Conference Program

Tuesday, January 21, 2024

12:30 pm Welcome & Introduction
1:00 pm Process Control in Sputtering Applications
Marcus Frank
Bühler Leybold Optics
1:30 pm Future Control Demands and Challenges
Ralf Bandorf
Fraunhofer IST
2:00 pm HIPIMS and Pulsed-DC Control 
Thomas Schütte
PLASUS GmbH
2:30 pm Coffee Break & Product Show
3:00 pm Process Control in PECVD Applications
Friedericke von Fragstein
Freudenberg 
3:30 pm Combined Plasma & Layer Control
Jan-Peter Urbach
PLASUS GmbH
4:00 pm Coffee Break & Product Show
4:30 pm Machine Learning & AI in Production
5:00 pm Challenges in generating data for ML & AI
Holger Gerdes
Fraunhofer IST
7:00 pm Dinner at Restaurant Fuchs Blau
sponsored by PLASUS GmbH

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

9:00 am Introduction to experiments
9:30 am Experiments and Hands-On
Station 1: Sputtering 
Station 2: PECVD 
Station 3: Process Control Equipment/ Individual Meetings
12:30 pm Wrap up & Lunch 
1:00 pm End of Workshop