative solutions from different perspectives.