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Perpetual innovative products from circular factories for sustainable production

• Gisela Lanza

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gisela Lanza is member of the management board at the Institute of Production Science (wbk) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She heads the Production Systems division dealing with the topics of global production strategies, production system planning, and quality assurance in research and industrial practice. In 2009 she received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz award of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements after the doctorate, and was awarded in 2016 with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon. She is an active member of the scientific advisory board of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech) and the national platform Industrie 4.0, as well as of the Steering Committee of the Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg. She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, since 2022.

  , Michael Martin

  Michael Martin, M.Sc. is a research associate in the area of Global Production Strategies at the wbk Institute of Production Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research focuses on the reconfiguration of and order allocation in production networks.

  and Georg Bretthauer

  Georg Bretthauer obtained the Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing., and Dr.-Ing. habil. degrees in Automatic Control at the University of Technology, Dresden in 1970, 1977, and 1983, respectively. From 1997 to 2015 he was a full professor for Applied Computer Sciences and Automatic Control and the Head of the Institute of Applied Computer Sciences and Automatic Control (AIA) at the University of Karlsruhe and the Head of the Institute of Applied Computer Sciences (IAI) at the Karlsruhe Research Center (now KIT). From 2002 to 2018 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Automatisierungstechnik – at. His research interests include identification, automation, mechatronics, and artificial intelligence.