Publications
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
Whenever possible, LCS publishes results of research and industry projects in order to spread newly gained knowledge with a wide public community for triggering multiplier effects.
Publications by our clients (more information available upon request)
- Airbus: Hybrid jointing technologies (ecology and economics)
- Audi: Hybrid jointing technologies (ecology and economics)
- Audi/Daimler/Dürr/Fraunhofer IPA/Wörwag: Modular painting (ecology)
- BMW: Clear coat technologies for automotive painting (ecology)
- Bombardier: Hybrid jointing technologies (ecology and economics)
- Covestro (former: Bayer MaterialScience): Low temperature materials for automotive painting (ecology and economics)
- Covestro/PPG: Low temperature materials (ecology)
- Daimler Truck/BASF Coatings: EcoPaint Process Trucks (ecology)
- Fraunhofer ISC: Switchable optical layers (ecology)
- Fried Kunststofftechnik: Energy and material efficiency
- John Deere: Energy and material efficiency
- MAGNA STEYR: Application of energy models
- Mercedes-Benz: Cleaning of automobile bodies (ecology)
- Richard Henkel: Energy and material efficiency
- Sauter: Powder coating (ecology)
- Schupp Musterkarten: Energy and material efficiency
- Volkswagen: Automotive painting (ecology and economics)
Current presentations and publications by LCS
- BESSER LACKIEREN | February und March 2021 - Daimler Truck, BASF Coatings, LCS Article - EcoPaint Process Trucks - Part 1 and Part 2 (in German)
- BESSER LACKIEREN | 17. April 2020 - LCS Article - Sustainable investment and holistic optimization (in German)
- BMBF joint research project Hybrid joining technologies for lightweight construction in transport applications (TransHybrid) subproject: Life Cycle Analysis, investigation of sustainability, December 2015
- Lackierverfahren ökonomisch und ökologisch optmieren, presentation at besser.lackieren Benchmark-Konferenz in Bad Nauheim, Germany, 25.-26. November 2014
- New prospects for curing paint at low temperatures, presentation at the Car Body Painting - 31st Workshop of the 1st German Automotive Circle in Bad Nauheim, Germany, 03.-04. November 2014
- Ganzheitliche Potenzialanalyse von Niedertemperaturprozessen in der Automobilserienlackierung, presentation at the European Automotive Coating - 21. DFO Automobil-Tagung in Augsburg, Germany, 20.-21. Mai 2014
- Lackierprozesse ressourceneffizient gestalten - Ökobilanzierung, in: besser lackieren! Jahrbuch 2014; Ondratschek, Tiedje (Hrsg.), Vincentz Network, Hannover, 2013
- Aktuelle Strategien für eine ökonomisch und ökologisch effiziente Lackiererei, presentation at the Benchmark-Konferenz besser lackieren. in Bad Nauheim, Germany, 26.-27. November 2013
- Realization of LCA in Business - Life Cycle Simulation Models for Products or Technology Design, Lecture at the International Conference Life Cycle Management (LCM) 2013 Göteborg, Sweden, 25.-28. August 2013
Short Paper
Presentation - Development, simulation and process secure implementation of an environmental friendly and competitive coating process for complex plastic parts (ENSIKOM), S. 236-242, in: Innovative Technologien für Ressourceneffizienz in rohstoffintensiven Produktionsprozessen - Ergebnisse der Fördermaßnahme r², Fraunhofer ISI and Fraunhofer ICT (Hrsg.), Fraunhofer Verlag, Stuttgart, August 2013
- Life Cycle Assessment and Costing for Measuring Sustainability of Coatings, EC European Coatings Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany, 18.-19. June 2013
Abstract
Presentation - Hochkarätig besetzte Jury unterstützt Benchmark-Wettbewerb um den besser lackieren. Green Award, in: besser lackieren!, Nr. 7, Vincentz Network, Hannover, 19. April 2013
- Lackierprozesse nachhaltig gestalten - Strategien für eine ökonomisch und ökologisch effiziente Lackiererei, in : besser lackieren!, Nr. 5, Vincentz Network, Hannover, 15. March 2013
- Lackierprozesse ressourceneffizient gestalten - Ökobilanzierung, in: besser lackieren! Jahrbuch 2013; Ondratschek, Tiedje (Hrsg.), Vincentz Network, Hannover, 2012
- Lackierprozesse nachhaltig gestalten; WebSeminar, besser lackieren!, 20. November 2012
- Ökobilanz als Maß für Ressourcenschonung von Beschichtungen, 77. Lacktagung, GDCh, Bremerhaven, Germany, 26.-28. September 2012
- Resource Efficiency in Car Body Painting - the Challenges, Automotive Circle International, Berlin, Germany, 28.-29. June 2012