The DFTA Flexographic Printing Technology Center makes promising advancements in flexo printing processes
Flexography (also known simply as flexo) is a high-pressure printing process involving flexible relief plates. Only the protruding areas of the plate come into contact with screen …
Fully in Touch With the Future
Maintaining the Focus on Maximum Quality at a Minimal Cost
Steinbeis Junior Employee Project aimed at developing competitive multicamera systems
Optical measurement systems used in industry are subject to a variety of requirements. As the image resolutions of industrial cameras improve, the size of chips is increasing, and this in …
The Journey to New Key Enabling Technologies
The SEZ is working as a partner on two EU projects: NUCLEI and KETGATE
Novel kinds of key technologies in the fields of ICT, production, photonics, modern materials, microtechnology, and nanotechnology are important drivers of innovation. Exploiting these new technologies …
Welded Seams – Small Is Beautiful
Steinbeis experts enhance developments in laser beam microjoining used in medical technology
Demand for laser welding in the manufacture of medical components continues to rise. These are components in sometimes highly complex shapes and sizes, sometimes also with seam contours …
Accurate Assembly
Steinbeis experts develop multiple assembly system for electric coils
Arnold Elektronik GmbH, which specializes in inductive components and is based in Lichtenau in Saxony, enjoys a long history. Founded nearly a century ago, it has continually moved forward as a …
Getting to the Heart of Digital Maturity
Steinbeis and Pforzheim University analyze the digital maturity of SMEs
The role of manufacturing firms is shifting fundamentally. Until now, everything has revolved around the development, production, and selling of high-quality tangible goods. In the future, customers are going to …
Book or E-Book – Anyone Fancy a Digital Solution?
Steinbeis-Edition reader survey takes a closer look at the latest trend
Technical advancement resulting from digital solutions is turning the publishing market on its head and confronting industry with some fundamental questions regarding the future focus of product portfolios. E-books …
IndInnovation – Innovation Management for Indian SMEs
Steinbeis experts and CEFE promote the interests of innovation initiatives for SMEs in India
India is a fascinating country on a number of levels, due to its amazing culture, the strongly growing economy, and the entrepreneurial spirit of its people. …
Turning the Spotlight on the Feasibility of Autonomous Production Processes
Steinbeis convention in Karlsruhe examines the challenges of digital transformation in SME production processes
Autonomous production and digital factories – key issues revolving around Industry 4.0 that caused pearls of sweat to run down people’s foreheads in the early years …
Award for Innovation and Quality
Call for entries to the 2018 Baden-Wuerttemberg Competence Award for Innovation and Quality
For industry in Baden-Wuerttemberg to develop competitive skills of a global standard, two factors are important: a particular ability to innovate among business enterprises and high quality …
Dear Readers,
Society is subject to change and so is the world of work, driven by the increasing level of interconnectivity between processes, machine tools, and the content of production itself. This may facilitate lateral thinking and lateral vision, but only when …
Feature Topic: Lateral Thinkers
You can’t pigeon-hole them and they make many feel uncomfortable. Lateral thinkers often have a really difficult time in the world of work – where people think rationally and in straight lines. Yet their potential can be invaluable to companies. …
Full Steam Ahead or Time to Heave To? Uncertain Times for SMEs
The need to think laterally in order to bring about change
A situation we’re probably all familiar with: A new project gets under way. At first, everything seems to be going fine and things are running smoothly. But sooner or …
Space for Lateral Thinkers
An appeal for more openness and agility
Nothing stays the way it is. That’s the impression more and more established companies are getting, given trends such as digital transformation, globalization, and climate change. In a working world of increasing complexity, …
You Can Only Reap What You Sow
The thought processes of a lateral thinker
If Jürgen R. Schmid didn’t always wear white shirts, he would have Individuality emblazoned in red letters on his chest. Sometimes it really isn’t easy being a gentle rebel. A rebel who strives …
“You need a lot of perseverance and creativity, but also unconventional thinking to track down the fundamental laws of nature”
An interview with Dr. Andreas Crivellin, theoretical physicist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen (Switzerland)
What are the typical questions theoretical particle physicists look at? What are their tools of the trade and how important are creativity and …
Translating Data into Knowledge
Lateral thinking on an interdisciplinary level can be helpful in managing floods of data
Terms such as Industry 4.0 (smart production) and big data are bandied around everywhere these days. Businesses are connecting up their production facilities, capturing data at …
The Myth about Lateral Thinkers: A Know-It-All or Real-Knower?!
