8th ICTM Conference

The manufacturing of aircraft engines and stationary turbomachinery faces growing challenges. Advanced materials, complex component geometries, and increasing demands for productivity, quality, sustainability, and cost efficiency are driving the need for new manufacturing approaches. To address these challenges, manufacturers are increasingly leveraging data-driven process optimization, intelligent automation, and advanced production technologies to enhance process capability, improve operational resilience, and accelerate innovation. Beyond technical excellence, these developments play a critical role in strengthening competitiveness, reducing lead times, optimizing resource utilization, and supporting strategic business objectives in a rapidly evolving industrial landscape.

The ICTM Conference provides a unique platform for decision makers, technology experts, and applied researchers to exchange the latest developments and discuss future directions in turbomachinery manufacturing. Bringing together stakeholders from across the entire value chain, the conference fosters collaboration, knowledge transfer, and the adoption of innovations that drive industrial competitiveness.

At the ICTM Conference, top-class keynote speakers will provide insights, discuss market challenges and solution approaches for manufacturing. Further experts from industry and Fraunhofer will focus on how digitized manufacturing environments and innovative process designs (for conventional machining as well as additive manufacturing) can lead to improvements in quality and efficiency considering technological, economic and ecologic boundary conditions.

In 2027, the sessions of the two-day conference focus on:

• Market view and challenges for aircraft engine and stationary applications
• Future design trends and manufacturing challenges
• Digitized Machining
• AI & Automation in production
• Advanced Machining
• Additive Manufacturing & MRO

The comprehensive program will follow soon.