The Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) of Technische Universität München is one of the major production technology institutes in Germany and consists of two chairs of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Garching near Munich as well as a user centre in the area of production engineering in Augsburg. The two ordinariates, Institute for Industrial Management and Assembly Technologies and Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technology, define the focus of the research topics of the iwb. These are manufacturing processes, machine tools, handling, assembling and joining technology, control technology, robotics as well as industrial management, factory planning and logistics. The staff of the iwb dedicate themselves to those fields in their research, teaching, and industrial exchange.

Locations
iwb sites in Garching and Augsburg

Staff
The people, who make the iwb work

Spin-off Companies
Past researches of the iwb succesfully established several spin-off companies.