data intelligence & automation for human-centered factories.

The Center Smart Assembly on RWTH Aachen Campus promotes the idea of resilient and sustainable assembly systems and its necessitated metrology-assisted production chains. Its members are enabled to apply cutting-edge technologies, such as omnidirectional conveyance systems, self-optimizing processes and agile reconfiguration measures facilitated by Cyber-Physical Production Systems.

The assembly process of parts and products is experiencing fundamental changes due to new technologies from Industry 4.0. The Center Smart Assembly offers a platform for the transfer of ideas regarding lineless assembly systems and acts as a matchmaker between industrial needs and academic knowledge. It is part of the Production Engineering Cluster one of the largest research laboratories for production engineering and Industrie 4.0 in Europe.

 

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News

22.09.2026 | Invitation to the Future Assembly 2026 Forum: Insights into the future of assembly / Made in Aachen

How are embodied AI, agent-based AI and computer vision transforming assembly?What opportunities does this open up for robotics and automation – and for your…

13.08.2025 | Invitation to the Future Assembly 2025 forum: Shaping the assembly of tomorrow together!

We are pleased to invite you to the Future Assembly Forum, which will take place on 28 October 2025 from 9 am to 4…

Our research focuses

Our consortial research focuses on these topics:
  • Planning and Design of Line-less and Matrix-like Assembly Systems
  • Smart Data Interpretation for Management and Assembly Workers
  • Metrology-Assisted Production Chains
  • Cyber-Physical Production Systems
  • Control of Automated Cooperating Robots
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Initiators

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schmitt

Chair of Intelligence in Quality Sensing
WZL | RWTH Aachen University

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Günther Schuh

Chair of Production Engineering
WZL | RWTH Aachen University

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Brecher

Chair of Machine Tools
WZL | RWTH Aachen University