Follow-up article: 2nd Conference "Innovations in Automotive Interiors" at the Mercedes-Benz Museum

Follow-up article: 2nd Conference "Innovations in Automotive Interiors" at the Mercedes-Benz Museum

On 12.09.2019, the second conference “Innovations in Automotive Interiors” took place within the framework of the ZIM cooperation network “FOresIght – Functional Integration and New Surfaces for the Automotive Interior of the Future” at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart with more than 80 participants from the automotive industry.

The aim of the conference was to present current technological developments, examples of solutions or also questions in automotive interiors from your company/ R&D facility within the framework of the conference. The focus will be on networking actors along the entire supply and value chain, technology transfer between research and industry, and discussion and exchange among the actors.

Future innovations need new qualities of trend implementation, intensive examination of future requirements, and the development of new, innovative production networks. The following technology areas are taken up by the FOresIght network and reflected with different groups of participants, in order to flow into FuE projects.

Topics of the conference:

Light and lighting elements in the vehicle interior
New HMI concepts e.g. sensor technology / communication in the vehicle interior
Functional surfaces in the vehicle interior
Hybrid material systems e.g. real material back injection in the vehicle interior
Smart textiles in vehicle interiors
(Socio-technological) trends in automotive interiors
New tool concepts and tool design
New interface technologies e.g. antibacterial surfaces
Other

Online directory of the participants:
https://foresight-automotive.com/anmeldung/ (tab directory of participants)

Program:

The agenda can be found here: 2nd Conference_Innovations in Automotive Interiors_12.09.2019

The speakers come from the following companies and R&D institutions:

– Daimler AG
– Danzer Holding AG
– Faurecia Interior Systems
– GENERATIONDESIGN Ltd.
– Hella Interior Lighting Systems GmbH
– Plastics Institute Lüdenscheid
– OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
– Ruhr University Bochum
– Samvardhana Motherson Reydel Companies (France)
– Sateco AG (Switzerland)
– Schott AG
– ZSK Stick Machines GmbH

Online directory of the participants:
https://foresight-automotive.com/anmeldung/ (tab directory of participants)

A further 10 companies/ R&D facilities presented themselves at the side exhibition:

– COPT ZENTRUM for organic electronics
– Danzer Germany GmbH
– HRSflow GmbH
– ITA of RWTH Aachen University
– KIMW GmbH
– Murtfeldt Plastics GmbH & Co. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
– OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
– TFI – Institute for Soil Systems at the RWTH Aachen e.V.
– Sateco AG
– SCHOTT AG

Due to the positive feedback there will also be a 3rd conference in 2020.