Scientific associations

• AGU (Working Group for Forming Technology)
• CIRP (International Research Association for Production Technology)
• I²FG (International Impulse Forming Group)
• WGP (Scientific Society for Production Engineering)

Associations and interest groups

• IBU (Industrial Association for Sheet Metal Forming)
• IMU (Industrieverband Massivumformung e.V.)
• VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association)

Research funding

• AIF (German Federation of Industrial Research Associations)
• BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
• DFG (German Research Foundation (DFG))
• EFB (European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working)
• EU Research Framework Programme of the BMBF
• FOSTA (Research Association for Steel Application)

Co-operation partners

• IUL (Institute for Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction), Dortmund
• Poynting GmbH, Dortmund

Patents

• German Patent and Trade Mark OfficePatent information
• SAFE - The patent programmeSupportfor patent applications
• esp@cenetEuropeanPatent Office

Catalogues

• Online forming technology catalogue of the IFUM

Journals

• BAENDER, BLECHE, ROHREPublisher: Vogel (Würzburg)
  Access: freely available
  Comment: Selected articles! Access via the "News" section
  Print edition: P 50/91 b 6
• BLECH InFormISSN: 1616-3362
  Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
• Sheet metal, tubes, profilesPublisher: Meisenbach Verlag
• Journal of materials processing technologyPublisher: ELSEVIER
• MASCHINENMARKTPublisher: Vogel (Würzburg)
  Access: freely available
  Comment: Registration is not required
  Print edition: P 50/85 m 1
• steel researchPublisher: Verlag Stahleisen GmbH
• UTF-SciencePublisher: Meisenbach Verlag
• VEREIN DEUTSCHER INGENIEURE / VDI-NACHRICHTENPublisher: VDI (Düsseldorf)
  Access: freely available
  Comment: selected articles
  Print edition: P 50/80 v 25
• Werkstattstechnik onlinePublisher: Springer-VDI-Verlag
• ZWF ? Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen FabrikbetriebPublisher: Carl Hanser Verlag

Miscellaneous

• Free encyclopaedia Wikipedia
• Leo Dictionary
• Dict. Chemnitz