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FOresIght exhibitor at the 3rd industry meeting in Lüdenscheid

ZENIT — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:41:24 +0000

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The Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid is organising the 3rd Lüdenscheid industry meeting on 6 February 2020. In addition to a lecture event with renowned speakers and 25 live presentations on machines and testing equipment, 145 members of the cluster will present themselves as exhibitors. The proven mixture of exhibition, lectures, presentations and demonstrations will guarantee that no plastic technology question will remain unanswered on this day. Exhibitors will be able to show their latest services and products in two large tent areas. With over 1,000 interested visitors, the first two events of this kind laid the foundation for a successful industry meeting in 2020, where innovations for the plastics industry will be presented and created.

Photo: KIMW

Save the Date – 3rd Conference “Innovations in the Automotive Interior” 2020

ZENIT — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:57:40 +0000

We kindly invite you to the:

3rd Conference

“Innovations in the Automotive Interior”

When?

Thursday, 22.10.2020, approx. 9 am – 4:30 pm

Where?

Mercedes-Benz Museum
Mercedesstraße 100, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany

Please note the date.

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

Topics of the conference:

Light and lighting elements in the automotive 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

Further information will follow in 2020.

We also offer you the opportunity to present your company at the trade conference in the side exhibition. Present your products and services to our trade audience. Please contact Ms. Classen, lc@zenit.de, with any questions you may have.

Background:

The ZIM cooperation network “FOresIght – functional integration and new surfaces for the automotive interior of the future” is successfully started in Phase 2 with a running time of further three years with 36 partners of the automobile industry, of it seven small and medium-size enterprises (SME), eleven universities and research mechanisms, ten associated partners as well as eight international SME along the entire creation of value chains (OEM, animal 1-3).

The aim of the network is to develop innovations for the automotive interior of the future in the technology areas of surfaces, functional surfaces, real material back-injection (e.g. of wood, glass, stone, metal), (printed) electronics, lighting (LEDs, OLEDs, EEL), textiles, sensor technology, design, digitisation,

If you have any questions, please contact Linda Classen, lc@zenit.de.

35 years of SME consulting in NRW. Video review of the ZENIT anniversary

ZENIT — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:31:05 +0000

There was a reason why to celebrate at ZENIT on September 11, but the celebration of the company’s 35th anniversary did not only focus on the wide range of services relating to innovation, internationalization, technology and subsidy consulting. Instead, the Innovation and Internationalization Agency of the State of NRW used the occasion to network with around 150 guests from business, science and politics in a relaxed atmosphere. The keynote speaker was Christoph Dammermann, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitisation and Energy of the State of NRW.

The link to the Youtube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg0dJaPBJ4qL7HPIPMLQyVQ

ZENIT announces Innovation Award

ZENIT — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:44:20 +0000

“Cooperation projects for digital topics of the future” is the competition theme of this year’s innovation prize, which the ZENIT e.V. network presented as part of the ZENIT anniversary on 11 September. The aim is to find technologically oriented cooperation projects between companies and start-ups (not older than five years) or between companies, start-ups and universities/research institutions on digital topics of the future.
The cooperation projects must have already begun at the time of application, but must not have been completed. The central evaluation criterion is the innovative character of the submitted projects, whether with regard to the joint development of digital technologies, products, processes and/or services or the development of new, digital business models. In addition, the jury also evaluates the degree of agility of the project cooperation between the cooperation partners. A partner must be based in NRW. For the fifth time, the patron is NRW Minister of Economics and Innovation Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros, the closing date for applications is 15 December.

Thomas Eulenstein, Chairman of the Board of the ZENIT e.V. network, is pleased about the ninth round of the competition: “For almost 20 years, the prize has helped to strengthen North Rhine-Westphalian SMEs in various fields of innovation. Moreover, with this instrument we offer companies and cooperation partners from science a really attractive platform to present themselves as innovative players to a broad public. In addition to the prize money for the winner, all finalists receive professional PR support with lasting publicity and a free one-year membership in the ZENIT e. V. network.

Background network ZENIT registered association:
The 1984 created network ZENIT registered association is a forum of entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It developed from the commitment of medium-size participants and represents approximately 190 predominantly technology-oriented enterprises. The aim is to accompany them and make them fit for the diverse requirements of the constantly changing markets.

The association is also internationally networked with members from the Netherlands, France and Russia and consistently expands the cross-border networking and thus the sustainability of its members.

Further information is available at www.zenit.de/netzwerk/innovationspreis2019

Contact:
Network ZENIT e.V.
Simone Stangier
Phone: 0208 30004-75
E-mail: sr@zenit.de
Internet: www.zenit.de/netzwerk/
Twitter: @ZENITGmbH

FOresIght exhibitor at the conference “Innovative surfaces”

ZENIT — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 11:24:45 +0000

Also in this year FOresIght was represented on the conference “Innovative surfaces” of the plastic institute in Lüdenscheid (K.I.M.W.) on the 18th/19th of September.
We are pleased that three network partners got the chance to present their ideas as speaker. On behalf of all network partners we would like to thank the KIMW for this opportunity.

