Fraunhofer Group for ProductionOur infrastructures, laboratories, and testing facilities: from idea to implementation
The member institutes of the Fraunhofer Group for Production offer a variety of demonstration and test environments. These support companies throughout their innovation journey, from the first challenge to successful industrial application. The environments include creative spaces for ideation, immersive areas for visualization and simulation, specialized testing and laboratory facilities, technological pilot lines, and real production and operational settings.
This integrated offering helps companies analyze challenges, assess technological options, test development steps with reduced risk, and transfer new solutions into scalable production and application scenarios. The close connection between the different environments adds value, linking early ideation spaces, validation and testing fields, production-related technical centers, and real application laboratories.
The overview below shows how these demonstration and test environments support typical development and implementation steps, providing the greatest benefit at each stage. This highlights both the diversity of the Group and the strength of a holistic, needs-oriented offering for research and industry.
