Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering

For over 35 years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in Stuttgart has been a highly regarded provider of services in the fields of company and work structures and organization, technology management, and information and communication technology. The institute helps companies to recognize the potential of innovative organizational forms and future-oriented information and communication technologies, to adapt them to meet the companies’ specific needs, and to implement them systematically. Thanks to its close cooperation with the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management IAT at the University of Stuttgart, Fraunhofer IAO is able to combine university-level basic research, application-oriented science, and business practice. At Fraunhofer IAO a total of 600 employees – primarily engineers, computer scientists, economists, and social scientists – work in interdisciplinary teams.