Lateral thinking as a prerequisite for innovation
Magazines and blogs are good at proclaiming things like “The world needs more lateral thinkers.” But is there a generally accepted definition of what a lateral thinker actually is, or does, or the …
Heterogeneity: A Driver of Innovation
Equal opportunities in the energy technology sector
When women are closely involved in technical innovation processes, does this have any influence on the results and market success? This was the question looked at by the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) during a project …
“You teach people, not subjects”
An interview with Professor Dr. Bernd Jörs, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Online Marketing Engineering & Business Analytics and a professor in information economy and online marketing engineering at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
Do university lecturers have …
From Four to One
Add creativity to the unconventional and the result is success
A recent Steinbeis project has shown the best way to manage technology transfer in business and how to make a success out of projects through systematic cooperation. For the project, …
Innovating Differently – New Angles on Technology Transfer
A look back at a kick-off Steinbeis event at the State Gallery in Stuttgart
With its high columns, the room chosen at the State Gallery in Stuttgart could not have been a better setting for the first staging of the …
The Steinbeis Perspective Program: A Win-Win Situation for Participants and Companies
The Steinbeis University program provides support with the integration of refugees in the German employment market
Marwan Shaaban is 26. In the summer of 2015 he fled his home in Syria and came to Germany. Now, two years later, the …
Quo Vadis Baden-Wuerttemberg?
Former economics minister Ernst Pfister gives a speech at Business School Alb-Schwarzwald on the future of Baden- Wuerttemberg
Ernst Pfister is practically “part of the furniture” in state politics in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Originally from Trossingen, Pfister was a long-standing member of …
Management and Technology Update for Technicians and Engineers
SHB certification course on current best practice know-how in business administration and engineering
Technical experts are keen to keep moving forward, have their say, and be part of business decision-making. To do this, it is essential to have a solid …
ICE/IEEE TEMS International Technology Management Conference 2018
Expert conference to take place for first time in Baden-Wuerttemberg
A successful outcome for bwcon GmbH, Steinbeis, and the IST Innovation Institute (Constance University of Applied Sciences), who together applied to stage the 2018 ICE/IEEE TEMS International Technology Management Conference: …
Standing Strong
Steinbeis experts develop cement-free casting compound for industrial floors subject to strong wear and tear
Portland cement has been the most important binding agent mixed into concrete in the construction industry for over 100 years. Over two billion tons of …
A Successful Round of Research with the ZIM
Steinbeis experts present their successful ZIM projects at the SME Innovation Day
As in the past, the SME Innovation Day pulled in the crowds again this year. A good 1,800 visitors descended on Berlin to take a look at over …
Like Father, Like Son?
Steinbeis experts examine the role of transgenerational transfer in relationship patterns
As the experts at the Hamburg-based Steinbeis Consulting Center for Transgenerational Transfer will tell you, psychology, economic science, and technology are closely interwoven. To meet current challenges faced in …
It’s Good Working Here
Steinbeis experts use analysis tool to gauge the attractiveness of workplaces
Difficulties finding new people, skills shortages, a lack of loyalty to the company among specialists: just some of the problems currently facing employers. The future of innovative companies and …
Innovative Compression Technology for Efficient Hydrogen Vehicles
Steinbeis experts join EU COSMHYC project
Aside from battery-driven electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles are an important building block of climate protection, especially if the hydrogen that is required can be produced with a zero carbon footprint. Current compression technology based …
An Innovative Business Model for Intelligent Traffic Systems
Steinbeis assesses obstacles and enablers of new systems as part of EU NEWBITS project
Less highway traffic, improved transportation on the roads, along waterways, and in the air – all made possible by intelligent transportation systems, a key technology in …
Tackling Oxygen Deficiency in the Eye
Steinbeis experts develop technology for treating eye condition
The eye has the highest metabolic rate of all organs and thus places the highest oxygen demands on the body. It also has the highest blood circulation rate of all organs, which …