The MATERIALS competence comprises our very profound knowledge about chemical and biological compounds, their utilization and synthesis, their properties and their potential application fields. It includes our knowledge about materials, their properties and processing as well as their suitability for various applications.
The TECHNOLOGIES competence comprises our very profound knowledge about machining, processing, detection and analytical methods. It includes decades of experience in optimized operation parameters as well as suitable application scenarios for each of these technologies.
The PROCESSES competence comprises our ability to perform the translation of concepts into devices or entire systems essentially required for fulfilling any single kind of operation. It is about our application related knowledge of processes in various disciplines as well as our ability to perform the physical construction work.
The ENGINEERING competence comprises our higher-level engineering abilities used to initiate, design, develop, fabricate and realize a process or system reaching the required level of integration, functionality and complexity.
Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM