SCHRAUBTEC
Call for Papers 2027: National – Submit your technical presentation
Call for Papers 2027 – Help Shape the SchraubTec Conference Program
How can bolted connections be made safer, more cost-effective, easier to automate, and more sustainable? What types of failures occur in industrial practice? Which solutions have proven effective?
For the SchraubTec Regional Trade Fairs 2027, we are looking for speakers who can present specific challenges, practical experience, and proven solutions from industrial applications.
From professionals for professionals
SchraubTec brings together fastening technology experts and users from the automotive industry, mechanical and plant engineering, metalworking, automation, and electronics.
In 2027, SchraubTec will take place in Stuttgart, the Sauerland region, Landshut, Detmold, Freiburg, Düsseldorf, and Chemnitz.
Each location will feature a specialist conference program addressing both the key challenges in fastening technology and the specific requirements of the respective industrial region.
We are looking for application-oriented technical presentations with a strong practical focus. Rather than showcasing individual products, presentations should focus on clearly defined challenges, solution approaches, and transferable insights.
Submit Your Practical Topic
A strong SchraubTec presentation addresses a specific question from industrial practice:
- What challenge arose in design, procurement, assembly, production, quality, or maintenance?
- In which industry and application did the issue occur?
- Which technical, organizational, or methodological solution was chosen?
- What results and insights were achieved?
- What can other users transfer to their own practical applications?
We particularly welcome practical case studies, best practices, technical comparisons, failure analyses, research findings, and presentations submitted jointly with industrial user companies.
We offer free of charge
- Position yourself as an expert
- Expand your professional network
- Gain visibility among a large number of highly qualified and interested visitors, including fastening engineers, technicians, specialists, practitioners, and professionals from a wide range of industries and relevant functional areas
- Build trust with existing and potential customers
- Create new business opportunities
- Strengthen your position in the market
We Are Looking for Technical Presentations on the Following Topics
1. Design and Engineering of Bolted Connections
- Calculation and design of highly loaded bolted connections
- Preload force, friction, settling, and relaxation
- Dynamic and alternating loads
- Lightweight design and hybrid construction methods
- Design-based prevention of typical failure modes
- Connection reliability with different materials
- Space-, weight-, and cost-optimized fastening solutions
- Standards, guidelines, and regulatory requirements
2. Assembly, Manufacturing and Process Reliability
- Selection and validation of suitable tightening strategies
- Process-reliable manual, semi-automated, and fully automated assembly
- Fastening application classification and risk assessment
- Selection, configuration, and monitoring of fastening tools
- Variations in coefficients of friction and their impact on preload force
- Capability studies and statistical process evaluation
- Prevention and detection of assembly errors
- Feeding, positioning, and handling technology
- Ergonomic design of manual assembly processes
- Flexible assembly lines and frequent product variant changes
3. Automation and Digitalization
- Robot-assisted fastening assembly
- Automation for small batch sizes and high product variety
- Sensors and integrated process monitoring
- Data-driven detection of failure patterns
- Use of process data to improve quality
- AI-supported analysis of fastening processes
- Digital parameterization and management of fastening systems
- Integration of fastening technology into MES, quality, and production systems
- Digital traceability from the fastener to the finished product
- Automated assembly of sensitive electrical and mechatronic components
4.Quality, Testing and Traceability
- Testing concepts for bolted connections and assembly processes
- Measurement and evaluation of torque, angle of rotation, and preload force
- Calibration and test equipment management
- Process capability and capability studies
- Complete documentation of safety- and function-critical connections
- Failure analysis and systematic root cause identification
- Destructive and non-destructive testing methods
- Quality requirements for fasteners and suppliers
- Auditing of fastening processes
- Handling of outliers, process deviations, and rework
5.Materials, Fasteners and Surface Treatments
- Selection of suitable materials and strength classes
- Manufacturing and quality of screws and fasteners
- Thread design and thread manufacturing
- Surfaces, coatings, and controlled friction characteristics
- Corrosion protection and corrosion mechanisms
- Hydrogen embrittlement and material damage
- Heat treatment and material properties
- Fatigue strength and fatigue behavior
- Connections exposed to high or fluctuating temperatures
- Failure modes in screws, threads, and connected components
6.Procurement, Maintenance and Lifecycle Management
- C-parts management and security of supply
- Supplier management and incoming goods inspection
- Standardization of fasteners
- Cost considerations across the entire product lifecycle
- Maintenance and inspection of bolted connections
- Safe repeated assembly
- Retrofitting existing assembly and fastening systems
- Disassembly and design for disassembly
- Reuse of fasteners
- Circular and sustainable fastening concepts
We Are Looking for Solutions for These Industrial Application
Automotive and vehicle industry
Particularly relevant are safety-critical screw connections, automated series assembly, lightweight construction, mixed construction methods, battery and housing assembly, traceability and robust processes for high production volumes.
