The implementation phase of TRENT, the Transnational Competence Center for Environmental Technology and Research Jiangsu Baden-Württemberg, is funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector of the State of Baden-Württemberg from November 2020 to April 2023. In addition to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the State Agency for Environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency Baden-Württemberg (UTBW), the office of Baden-Württemberg International in Nanjing (BW_i Nanjing) is also contributing to the competence center with its network in Jiangsu.

Shorter product life-cycles, diverse variety, increasing pace of innovations and increasing complexity in production technology place increased demands on the industry. Consequently, entrepreneurial decisions bear high risks, which in turn requires not only new forms of teamwork but also for the business network to be viewed as one whole production system. The core components processes, organizations and resources must permit a high development and innovation capability corresponding to the dynamic company demands. Therefore, the aim of the production systems department is the development of methods and tools for target orientated designing and optimization of quicker, more robust and more efficient production systems. New approaches will be developed according to individual industrial requirements starting from strategic business planning and organization right upto production control, and this being transformed into a company's success.