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The final conference on the 1st of March in Aachen was the last get-together in our Consortium Benchmarking Artificial Intelligence in Operations.

Our annual report of the Institute of Technology Management 2022 has just been published. Please have a look:

HSG Spin-Offs haben in den letzten Jahren über 6000 Arbeitsplätze geschaffen. Viele der 171 Unternehmen, die das Spin-Off Label tragen, sind in HSG-nahen Sektoren wie der Finanz- und Versicherungsindustrie aktiv. Aber auch in der Lebensmittelindustrie und im IT-Bereich arbeiten innovative Startups von HSG-Absolvierenden. Das neue «HSG Spin-Off Barometer 2022» zeigt zudem, dass sich fast alle der Unternehmen an Nachhaltigkeitszielen orientieren.Read more

The final conference closed the consortium benchmarking global productions strategies 2022. Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli and Prof. Dr. Klaus Möller gave insights from research with their keynote speeches. Also, the five visits at Dätwyler, Festo, IMS:Gear, Schott and Kuka were summarized and discussed.

The Chair for Entrepreneurship has published a new open access book on the topic "Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship".

Our fourth and last meeting of our Global Production Academy 2022 took place at CLAAS in Harsewinkel this week.
As a globally leading agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS shared current insights into its production and its risk mitigation strategy for the global production network. In joint discussion rounds with our consortium together with Herrenknecht, CLAAS, FACC, HOMAG, MTU Aero Engines, Balluff, PERI and our research partner the wbk Institute of Production Science (wbk-KIT) we could collect and define valuable successful practices
Once again, we would like to express our sincere thanks to all participating companies for their exciting insights, our great discussions and openness in all four meetings. We are already looking forward to continuing our discussions in 2023.
If you would like to be part of our Global Production Academy 2023, feel free to reach out to our GPA Team!

Last Friday, the third meeting of the Global Production Academy, founded together with the wbk Institute of Production Science (wbk-KIT), took place. HOMAG, a leading manufacturer of woodworking machinery, shared exciting insights into its production strategy and its data-based approach for product allocation in the network. Afterwards, different approaches to design the production network were discussed together with the experts from Herrenknecht AG, CLAAS, FACC AG, HOMAG, MTU Aero Engines, Balluff EMEA and PERI In particular, the handling of uncertainty in the business environment and the consideration of soft decision criteria played a major role. We are already looking forward to deepening these discussions in the fourth meeting at the CLAAS on the topic of risk mitigation.

This year again, on the basis of the Swiss Manufacturing Survey 2022 with 308 participating companies and on the basis of interviews, a company was awarded which makes an outstanding contribution to the Swiss workplace.
This year we would like to congratulate Körber Pharma Packaging.
Congratulations!


Our toolkit is now also available in German – Design and implement platform business models with 88 pattern cards and a proven structure.

On September 22nd our second meeting of the Global Production Academy took place at Herrenknecht in Schwanau.

Our new white paper, developed with the St. Gallen Symposium, explores the shifting role of universities in the future of work and learning.