The Department Assembly and Handling Technology gets its bearing for research and development from industrial and technological tasks. In doing so it is pre-eminent to exploit potentials for economization resulting from the manifold interactions between product, operating material and organization of facilities and their peripherals as well as the consistent implementation of innovative technology and form of organization. The main focus is in computer-aided assembly planning and control, prototypic realization and experimental testing of assembly processes and systems, application of sensors for assembly processes as well as allocation of work and facility management.