New Management at Fraunhofer IPA
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation was given a new managing director in January 2020. After Prof. Thomas Bauernhansl had managed the third-largest Fraunhofer Institute on his own for years, he was most recently supported by Prof. Fritz Klocke from Aachen.
On January 1, 2020, the IPA divisional director of resource-efficient production, Prof. Alexander Sauer (Picture), moved to the executive floor.