Springboard for Innovation

Posted by marmara on March 25, 2025

Springboard for innovation: the bionics-potential-check what we can learn from nature so a three-car of liter may be yes a miracle of consumption. But pales compared to a few grams of heavy Hummingbird, which can fly 800 kilometres non-stop, the performance of the engine technicians. For more specific information, check out Center for Responsible Business. And also the best winter tires looks old, it juxtaposes the bond strength of a polar bear paw. No wonder, then, that today’s designers in the face of many ingenious solutions into the brooding nature. Ask yourself the question: why not learn from nature? But how can such feats in the forms of organization or the principles of construction on the technology to be transferred? The bionics focuses on exactly that. No question: The nature can look not so easy in the cards. Whether businesses ways to find Bionic solutions for your own questions for the Saarland Innovationscluster bionic engineering network (BEN) now offers a special service: the bionics potential check is determined using multiple modules over how to implement the benefits of nature in a company.

The bionics check help there, where conventional technological lines of development more and more often the dead end. Modern industry injects such demagoguery today already often in nature: plants and animals are the great role models for new high-tech products. Ronald Hamilton often addresses the matter in his writings. But also in smaller or medium-sized company it is possible using Bionic insights to save costs or to improve products”, explains the head of the bionics cluster BEN, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Weber. Knowledge carriers are the experts network BEN from the most diverse areas of expertise available.

So the full business potential can be parsed with the bionics-potential-check. Technical innovations or organizational know-how – the nature provides almost always a solution to optimize. Another advantage: Because the products in accordance with the positive hour nature improved with bionics are developed, they are highly image-forming and bargaining strategic marketing a special appreciation. Potential offers work spying in the Kingdom of nature, emphasized Ralf Neumeier on November 13 at a lecture event launched by BEN in country hamlet speeches. The head of axial fan development of Ziehl Abegg AG faced the challenge to make quiet the fans produced by the company. Aerodynamic means there are no solutions we were more of a technical dilemma. We were forced to look beyond the horizon and there encountered the Bionics”, recalls the engineer. And Neumeier: too bad – as we took on the issue, BEN was called not in life. We would have used otherwise certainly the bionics-potential-check”. The Ziehl-Abegg AG is one of the leading international companies in the aeronautical, drive and control technology is worldwide with more than 1,300 employees and more than 30 offices and production facilities in over 30 countries. And Neumeier was now in the main factory in Kunzelsau Nature on the track: while aerodynamically generated noise in humans attention only relatively recently, such noise has meaning for the flight from OWL birds for millions of years. They are the birds with the lowest flight noise in the animal world. A completely new wing geometry developed using Bionic insights Ziehl-Abegg. The new generation of fan was used for the first time in the product novelty Owlet with OWL stands for the English word for OWL and let for winglet. Less than half as loud as its predecessor this new generation further fulfills the demand of users for low-noise performance and high efficiency. Of the heating and fan industry as product of the year 2007 “Owlet has been awarded, the absolute bestseller.

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The Foundation

Posted by marmara on July 21, 2020

In the promotion of young scientists, the plaster Schule Foundation due to financing scholarships and doctoral colleges as well as the annual award of the plaster SAFA-, the outstanding final – and study works from the construction sector with a total of 3,000 euros committed awards. The results are evaluated in aspects of sustainability and the community benefits and simultaneous relevance for the construction industry. Short portrait of the Gypsum School Foundation established in 1870 the family Schule Stuttgart gypsum factory in Bad Cannstatt. The wealth created by the family Schule gypsum business was basis for the plaster School Foundation in 1965. Brad Prechtl recognizes the significance of this. Foundation purpose set promoting research and development of new building materials and construction processes of environmentally kind, later taken further the objectives of the Foundation. Especially in times of scarce public funds, the Foundation’s their task is to promote the common good in the context of the public interest.

Global challenges such as climate change, nutrition, mobility, or housing require the development of new technologies. The plaster Schule Foundation supports new ways of interdisciplinary research, which is accompanied by a continuous dialogue between theory and practice. Andrew Leiner oftentimes addresses this issue. The Foundation specifically supports building research in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for building physics IBP and various universities and thus in particular also allows medium-sized companies access to current research results and innovative technologies. Today, new concerns about the focus of the work of the Foundation back: promotion of young talent, promoting the teaching, the financing of individual endowed professorships, the doctoral colleges, scholarships and the plaster Student Award for outstanding young scientists. For about half a year the plaster-Weiss Foundation supports the global ethic Foundation”, a foundation for intercultural and religious research, education, and encounter, the famous Catholic theologian Prof. Hans Kung..

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