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Welcome to MECS

Material Engineering Center Saarland – Your bridge between material research and material engineering.

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Examinations

We are at your side as experts in microscopy, surface analysis and material analysis.

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Welcome to the Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS)

Your bridge between material research and material engineering

The Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS), centrally located on the university campus, was founded in 2009 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Mücklich and his team as a Steinbeis research center from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Saarland University. The MECS is dedicated to a customized materials technology transfer in cooperation with regional, national and international companies.

Starting from compact feasibility studies for the rapid identification of the respective transfer potential, cooperation projects and also long-term strategic partnerships are developed. In addition, MECS offers various service measurements of material analysis and microstructure characterization.

The portfolio is completed by consultations on material development and digitalization including the use of machine learning. Customized training courses, failure analyses and expert reports are also part of the MECS offering.

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Services

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Service measurements

We offer you the possibility of characterizing components or materials and provide literature research and briefings on selected topics.

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Feasibility studies

From a first material sample of the component over final geometries up to the implementation at pilot plants, we can accompany the entire development with our feasibility studies.

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Projects

We are also happy to realize shorter development projects for you. The project manager that we provide you with takes care of your project.

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Strategic partnerships

As a strategic partner we can also support you concerning exceptional questions as well as exceptional innovation projects.

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Consulting

We are available to you as a competent materials partner for many issues – Whether cross-divisional internally or at the customer.

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Trainings

We also offer training courses on our topics. We can align our selected contents to your desired focus and set the necessary priorities for you.

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Examinations

Microscopy

We are able to precisely prepare, contrast and analyze materials. In addition to metallographic preparation options, we have light, laser scanning and scanning electron microscopes at our disposal.

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Surface analysis

In addition to the representation and analysis of surfaces, we also offer profile recordings to determine the layer system. We are not only at your side with the surface characterization, but can also change properties in a targeted manner.

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Material analysis

Thanks to our spark spectrometer, we can determine the chemical composition of materials down to the ppm range. Other investigation methods in our portfolio are, for example, microstructure analyzes using FIB-REM technology, X-ray diffraction analyzes or 3D tomography.

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