Profactor Produktionsforschungs GmbH specializes in the research and development of alternative power systems, process development for functional surfaces, and the production of micro and nanostructures.

It offers solutions like:

• Renewable energy systems
• Flexible production systems
• Functional structures
• Industrial image processing
• Intelligent software systems
• Mechatronic systems and components
• Medicinal robotics
• Micro and nano technologies
• Process design and automation
• Simulation and  optimization

Profactor conducts researches in the following fields:

• Biological methods of energy generation
• Functional structures
• Intelligent machines and components
• Complex and networked production systems 
• Cooperative and adaptive production technologies
• Smart and adaptive systems
• Machining technologies for new materials

PROFACTOR researches and develops at two facilities in Steyr and Seibersdorf, and it is a 100 % subsidiary of the Association for the Promotion of the Modernisation of Production Technologies in Austria (VPTO).