Mechanical and plant engineering
Solutions are sought for diverse production, small and medium batch sizes, highly stressed connections, special machine construction, flexible automation, maintenance and the implementation of current safety and documentation requirements.
Metalworking industry
The focus is on materials, surfaces, fastener manufacturing, high-strength connections, corrosion, friction coefficients, fatigue, quality testing and the secure connection of cast, formed, welded and precision components.
Automation and electronics
We are seeking contributions on automated precision assembly, sensor technology, process data, flexible screw systems, feeding technology, electrical and mechatronic assemblies, and the integration of screw technology into digital production systems.
Location-Specific Focus Areas
Regional thematic profiles 2027
In addition to the overarching topics of screw technology, we place particular emphasis on specific areas at each location. A presentation can be submitted for multiple locations.
Stuttgart – February 24, 2027
Key areas: Automotive, mechanical engineering and automated series assembly
Contributions are particularly sought on safety-critical bolted connections, process capability, traceability, flexible assembly lines, lightweight construction, mixed connections and highly automated production processes.
Submission deadline: November 24, 2026
Sauerland (Olsberg) – 11. March 2027
Main areas of focus: Metal processing, materials and fasteners
Contributions on materials, heat treatment, coatings, corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, thread and fastener manufacturing, fatigue strength, testing methods and reusable connections are particularly sought.
Submission deadline: December 11, 2026
Landshut – 12 May 2027
Key areas: Automation, electronics and automotive
Contributions are particularly sought on the automated assembly of electrical and mechatronic assemblies, feeding technology, sensitive components, data-based fault detection, and battery, housing and precision assembly.
Submission deadline: February 12, 2027
Detmold – June 9, 2027
Main focus areas: Mechanical engineering and metal processing
Contributions are particularly sought on the topics of economical screw assembly for small batch sizes, frequent variant changes, partial automation, special machine construction, C-parts management, retrofit and maintenance.
Submission deadline: March 9, 2027
Freiburg – July 21, 2027
Key areas: Metal processing and intelligent automation
Contributions are particularly sought on adaptive screwing strategies, sensor technology, automated quality control, precision connections, coated components and the automation of diverse production.
Submission deadline: April 21, 2027
Düsseldorf – September 29, 2027
Key areas of focus: Mechanical engineering, metal processing and industrial life cycle
Contributions are particularly sought on highly stressed connections, standardization, supplier quality, economical assembly, maintenance, reassembly, digital documentation and design for disassembly.
Submission deadline: June 29, 2027
Chemnitz – November 4, 2027
Key areas: Metal processing, mechanical engineering and automotive
Contributions are particularly sought on high-strength and dynamically loaded connections, preload and friction, cast and formed components, surfaces, damage analysis and quality assurance in the supplier industry.
Submission deadline: August 4, 2027
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ABSTRACT
What should your submission include?
In addition to the overarching topics of screw technology, we place particular emphasis on specific areas at each location. A presentation can be submitted for multiple locations.
Please submit the following information via our online form:
- a meaningful presentation title
- a brief description of the specific initial situation
- the affected user industry and application
- the technical or economic problem to be solved
- the method used or the chosen solution path
- the most important results and insights
- three concrete learnings for the attendees
- the subject areas addressed and the technical level
- Use our guide for speakers to create your abstract.
We compile the program according to these criteria. In selecting the lectures, we pay particular attention to:
- Relevance for industrial users
- Timeliness and technical depth
- Concrete and comprehensible problem statement
- Practical relevance and transferability of results
- Quality and comprehensibility of the abstract
- Alignment with the respective location profile
- Balance of the overall technical program
- Product neutrality of the presentation
Products and solutions may be part of a practical example. However, the focus must be on the challenge, the approach, the results, and the benefits for the users.
Primary product presentations, company presentations and purely marketing lectures cannot be taken into account when creating the program.
FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS
The most important information at a glance
- Presentations will last 30 minutes, including a Q&A session.
- Presentations will be given in German.
- Selection is contingent upon the submitting company participating as an exhibitor at the desired location.
- Each exhibitor may give one presentation free of charge, subject to organizational guidelines.
- Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the conference program.
- Presentation slots will be allocated based on topic, relevance, location, availability, and the time of submission.
- Speakers agree to the terms and conditions for speakers and moderators of the Vogel Communications Group.
Your advantages
Why you should become a speaker
- As a speaker at SchraubTec, you will have the opportunity to:
- visibly position your professional expertise
- discuss concrete solutions with industrial users
- build new contacts in relevant target industries
- strengthen the trust of existing and potential customers
- develop new business opportunities and actively contribute to shaping the SchraubTec technical program
Contact
Do you have a question? Send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Robert Davis
Product Manager Event
49 931 418-2271
49 1515 4904 054
robert.davis@vogel.de
