We are focused on all the relevant, pressing and complex challenges of factory operation and automation. We help manufacturing companies transition to intelligent manufacturing. We are the technology partner for designing, developing, equipping and operating work, manufacturing and logistics systems and their supply infrastructures. Our departments cover the entire life cycle of products and industrial production systems. We design work systems in which humans and machines collaborate. We combine these work systems into efficient production and logistics systems and connect them with each other and their environment through intelligent infrastructures.
Focus of the Business Unit:
Energy Systems and Infrastructures
Energy and raw material prices are rising as fossil energy sources are depleted. Making renewable energy resources utilizable has thus become a crucial issue of our day. This is accompanied by demands to utilize energy efficiently to cut costs in companies despite rising energy prices.
The Energy Systems and Infrastructures Research Field develops innovative technologies that efficiently convert and sustainably supply energy. We do this by creating optimally closed energy cycles in production processes or by utilizing renewable energy resources in efficient conversion systems.
The increasing use of renewable energies is imposing additional demands on energy supply systems’ electrical and information technologies. We develop solutions for large-scale monitoring, control and protection of the smart grids of the future incorporating the generator, load and storage structures.
Fraunhofer IFF offers a real out-of-operation battery storage demonstrator, historical data and research infrastructure to develop reuse, repowering and design-for-reuse concepts for stationary battery systems.
Other
R&D Partner
Demonstrator
Technology Partner
Call Module 2026-05: Hydrogen and renewable fuel
Call Module 2026-04: Industrial carbon management
Call Module 2026-07: Heating and cooling technologies
Call Module 2026-08: Integrated regional energy systems
Call Module 2026-09: Integrated industrial energy systems
Call Module 2026-10: Clean energy integration in the built environment
Call Module 2026-01: Integrated energy system resilience in a changing environment
Call Module 2026-03A/03B: Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production
Call Module 2026-06: Stationary battery technologies and systems for climate-neutral industry and built environment
Fraunhofer IFF offers PV diagnostics expertise, multimodal data analytics and ESI know-how to turn heterogeneous PV data into explainable condition assessment and operator support.
Other
R&D Partner
Demonstrator
Technology Partner
Validator/Living lab
Call Module 2026-05: Hydrogen and renewable fuel
Call Module 2026-04: Industrial carbon management
Call Module 2026-07: Heating and cooling technologies
Call Module 2026-08: Integrated regional energy systems
Call Module 2026-09: Integrated industrial energy systems
Call Module 2026-10: Clean energy integration in the built environment
Call Module 2026-01: Integrated energy system resilience in a changing environment
Call Module 2026-03A/03B: Advanced renewable energy (RE) technologies for power production
Call Module 2026-06: Stationary battery technologies and systems for climate-neutral industry and built environment
We provide advanced expertise in the techno-economic optimization of hydrogen and CO₂ infrastructure to support the transition to sustainable energy systems.