According to the current state-of-the-art, manufacturing of components made of metal-plastic-hybrid materials is done in discrete manufacturing steps using basic technologies. The goal to the German Federal Cluster of Excellence MERGE (Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures) is to combine different technologies such as plastics injection molding and metal die casting by merging them and gear them towards the requirements of large-scale-production as well as energy efficiency. Thereby, new key technologies and corresponding manufacturing systems are required.