An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Ritz, entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Usability and Innovative Interactive Systems for Information Logistics
Innovation at SMEs: Theoretically, the millions of small companies in Germany should be predestined to come up with …
“The issues with skilled workers are more of a threat to innovation than the lack of time”
A Nice Place to Take a Seat
Steinbeis experts develop fair-faced concrete street furniture with added functionality
FiberCrete, the Chemnitz-based Steinbeis Innovation Center, develops, tests, and finalizes new fiber- and textile-reinforced building materials, composites, and technologies for production. As part of a joint project, the experts from …
Recruitment 4.0 – Digital, Fast, and Inexpensive
Steinbeis experts share new ways to recruit staff
The digitalization of recruitment processes is still in its infancy in many companies. While applicants now expect a digital, highly efficient application experience, it is still not uncommon to find employment ads …
Technological know-how for non-technicians
Steinbeis training provides a grounding in technical knowledge
It’s a problem many industrial enterprises are familiar with: Technical experts and engineers try to explain a complex innovation or a manufacturing process to people in commercial areas, or co-workers working in …
The Technology Radar – Compass for Systematic Technology Management
Steinbeis expert Professor Dr. Helmut Beckmann supports SMEs with the process of digital transformation
Digital transformation in companies is a central driver of advancement and even drives the upheaval strategies, processes, business methods, and technological progress. However, more than half …
Hand Over the Doh
Steinbeis experts use automation technology to pick and pack modeling clay
Lots of kids get excited about Play-Doh and other modeling compounds. It’s a great way to allow young ones to play and explore their creativity, develop spatial thinking, and …
Intelligent Systems for Modeling Real Processes
Industrial mathematics specialist TOPAS develops the digital technologies of the future for medium-sized enterprises
Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly important to companies, and this applies just as much to large corporations as it does to SMEs. But at the same …
A Helping Hand for SMEs: EU Innovation Funding Programmes
Steinbeis experts provide help on finding the right funding
You need many things to translate a novel concept into an innovation – not least secured funding. This can be a major challenge for SMEs. The solution lies in Horizon Europe, …
Bread and Data – Regional Value Creation Meets Digitalization
Steinbeis experts create inter-company cooperative data rooms for enhanced transparency at all stages of the supply chain
Bread, the kind of regional food item that can be traced step by step – from the grain to the loaf – using …
“There’s a shift on the horizon toward a different, collaborative way of working”
An interview with Professor Dr. Sebastian Feldmann on automation, AI, and future collaboration between humans and machines
Despite the rapid pace of development, we probably only have a vague appreciation at the moment of the potential offered by systems based …
“It’s not the material that’s the problem, it’s how we deal with the end product.”
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Sven Friedrich, who is responsible for the Steinbeis Innovation Center for Engineering and Technology
Compostable plastics sound almost too good to be true. But will they really do away with that guilty feeling you have …
“A general uncoupling of economic thinking and business management”
An interview with Steinbeis Entrepreneur Professor Dr.-Ing. Herbert Emmerich
Reconciling production and organizational demands – while still maintaining a strategic view of the future, despite day-to-day priorities – sounds like an oversimplification of what is a highly complex challenge for …
It Should be Tested? Sure. But with Sustainability in Mind, Please!
Steinbeis experts and H+B Hightech develop a sustainable testing rig for bicycle gear hubs
H+B Hightech is a specialist in high-precision engine components used in combustion engines. To open up new fields of business, in 2020 managing director Hilmar Wanner …
The Product Development Process and Applied Standards
The challenges faced by medium-sized enterprises in the automotive industry
If you run an automotive business and want to supply technology services to customers in the automotive industry, one prerequisite will be certification under DIN standard EN ISO 9001. This …
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Przybylski
Steinbeis mourns the death of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Przybylski, who passed away unexpectedly on February 27. Since 2003, Michael Przybylski had worked as a highly successful Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center Biopolymer Analysis and Biomedical Mass …
“Traditional engineering disciplines will continue to play an important role”
An interview with the Ulm-based Steinbeis expert Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schmitz
Far-reaching changes in the world around us necessitate a transformation of the automotive industry, not least among suppliers. TRANSFER magazine spoke to Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schmitz, Steinbeis Entrepreneur and …
“No reason to look down on conventional printing processes!”
