The University of Bremen is a mid-sized German university with 290 professorships and almost 20,000 enrolled students and offers a broad range of subjects and outstanding, internationally renowned research. At the same time it provides a distinguished diversity management that realizes equal opportunities and is certified as family-friendly University. Within this highly attractive framework the following DFG-funded Research Training group has been established in the Department of Production Engineering which is one of the top departments in Germany in terms of extramural funding.