Project team develops a surface optimization method for use with pharmaceutical, food, and process technology
Surface finishes on stainless steel are significantly influenced by chemical and physical properties. Technical terms such as “hygienic design” are becoming increasingly important in sensitive …
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How Automating Processes Raises Productivity and Cuts Costs
Steinbeis student analyzes the automation level of a software release process
Improving the efficiency, speed, cost-effectiveness, and, above all, the quality of business and IT processes is increasingly becoming a key factor for future competitiveness. Automating tasks, individual steps within …
A Sensor Twin Enhances the Safety of Self-Driving Vehicles
Steinbeis experts develop optimized scenarios for creating robust phenomenological models
For the automotive industry, alongside electric vehicles, automated vehicles are one of the most important topics of the 21st century. To ensure the control units used in driver assistance systems …
Everyone Starts Small
From a controlled, scenario-based test model to a self-driving car
Whereas humans use their senses to recognize their surroundings, cars rely on their sensors. Future generations of vehicles will increasingly tap into artificial intelligence to interpret sensor data. This will …
Go-ahead for the SIAT Initiative
Steinbeis experts co-develop an innovation and staff training network
Innovation and training must go hand in hand – a key factor recognized by a consortium including the Institute for Effective Management, a Steinbeis Consulting Center. Together, the stakeholders want to …
Welded Together by a Diamond Wire
Steinbeis experts develop new welding device for diamond wires
To cut hard brittle materials such as silicon, hard metals, sapphires, or even composite materials like circuit boards, it is common to use diamond wire saws. The surfaces of the cutting …
What’s the Point? Discussing the Usefulness of Science
The Max Syrbe Symposium is streamed from the Heilbronn Education Campus
On November 3, 2021, a selection of “thinkers and doers” met up in the auditorium on Heilbronn Education Campus to take part in the Max Syrbe Symposium and explore …
Making Decisions and Leading People with the OODA Model
How to lead the company strategy and operations in a crisis situation or period of change
The current pandemic, the supply problems it has led to, rising energy costs, plus the shift toward sustainability place a variety of demands on …
The 2021 Steinbeis Engineering Day: The Role Played by AIoT in Practice
How artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) creates benefits for business
The internet of things has not only found its way into our living rooms, industry is also increasingly recognizing the potential offered by networking between companies. Suddenly, processes that for …
Löhn Award Goes to the Masterminds Behind the Climate-Neutral District in Esslingen
Steinbeis experts develop energy and sustainability concept
Dedication to sustainability that thoroughly deserves recognition – on October 6, 2021, Steinbeis presented the team at the Steinbeis Innovation Center energyplus and its project partners with the Steinbeis Foundation’s Transfer Award – …
Visions of Artificial Intelligence: Science Fiction or Just Around the Corner?
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Ertel outlines the potential scenarios of future AI singularity
A central theme of Origin, the novel by American author Dan Brown, is a form of artificial intelligence that kills its human inventor after weighing all the facts. …
“The biggest thing gender equality requires is a shift in our thinking”
An interview with Martina Schmidt, director of the Contact Point for Women and Careers in Ravensburg, Lake Constance/Upper Swabia
Equal treatment for men and women at the workplace – a goal that has still not been achieved in Germany. Like …
Those Who Want to Go Far, Go Together
Steinbeis experts support the LEONARDO Center for Creativity and Innovation with the planning and organization of knowledge transfer during the process of innovation
Our economic systems and society thrive on a continual supply of new ideas. The best ones lead …
Emission-Free, Carbon-Neutral, and Efficient: Solar District Heating Support Local Climate Protection
Steinbeis experts coordinate climate protection project to support the transition to environmentally friendly heating
Solar district heating combines two established and perfected forms of technology: solar thermal energy (“solarthermics”) and district heating. The general expansion of district heating and, in …
Success in Rotation
Steinbeis experts develop a plasma welding burner using a mechanical rotating light arc for bonding and weld overlaying
Welding has become an extremely important task, not just for joining traditional materials – such as steel or aluminum – but also …