An interview with Professor Dr. Martin Dreher, Managing Director of the DFTA Technology Center for Flexographic Printing in Stuttgart and lecturer at Stuttgart Media University
Even in times of more conscious resource use, it’s impossible to imagine everyday life without …
The Evolution of the TIMTester
Steinbeis experts develop measuring device for assessing the thermal conductivity of printed circuit boards
To a large extent, the service life of mechatronic systems is dictated by thermal loads. Whether it be power electronics, LEDs, or vehicle batteries, systems only …
Three Communities, One Partner, One Project: EGON
Three counties join forces with Steinbeis to promote economic development together
You may be wondering who or what EGON is. Allow us to explain the name: EGON is a German acronym for a business start-up initiative in the counties along …
Making Innovative Use of Renewable Materials
Steinbeis experts provide help with two ZIM projects looking at bamboo
Given what’s said about the damage caused to the environment by carbon emissions, just like industry, researchers are interested in reducing carbon footprints. Guidelines laid down by the government …
“Companies should expect to fall victim to a serious cyber attack at some point, even if they do take adequate precautions against IT threats.”
An interview with Jana Eiser-Mauthner and Dominik Helble of the Cyber Alliance project group, which was formed by Allianz Industrie 4.0 Baden-Württemberg.
84% of roughly 1,000 companies surveyed by industry association Bitkom said they were victims of data theft, espionage, …
Cohorts of Technical Experts Undergo Training
30 years of technical training in Saxony
Technicians hoping to undergo training in plumbing, heating, and air conditioning systems have not had to look far in Saxony in recent years. Since 1993, the Steinbeis Foundation’s Technical College in Glauchau, Saxony, …
Ship Ahoy – More Safety, More Transparency!
Platform operator of maritime position data turns to Steinbeis experts for support
Developed by JAKOTA Cruise Systems, FleetMon helps reduce the carbon emissions of maritime vessels, also making them safer to sail in. For the past five years, Technology Management …
Managing risk – Shaping the future
The history of humankind shows that PROGRESS is not possible without RISK – as we are witnessing in current technological, political, and social DEVELOPMENTS. The greater the POTENTIAL RISK, the more important it becomes to know how to cope with …
Rethinking the World of Work – HR Expert Embarks on a Journey to Set Up Her Own HR Consulting Firm
Steinbeis Consultant provides support with journey into self-employment
What can be done to counteract the increasing shortage of skilled workers? And what can companies to do retain their most important assets – employees? In the highly competitive labor market, startups …
Daring to Take Risks!
Minimizing the risk of innovation projects with EU funding
If people were not sometimes willing to take risks, there would be no innovations, no advancement or form of progress – and no chance to change the future for the better. …
“If you enjoy doing something it’s never a burden”
Successful succession in the making – an interview with Professor Edmund Haupenthal, Ursula Schulz, and Hans-Jörg Bley
The fact that the name says it all is probably not too much to say about the Steinbeis Transfer Centre TOP: For 30 …
Dear Readers,
Until recently, we considered the very concept of a global pandemic or war in Europe as scenarios that were perhaps conceivable in principle, but overall utterly unrealistic – especially at the same time. Now both are a reality and they …
Building Trust as a Means of Avoiding a Crisis
Steinbeis Consultant Holger Hagenlocher explains how companies can prepare themselves better for times of crisis
Every entrepreneurial undertaking is fraught with risk. Even during the startup stage, new companies have to accept the possibility that their products and services may …
NetLog: Steinbeis NetworkDialog
Premiere of the new Steinbeis discussion forum
Also on Steinbeis Day, all Steinbeis entrepreneurs were invited to the first Steinbeis NetworkDialog, or NetLog for short. This new forum, which will be held annually in the future, focuses on dialog between …
The 2022 Steinbeis Network Event
Review and Impressions
Rather than raising the curtain, it was a case of finally opening doors again on September 30, and a large number of Steinbeis entrepreneurs responded to the invitation and came to the Steinbeis campus in Stuttgart. For …
Avoiding Pains and Achieving Gains
A Steinbeis method that identifies risks and avoids a crisis
A crisis is a risk that actually happens. That may be a risk the company consciously enters into, or a risk it is not aware of. Risks can be posed …
Sufficiency or Efficiency – The Answer Lies In Between
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefan Tenbohlen, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for High-Voltage Technology and Energy Transmission
Energy is an essential part of modern life. Having worked in the field of power and energy supply for nearly …