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

ZENIT — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:06:02 +0000

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.

2nd internal network meeting of phase 2

ZENIT — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:30:42 +0000

The 2nd internal network meeting of phase 2 took place at Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on 11.09.2019. Around 30 participants discussed future R&D projects and were allowed to take part in a guided tour of the museum.
The next network meeting will take place in Janaur 2020. It is possible to join the network at any time.

Hanover Fair 2019: FOresIght at the EUROPEAN INNOVATORS Lounge

ZENIT — Mon, 06 May 2019 10:06:21 +0000

The tech transfer forum makes successful innovation management vivid and tangible. As a competence and dialogue platform, tech transfer creates space and opportunity to find partners for your own projects and to think about joint steps. The demanding, all-day forum programme also provides important impetus for successful technology transfer.

Among other events, the international FOresIght network was able to present itself as a success story at the European Innovators Lounge at HANNOVERMESSE on April 4, 2019 and could speak about the challenges and goals of the network. With currently 39 network partners, the FOresIght network has grown steadily and now includes seven international network partners from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Great Britain.

Click here for the presentation:

ZIM KN-FOresIght-Innovation Network_HMI_Innovators Lounge_ZENIT GmbH

FOresIght exhibitor at LOPEC 2019 in Munich

ZENIT — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:16:17 +0000

FOresIght will be present at the joint booth No. 302 of the COPT Center at the LOPEC from 20 to 21 March 2019 in Munich.

https://www.lopec.com/index-2.html

Bild: LOPEC 2019

Call for Presentations -2nd Conference “Innovations in the Automotive Interior”

ZENIT — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:41:30 +0000

On 12.09.2019, the second specialist conference “Innovations in Automotive Interiors” will take place as part 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. The aim of the conference is to network players along the entire supply and value chain, to transfer technology between research and industry, and to discuss and exchange ideas among the players.

Future innovations need new qualities of the trend conversion, the intensive argument with future requirements, up to the development of new, innovative production networks. These innovation lines are taken up by the network and reflected with various groups of participants in order to flow into R&D projects. The aim of the Call for Presentations is to give you, the network partners, the opportunity to present current developments, solution examples or questions from your company at the conference.

Every presentation should:

last about 20 minutes
concern a topic from the FOresIght network (see below)
have a technological focus (product innovation etc.)

The conference will be held in German but slides are provided in English. Further, foreign participants will get the opportunity to present in English.

Topic of the conference:

Light and lighting elements in vehicle interiors
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

Information:

Proposals for presentations should be submitted by 31.03.2019. (Title and abstract, name of the speaker – total max. ½ DIN-A4-page)

Selection of the presentation and announcement of the results by the network management until 30.04.2019.

Send the presentation (complete presentation, written formulation of the content approx. 1 DIN A4 page, short CV of the speaker, photo of the speaker) to Linda Claßen, lc@zenit.de until 31.08.2019.

The document for the Call for Presentations can be found at:

ZIM KN FOresIght_Call for Presentations_ 2.Fachkonferenz

Background:

The ZIM cooperation network “FOresIght – functional integration and new surfaces for the automotive interior of the future” was successfully launched on 1st of November 2018 with 37 partners from the automotive industry, including eight small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), eleven universities and research institutes, ten associated partners and eight international SMEs along the entire value chain (OEM, Tier 1-3) in Phase 2, with a term of a further three years, on 1 November 2018.

The aim of the network is to develop innovations for the car interior of the future in the technology areas of surfaces, functional surfaces, real material back-injection (e.g. of wood, glass, stone, metal), (printed) electronics, lighting (LEDs, OLEDs, EEL), textiles, sensor technology, design, digitisation, tool and mould making and to put them to economic use.

Save the Date – 2nd Conference “Innovations in the Automotive Interior”

ZENIT — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:49:05 +0000

We kindly invite you to the:

2nd Conference

“Innovations in the Automotive Interior”

When?

Thursday, 12.09.2019, approx. 9 am – 4 pm

Where?

Mercedes-Benz Museum
Mercedesstraße 100, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany

Please note the date.

Topics of the conference:

Light and lighting elements in the automotive 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

Further information on the speakers will follow in the coming weeks.

The Call for Presentations will run until 30.04.2019:
https://foresight-automotive.com/2019/02/05/call-for-presentations-2-fachkonferenz/

Registrations under:

https://foresight-automotive.com/anmeldung/

Participation fee:

Companies (490,00€ plus VAT)
Start-Ups (120,00€ plus VAT)
R&D facilities (free of charge)
Network partner FOresIght (1st person free of charge, 2nd person 245,00€ plus VAT)

We offer you the possibility of presenting your enterprise your F&E mechanism on the specialized conference. Present your products and services to our specialist audience.

