**1. Introduction**

Over the past years, electro mobility has become an important topic in emission free transportation plans. In combination with renewable energies, it is even possible to keep vehicles carbon neutral. These advantages have triggered the interest in electric vehicles in recent years, but the technology has always been expensive. Significant factors leading to low user acceptance include the large and expensive batteries in short-range vehicles and slow charging solutions. Wireless power transfer (WPT) is focused on solving these current problems, such as the inconvenient plug-in charging process. Modern systems have already demonstrated the potentials of wireless energy transfer in cars [1,2]. However, there are currently no solutions for the industrial production of these components.

Within this paper the results of a feasibility study of contactless charging will be introduced, followed by the production processes for inductive power transfer (IPT) systems as well as automation concepts, which have been developed at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
