Steinbeis experts co-develop a training program for technical experts and managers
To successfully transform into a data-driven company, it is important to use data like any other business resource in keeping with actual needs and sustainability factors. Against this background, …
Month: June 2023
Enterprise Data Manager – Systematic, Efficient, and Future-Proof
The Ideal (Air) Flow
A family-owned business develops a test bed for optimizing fans with the support of Steinbeis experts
Since 1999, Hägele, a medium-sized enterprise based in Schorndorf east of Stuttgart, has been developing, producing and selling radiator cooling fans for “off-highway machines” …
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Medium-sized companies are a key element of the German economy. According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, they account for around 61% of total net value creation. This makes the German Mittelstand crucial for stability and …
EU4HEALTH: A Vision of a Healthier Europe
Team at Steinbeis Europa Zentrum provides support with submitting proposals and managing projects
EU4Health (EU4H), an EU program offering funding worth €5.3 billion between 2021 and 2027, is the largest health promotion program ever launched by the European Union. This …
A Clever Way to Monitor Welding Processes
Steinbeis experts and project partners develop a multi-module sensor system
An efficient process for joining metal parts, arc welding continues to play an important role in the manufacture of structural components and assembled parts. There are a number of reasons …
From Navigating Buildings to a New Museum App
An interview with Professor Dr.-Ing. Frank Deinzer, Steinbeis Entrepreneur at the Steinbeis Transfer Center for New Media and Data Science
Have you ever stood in an unfamiliar building with time running out before your next appointment, and you haven’t got …
“The issues with skilled workers are more of a threat to innovation than the lack of time”
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 …
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 …