An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald Augustin, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Process Management in Product Development, Production and Logistics
Professor Dr.-Ing. Harald Augustin talked to TRANSFER magazine about future changes in production and logistics as a result …
“Even in an era of digital technology, people will still be the cornerstone of success”
“It’s only a problem if you sleep through the transformation”
An interview with Horst Maywald, an expert who worked for Elabo for decades and Steinbeis partner
Horst Maywald talks to TRANSFER magazine about successful ways to achieve digital transformation in business. Maywald has first-hand experience of the process at Elabo …
Engineering and Design: Digital and Efficient
The IO maturity level model accompanies firms that engineer their own equipment on the road to digitalization
The IO model assesses maturity levels, acting as a strategic tool that allows companies to plan the road to digital transformation. As part …
Digital Solutions: A Curse, a Blessing, or Both?
What actually is digital transformation? And how is it affecting different areas of industry and technology?
Nothing is more perennial than change. Very few terms are heard in so many forms as “digital transformation” these days. It’s like a driver …
“Accept, Understand, and Shape”
An interview with Professor Dr. Dr. Helmut Schneider, director of the Steinbeis Transfer Institute for Digital Transformation and holder of the SVI foundation chair for marketing and dialog marketing at Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation
What changes need to …
Immediate Designer: Flexible, Efficient, Inexpensive
Digital transformation for SMEs – an insight into industry practice Digital solutions offer a wide array of opportunities to small and medium-sized companies, but unfortunately it is precisely these kinds of firms that fail to exploit the full potential of …
Ready with the Grab Bag?
Suddenly the boss was gone. Digital solutions help safeguard businesses.
One diagnosis is enough to change an entire lifetime, at home but also at work. The Steinbeis expert Elke Kirchner explains what bosses can do in such situations and outlines …
“SMEs face particular challenges with digital transformation”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Ben Marx and Professor Dr. Christian Cseh, directors of the Steinbeis Transfer Center Processes in Motion
If a company wants to go digital, it has no choice: It will have to implement IT projects. This …
Customer 4.0 – A Foundation for Safeguarding Companies in the Long Term
How to implement customer relationship management
According to a number of PIDAS studies, 70% of all companies in Germany lose 50% of their customers every five years. The reasons for this are insufficient mechanisms to manage customers, and sheer indifference. …
Cyber-Physical Systems – A Driver of Digital Transformation in European Business
Steinbeis experts and Hahn-Schickard help SMEs gain access to digital technology Cyber-physical systems (CPS) play an important strategic role in systematically digitalizing European companies. The first successful projects carried out by the European Commission, individual member states, and companies can …
Digital Transformation – Industry 4.0 – Additive Manufacturing
Efficient and flexible just-in-time production
These days the term Industry 4.0 is used excessively in all sectors of industry, from the automotive market to plant production and medicine. It is also thrown into conversation about additive manufactoring technology, or so-called …
Business Models in Internet-Based Value Creation Networks – A Capability Approch
The Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institute (FSTI) is developing an alternative model for creating digital business models
What are the key success factors when designing digital business models, and what can be done to support SMEs in this area? These are the issues being …
The 2017 Steinbeis Day: The Value Added by the Network
The emphasis at this year’s event lay in networks and consortium projects
As the Network continues to expand, communication and successful networking become the key challenges. Both issues were the focal topics discussed at this year’s Steinbeis Day. More than …
The 2017 Steinbeis Night: Time for the Network to Meet Up
Relaxed conversation and networking become important part of the relaunched evening event
Following the annual Steinbeis Day in the Steinbeis House, which focuses on the implementation of specialist knowledge, the evening event in the Liederhalle arts and convention center in …
Manual Production? Complex Automation!
Chemnitz-based Steinbeis researchers and Prym Consumer Europe GmbH receive the 2017 Transfer Award of the Steinbeis Foundation – Löhn Award
There is growing demand for solutions with a “hand made” label and although this trend continues unabated, it is by …
Using Energy to Optimize Wiegand Wires
Steinbeis experts at Pforzheim University and SEW-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG win the 2017 Transfer Award of the Steinbeis Foundation – Löhn Award
For many years, the Bruchsal-based company SEW Eurodrive has been looking closely at Wiegand sensors, which are …
Good vibrations
Steinbeis experts develop laser coating technique by using vibrations
It’s important for components subject to severe wear and tear to be given hard surfaces. This is something metallic materials usually don’t have, so to strengthen surfaces, weld overlaying is used …
MinWaterCSP: Reducing the Water Consumption in Concentrated Solar Power plants
Steinbeis 2i acts as partner in EU project
In Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants, collectors are bundling the sunlight on an absorber in order to generate electricity. CSP plants are often installed in arid areas where solar irradiation is high …
Smart Energy Storage for energy self-sufficiency on the Island of Borkum
The NETfficient EU project develops smart energy management and efficient energy storage solutions
NETfficient is an EU project launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing together project partners from seven European countries to work on the development and implementation …
Certified Interpreting Excellence for Medical Technology
TZM GmbH receives innovation award from the district of Göppingen
The challenge when networking medical devices is to ensure the various systems are compatible with one another and they all “speak the same language.” TZM, a member of the Steinbeis …
The Resilience Megatrend: Preparing Personal Skills for the Future
Steinbeis Transfer Institute Offers Training to Become Resilience Trainers
Increasing workloads and accelerating processes are leading to more and more people suffering occupational burnout and feeling stressed. The world has become more volatile, insecure, complex, and ambiguous. People (as well …
Talk – Before It’s Too Late
Steinbeis mediation experts work on EU project for resolving inheritance disputes out of court
An increasing number of EU citizens move to different countries and as a result there has been a rise in the number of cross-border inheritance cases. …
Fully in Touch With the Future
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 …
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 …