Background:

If you have any questions, please contact Linda Classen, lc@zenit.de.

Business Matching and new network partners at the 1st Network Meeting of Phase 2

ZENIT — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:45:55 +0000

On 23/24 January 2019 the 1st network meeting of phase 2 of the FOresIght network took place. Our 36 network partners (classic medium-sized companies, R&D facilities but also large industrial companies (OEM, Tier 1/2)) had the opportunity to get to know each other better in a business matching organized by the network management of ZENIT GmbH. 98 discussions had been organized.

The new (international) partners thus had the opportunity to make business contacts and present their products, services and R&D ideas to potential customers. GENERATIONDESIGN GmbH, one of our SME network partners, provided the rooms in the Elba Zukunftswerk in Wuppertal and created a design-oriented, open atmosphere in the Coworking Space.

The innovation network, founded in November 2017, started with 19 German partners and currently has 36 network partners, including six international partners from Switzerland, the UK and the Netherlands.

The goals are, among others, to initiate innovations in automotive interiors and thus, for example, to ensure competitiveness through knowledge transfer between R&D institutions and companies as well as easy access to funding.

Network membership is possible at any time.

FOresIght successfully starts Phase 2

ZENIT — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:59:37 +0000

The ZIM cooperation network for function integration and new surfaces in automotive interiors (FOresIght) initiated by ZENIT GmbH has a positive outlook for further three years of operation.

The ZIM cooperation network “FOresIght – Functional integration and new surfaces for the automotive interior of the future” was successfully launched on 1 November 2018 with 37 partners from the automotive industry, including seven small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), twelve universities and research institutes, ten associated partners and eight international SMEs along the entire value chain (OEM, Tier 1-3) in Phase 2, with a period of further three years, starting on 1 November 2018.

Development projects that can be initiated by the network include, for example: – the development and implementation of antibacterial surfaces in vehicle interiors, – the use of hybrid materials (e.g. back-injected real materials such as wood, steel or stone) for the individualisation of design surfaces, – the implementation of traces in cladding parts to increase the connectivity of displays and interior functions (e.g. lighting, temperature, individual surface design) with other utility products (smart phones, etc.).

Review of the Future Interior Summit 2018

ZENIT — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:30:19 +0000

The first Future Interior Summit 2018 took place on 20/21 October in Böblingen, the successor to the SV Conference “Automotive Interior”.

With the megatrends of mobility – electrification, autonomous driving, connectivity and car sharing – traditional values are shifting. Thanks to innovative technologies, the desire for individuality, comfort and quality of life is finding new fields of play – especially in the interiors of tomorrow’s vehicles. Understanding customers’ needs in these areas and offering them convincing solutions will determine future market success.

Exciting discussions about future trends were one of the main reasons for attending the conference. Like already in the last year new network partners for the FOresIght network could be won and also the awareness of the network was increased. Beside the specialized conference the company Bertrandt could be visited. We were able to gain good insights into the work of the service provider through the guided tour of the factory premises.

FOresIght exhibitor at conference innovative surfaces

ZENIT — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:03:14 +0000

Especially in the context of the change process through industry 4.0, the selection of the optimal surface technology gains even more importance and decides elementarily about the quality, costs of components as well as the robustness of the production. With its annual conference, the Plastics Institute Lüdenscheid aspires to actively promote innovation and present the latest trends, show less known possibilities and present current developments with future potential. From trend and design analysts to OEMs, material and technology providers and users, speakers from all areas of the value chain will once again be on hand to guarantee practical and application-oriented presentations.As usual, the second day will deal with a special topic. This year, various methods from the field of testing technology for surfaces were presented.

FOresIght used the conference to present the network at a side exhibition.

IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018

ZENIT — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:34:21 +0000

Transporters, buses and trucks – commercial vehicles are an essential part of our lives. Today, we can choose from many goods worldwide that are delivered directly to our homes. This would not be possible without freight transport and logistics. And it is commercial vehicles that are heading for the last mile. With a share of over 70 percent in transport performance, they form the backbone of our transport and economic system. At the same time, they serve as service providers and chauffeurs. They dispose of our waste, help with removals and rescue operations and drive the children to school or us to work. Commercial vehicles keep our everyday lives running, so to speak.

On the occasion of the 67th IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover from 20 to 27 September 2018, the question arises as to what the future of commercial vehicles will look like. The entire commercial vehicle industry is on an innovative road. As in many other branches of industry, the focus is on automation and networking, safety, environmental protection, electromobility and new concepts for logistics and transport in the city of the future.

The IAA Commercial Vehicles takes place every two years in Hanover and is the world’s leading trade fair for transport, logistics and mobility. It offers a unique cross-section through the entire value chain of the industry, from vehicles to transport and logistics, from manufacturers to the many medium-sized suppliers.

The FOresIght team also explored trends in the commercial vehicle industry to identify possible implications for automotive interiors at an early stage.

Further information: LinkPhoto: Linda Claßen, ZENIT GmbH