Pragmatic Process Chain Evaluation for Automotive Lightweight Applications

The early economic and ecological evaluation of inventive lightweight manufacturing technologies is characterized by a contradictory problem: On the one hand, manufacturers need to evaluate those lab-scale technologies as precise as possible. On the other hand, this earliness complicates evaluations as information might be uncertain. The result of this thesis is a pragmatic and model-based evaluation approach, which is capable of assessing lab-scale technologies with pre-defined significance.