HyFab 2 provides companies in the automotive and mechanical and plant engineering industries with an open, flexible platform in which technologies for material and component qualification, processes for component and fuel cell stack production, accelerated test and quality shearing processes as well as concepts for training and further training of specialists can be researched, developed and tested. Handling, processing and quality assurance processes are based on series of 200.000 fuel cell stacks per year. The open HyFab 2 platform enables the cross-industry research and development of relevant quality criteria, quality assurance methods and the selection of suitable manufacturing and assembly processes. Access to analytical methods and testing equipment also enables innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to comprehensively characterise their products and processes.