Department of Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Materials (KSTM)

Innovations in Materials Processing and Technologies

Types of services: Manufacturing TechnologiesTesting and Analysis

Areas: AutomotiveMechanical Engineering and Metals

Let's Accelerate Your Innovation

The department specializes in the optimization of manufacturing processes, heat treatment of materials, and comprehensive metallographic evaluation. It is a strategic partner for tackling technically challenging tasks for which companies lack the necessary in-house personnel. This collaboration enables companies to reduce development costs and accelerate the innovation cycle by applying scientific knowledge directly to production.

Solutions for Your Industry

Industrial Manufacturing and Assembly Plants: Management of Innovation Implementation and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes.

Logistics and Equipment Management: Management and maintenance of complex technological systems.

Start-ups and Innovative Companies: Support for the Transfer of Know-How and the Licensing of New Solutions

How We Can Help You

Accelerating Time to Market (Functional Prototyping): Bridging the gap between theoretical designs and the actual production of functional prototypes at competitive costs.
Outsourced R&D Management: Addressing specific technological challenges through contract research without the need to establish in-house development departments.
Effective Technology Transfer: Expert support in licensing and implementing patents into actual operations to enhance your competitiveness.

Instrumentation

The research group makes use of the facilities of state-of-the-art university laboratories coordinated through CENTRATECH:

Laboratory of Physical Methods: Analysis of the Physical Properties of Material Systems.
Heat Treatment Laboratory: Optimization of hardening and tempering processes.
Metallographic Laboratory and Sample Preparation Room: In-depth structural analysis of metals and alloys.
Furnace Laboratory: Experimental Heat Treatment and Testing.

Detailed Job Description

KSTM serves as a bridge of expertise between academic research and the commercial market. We serve as a “Project Management Office” for our industrial partners, ensuring that the technology transfer process meets the company’s quality standards and deadlines. Our expertise includes the lifecycle management of specialized equipment and the coordination of TNUAD’s scientific and research capabilities toward real-world business applications.

Partners Who Trust Us

Konštrukta Defence, a.s. (Collaborative and Custom Research, Scientific and Research Projects)
ZVS Impex, a.s. (Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Supplied Samples)
ZVS holding a.s. (Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Supplied Samples)
ADIENT (Material Analysis of Supplied Samples)
RUDOS RUŽOMBEROK, s.r.o. (Material Analysis of PVD Coatings)

Turn your vision into a commercially successful technology with professional technology transfer management.

Contract Research Without Risk

Carry out projects without investing in your own development teams.

Access to Technology

Take advantage of laboratories and equipment worth millions of euros.

Solving Challenging Problems

Leave the technically complex tasks that hold back your core business to us.

Cost Sharing

The possibility of funding innovation through joint grant programs.