Guest Lectures

In our lecture series on Industry 4.0, Prof. Voigt welcomed Prof. Dr. Alexander Pflaum, who is Director of Fraunhofer SCS and Professor at the University of Bamberg. Prof. Pflaum talked about the way towards a platform economy in times of digitization and Industry 4.0. Thereby, he gave some very int...

The Chair of Industrial Management had the pleasure to welcome Daniel Krauss, founder and CIO at FlixMobility (formerly FlixBus), for a guest lecture on the topics of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and the future of mobility. FlixMobility was founded four years ago and nowadays dominates t...

As part of the course “BWL für Ingenieure”, Dr.-Ing. Daniel Teichmann, founder and CEO of Hydrogenious Technologies, held a motivating guest lecture entitled “Aus der Forschung in die Firma – Ausgründung der Hydrogenious Technologies GmbH aus der FAU”. As a spin-off of the FAU, Hydrogenious Technolo...

The Chair had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Mathias Glasmacher, Head of Corporate Technology at Diehl, for a guest lecture on the topic Industry 4.0. Dr. Glasmacher talked about Diehl and its view on Industry 4.0. Hereby, he has shown by examples how Diehl is dealing with this megatrend. Moreover, he ...

In our lecture series on Industry 4.0, the Chair welcomed Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm, advisory board member of Acatech and former CTO of Siemens. In his speech “Industrie 4.0: Digitale Transformation des Produktlebenszyklus” he showed how digitization and connectivity change business models and va...

Prof. Voigt and Prof. Scheffler had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Dieter Kempf (BDI-president), who held a captivating guest lecture on Industrie 4.0 and on its cross-national effects. After introducing the BDI, which is the leading organization of the German industry and of industrial service provi...

Following an invitation from Prof. Dr. Kai-Ingo Voigt, a great guest lecture was held by Prof. Dr. Tim Hosenfeldt at the School of Business and Economics. Prof. Hosenfeld is Senior Vice President at Schaeffler AG and is responsible for Schaeffler’s technology and innovation strategy, including innov...

Today, the course "Das Industrieseminar" (The Industry Seminar) has started with a successful kick-off event. This semester, 20 students will examine how suppliers can be most effectively integrated during the implementation of Industry 4.0 initiatives. The seminar is co-hosted by Prof. Dr. Asenkers...

As part of the combined lecture series in the courses “Technology and Innovation Management” and “Innovation”, Dr. Andreas Volek, who is Head of Strategic Innovation Management at Diehl, held an interesting presentation on innovation practices at Diehl. In particular, he explained a systematic appro...

The Chair announces a top-class lecture series on the topic „Industrie 4.0 – Perspektiven für die deutsche Wirtschaft“, taking place this summer term. Besides the president of the BDI, Prof. Dieter Kempf, representatives of nearly all relevant German companies affected by Industry 4.0 will report on...