Systems & Components Forum Program

The Future Lounge at Systems & Components presents a highly technical and scientific program from Monday, November 13th to Friday, November 17th with two daily company spotlights, a keynote speaker as well as a roundtable session with market leaders.

The technical program will address a different theme every day from Smart Maintenance to Alternative Drive Systems to Human Machine Interface to Materials and finally to Corporate Engineering. In all these topics, the goal is to discover the direction of technical evolution, what technical possibilities exist today and how to use them.

Monday, November 13th: SMART MAINTENANCE
Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
10:00 – 10:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Alexander Bertsch – Product manager	Liebherr-Elektronik GmbH	“LiView” – Intelligent position transducer for hydraulic cylinders
11:00 – 11:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Mr. Christian Mörtl – COO	time:matters GmbH	Title: High Performance Supply Chain Management Subtitle: Service & operational excellence based on machine learning combined with high performance global transport solutions
14:00 – 14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Dr. Johannes Sonnen – Project Management	DKE-Data GmbH & Co. KG	Cross-Manufacturer Data-Exchange-Platform for the Value-Chain in Agriculture
15:00 – 15:45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION	DANA – Giulio Ornella – Head of Fluid Power, Electronics and Advanced Engineering VDMA – Peter Michael Synek Liebherr – Mr. Stefan Wallmüller, Head of Engine Controls, Liebherr Machines Bulle SA Argo Hytos – Roman C. Krähling, Head of Condition Monitoring, Fluid Management & Electronics		Smart and Predictive Maintenance in Mobile Machinery

Tuesday, November 14th: ELECTRIFICATION: OUT OF THE VALLEY
Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
10:00 – 10:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Peter Pickle	JOHN DEERE GmbH & Co. KG – European Technology Innovation Center	Grid Plug-in Hybrid System
11:00 – 11:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Florian Glatt	WhatAVenture	How to unlock Your Innovation-Potential
14:00 – 14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Matthias Horx		Trend- und Zukunftsforscher
15:00 – 15:45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION	ZF – Gerhard Stempfer (Head electrification) AVL – Hagen Adam Managing Director and Business Field manager Off Road Bonfiglioli – Massimo Palomba (Product Manager for Electromobility) Sensor-Technik Wiedemann (STW) – Harald Dietel, Project Management and „High Voltage” Team Leader for Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) Moderator: TÜ Dresden – Professor Thomas Herlitzius		Alternative Drive Systems

Wednesday, November 15th: HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE
Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
10:00 – 10:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Mr. Sven Samplatzki	nation d GmbH	“Virtual (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)”
11:00 – 11:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Dr. rer. nat. Mathias Vukelic	Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Competence Center Human-Computer Interaction	Neuro-adaptive Technologies: Thought as an (auxiliary) interaction paradigm
14:00 – 14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Kishor Sridhar		Emotional Solution Selling – The new level of customer orientation
15:00 – 15:45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION	ZF Friedrichshafen AG – Dr. Marcus Hiemer CLAAS – Dr. agr. Hartmut Matthes Walvoil – Alberto Rocchi (Electronic Design Mgr) User Interface Design GmbH – Manfred Dorn, Head of Design		Human Machine Interface

Thursday, November 16th: MATERIALS
Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
10:00 – 10:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Nicola Guelfo – Head of Industrial Design Styling	Italdesign Giugiaro
11:00 – 11:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Alberto Tacconelli, Managing Director	Aidro Metal 3D Printing Division	Additive Manufacturing : Lightweight and new materials in hydraulic solutions
14:00 – 14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Horst Draudt		Future Life Expert
15:00 – 15:45 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION	Hydro Extruded Solutions – Jonas Bjuhr (Director Product Development) Fritzmeier Cabin Group – Uwe Rastel (Vice President Engineering) AIDRO – Ms. Valeria Tirelli, CEO Dr.Ing. Gerhard Kopp, Group Leader “Lightweight concepts and methods for road vehicles” in the “Vehicle Architectures and Lightweight Design Concepts” department from the DLR Institute of Vehicle Concepts		Lightweight Materials in Mobile Applications

Friday, November 17th: CORPORATE ENGINEERING
Time	Speaker	Company	Topic
10:00 – 10:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Davide Zampiva, Methodologies and Testing Manager Carraro Research and Development	Carraro Group	Borderless Democratic Engineering
11:00 – 11:45 COMPANY SPOTLIGHT	Jacques Bonifay, CEO	Transatel
14:00 – 14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER	Prof. Ulrich Walter
15:15 – onwards	STEM learning: Meccano construction session / competition