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Programme Overview 

Day 1, November 20th 2025

09:00 - 10:00

Registration

Opening Session
Session Chair: Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)
10:00 - 10:20

Room 1: Welcome
Fritz Lücking, TEMA Technologie Marketing AG | Consultant (Germany)

10:20 -11:00

Room 1: From Impossible to Indispensable: The Evolution of Surface Inspection in Flat Metal Production
Dominik Recker, ISRA PARSYTEC GmbH | Manager Business Unit Metals (Germany)

11:00 - 11:20

Room 1: Beyond the Hype about AI in Steel Industry - A Survey of Real Success Stories
Carsten Andreas Klein, SMS group GmbH | Head of Integrated Planning, Process and Product Optimization (Germany)

11:20 - 12:00

Coffee Break

Session 1 / AI in Quality Management
Room 1
Session 2 / Trends in Surface Inspection - Part I
Room 2
12:00 - 12:30

Room 1: Beyond Accuracy: Augmenting Human-AI Collaboration in Quality Control
Antonia Weirich, Ruhr-University Bochum | Research Assistant (Germany)

Room 2: High-Speed Computational Imaging for Continuous Surface Inspection
Michael Stelzl, MSTVision GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

12:30 - 13:00

Room 1: A Modular Edge AI Framework for Industrial Visual Quality Inspection Systems
Nikolaos Matskanis, CETIC ASBL | Senior Project Manager (Belgium)

Room 2: Innovative optical measurement technologies from the lab to industrial inline-application
Andreas Hofmann, Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM | Business Development Manager (Germany)

13:00- 13:30

Room 1: AI-Based Automatic Detection and Classification of Defects Using Multi-Source Images
Silvano Balemi, Zumbach Electronic AG | CTO (Switzerland)

Room 2: Inline Slab Surface Inspection System at ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt Reliably Detects And Classifies Surface Defects Directly After Deburring
Giovanni Campa, Smart Steel Technologies GmbH | Machine Learning Expert (Germany)

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30

Room 1: Vendor Workshops
AMETEK Surface Vision - Going beyond hardware limitations
CLECIM Workshop
ISRA VISION Workshop

15:30 - 15:50

Coffee Break

Session 3 / 100th AMAP Kolloquium - Aluminium Special
Session Chair: Uwe Knaak, AMAP GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)
Room 1
15:50 - 16:00

Room 1: Introduction
Uwe Knaak, AMAP GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

16:00 - 16:30

Room 1: Implementation of an SIS into an aluminium ingot scalper
Stefan Lukaschewski, Aluminium Norf GmbH | Process Engineer (Germany)

16:30 - 17:00

Room 1: Improving Surface Quality in Aluminum Production with Video-Based Inspection – Two Case Studies
Volker Kölmel, AMETEK Surface Inspection | Global Marketing Manager (Germany)

17:00 - 17:30

Room 1: From Manual to Machine: Improving Surface Quality Control in Aluminium Extrusion
Dominik Recker, ISRA PARSYTEC GmbH | Manager Business Unit Metals (Germany)

17:30 - 18:00

Room 1: Long-term experience with surface inspection in surface-sensitive aluminum products
Kai Olav Runkel, Speira GmbH | Head of Central Service QA (Germany)

from 18:00
Evening-Event in the Exhibition Area

Day 2, November 21st 2025

09:00 - 09:30

Room 1: Closing the Loop: Surface Inspection-Driven Optimization in Battery Cell Manufacturing
Rui Yan Li, RWTH Aachen University | Research Associate (Germany)

Session 4 / Digital Transformation
Room 1
Session 5 / Long Products
Room 2
09:30 - 10:00

Room 1: Transforming Surface Inspection: A New Paradigm in Coil Map Analysis
Alfredo Davila Villalobos, QuinLogic GmbH | Technical Sales (Germany)

Room 2: Next level 3D inspection of long and flat steel products: Pushing the limits with WARP, NBASE-T and high-power lasers
Athinodoros Klipfel, AT Sensors | Head of Sales (Germany)

10:00 - 10:30

Room 1: Correlated Visualization of Process and Quality Data by Advanced Genealogy and Time-to-Length Transformation
Michael Raus, QuinLogic GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

Room 2: Making Space for Quality: Integrated Inspection in Tight Mill Environments
Thomas Köpsel, IMS Messsysteme GmbH | Sales Manager (Germany)

10:30 - 11:00

Room 1: ACRA - Auto Coil Release Assistant
Eva Kesisoglou, D-Cube Private Company | Chief AI Officer (Greece)

Room 2: Optical Surface Inspection for Long and Profiled Metal Products: Applications and Process Enhancement
Jürgen Philipps, Pixargus GmbH | Managing Director (Germany)

11:00 - 11:30

Room 1: Looking Ahead: Smarter Inspection Systems for Higher Quality Standards
Dominik Recker, ISRA PARSYTEC GmbH | Product Manager (Germany)

Room 2: Inspection of Rail Wheels with Ultrasound Machines - Trends in AI Assist, new Sensor Technology, and Robotics
Frank Kahmann, Baker Hughes Digital Solutions GmbH | Senior Product Manager and Principal Engineer (Germany)

11:30 - 12:00

Room 1: Beyond the Human Eye: How AI-Driven Vision Systems Redefine Surface Quality Inspection in Metal Processing
Sam Holdenried, AI.SEE GmbH | Account Executive (Germany)

Room 2: Rolling Contact Fatigue
Johannes Waechter, RWTH Aachen University | Research fellow (Germany)

12:00 - 12:30

Coffee Break

12:30 - 13:00
Panel Discussion: AI
Ingo Elsen, University of Applied Science Aachen | Big Data Lab
Room 1
13:30 - 14:30

Lunch Break

Session 6 / Trends in Surface Inspection - Part II
Room 1
Session 7 / User Cases
Room 2
14:30 - 15:00

Room 1: 100% Surface and Coating Inspection with Hyperspectral Imaging
Gerhard Stanzel, Specim, Spectral Imaging Oy Ltd | Application Specialist (Germany)

Room 2: Optical, material independent strip thickness measurement in process and finishing lines
Erik Zimmermann, KELK (VPG) | Research & Development Manager (Germany)

15:00 - 15:30

Room 1: The Fairy Tale of Automated Defect Detection and Classification from the First Day on: A bold and long lasting wish that even the fairies from the sales departments could not make to come true
Florian Jaworeck, Johannes Höhne, Dr. Schenk GmbH | Product Manager (Germany)

Room 2: tba
AMETEK Surface Vision

15:30 - 16:00

Room 1: With ASIS data towards zero-defect manufacturing
Jens Brandenburger, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut | Senior Expert (Germany)

Room 2: tba
AMETEK Surface Vision

16:00 - 16:30

Room 1: Can a SWIR channel help for a reliable and dedicated recognition of (residues of) water?
Michael Krätzner, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH | Senior Specialist Surface Inspection Systems (Germany)

Room 2: tba
Dr. Schenk GmbH