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Networking Event 2.0
At our second networking event, centered on "AI in Benchmarking, Benchmarking Processes & In-House Awareness", we experienced two days of insightful discussions. Key points implied the transformative potential of zero-shot AI for automating data analysis and innovative strategies to enhance cross-departmental knowledge sharing.
INDECember Cheer!
A wonderful evening filled with laughter, good food, and holiday cheer. This is our team coming together to celebrate the christmas season. We also send warm greetings to all our colleagues who couldn’t join us that evening due to their well-deserved holidays.
Partners
Falco Braun, Design to IP
Graduated Industrial Designer, certified Patent Engineer and expert for digitalized workflows in the areas of Patent Drafting, Patent Prosecution and Patent Litigation.
Through several years of experience as head of the development department of a medium-sized company and later as head of the product management of an international automotive supplier, Falco has extensive knowledge of the processes and contents in the entire product development process, as well as the business management experience associated with product marketing and placement.
With his industrial experience, he helped building up a TechCenter associated with a well-known German patent law firm and is now CEO of Design to IP GmbH, a company dedicated to digitizing the IP world.
Falco Braun, CEO Design to IP
www.designtoip.de
Polarix Partner
POLARIXPARTNER supports you with a structured, scalable, and proven approach to cost reduction. We systematically break down material, process, and overhead costs, identify cost drivers, and actionable levers for reduction.
One of the core aspects of Cost Engineering is achieving a market-competitive cost target while ensuring optimal customer value. Cost Engineering serves as a comprehensive navigation tool in both the product development process and the cost optimization of ongoing production series. It enables value-oriented management of product costs throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Through our partnership with INDEC, our customers benefit from the combination of a detailed documentation tool and POLARIXPARTNER’s cost expertise. This enables them to integrate not only technical parameters but also cost and CO2 calculations into their benchmarks.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hofmann
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hofmann has 15 years of experience in international leadership positions (OEM / Tier 1) in the automotive sector. In addition, Thomas has more than 12 years of consulting and teaching experience. The professor is actively involved in master’s and bachelor’s programs at several universities, where benchmarking and cost analyses play a significant role. He has been part of the INDEC community for about 12 years.
Academic collaborations began at the Hochschule Hamm Lippstadt, and today Prof. Hofmann collaborate with INDEC on innovative cost management and benchmarking studies at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt (University of Applied Science for Economy and Environment).
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hofmann
dcif - Your network
for competitive intelligence & innovation
Our panel “dcif” connects companies, experts, and research institutions to foster a professional and ethical competitive intelligence practice. Together, we create a foundation for informed decision-making and long-term success:
✔ Achieve more together – In interdisciplinary teams, our members develop practical CI methods, case studies, and strategies. Within just three months, we generate valuable insights that benefit all participants and drive innovation forward.
✔ A strong network – Benefit from exchange and collaboration with leading industry experts, thought leaders, and innovators to develop and implement cutting-edge solutions.
✔ Looking to the future – ESG, open source, and OSINT are key elements for achieving a sustainable and lasting competitive advantage in a rapidly changing market landscape.
✔ Share knowledge, drive innovation – Open source enhances quality, accelerates progress, and fosters transparency. Together, we unlock its full potential to create real impact.
Ursula Teubert, competitive and human intelligence
for R&D and innovation
InterimIT
INDEC is enhancing its IT and software development consulting services through a long-term partnership with InterimIT GmbH, based in Osnabrück, Germany. InterimIT, along with Bits&Vision eG and other partners, boasts a robust network of interim managers, consultants, software developers, process managers and experts covering the entire IT landscape. This collaboration grants access to over 1,000 IT professionals, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the digital supply chain. We leverage this expertise not only for INDEC but also offer it to INDEC’s clients as needed.
Matthias Burgardt, Managing Director
University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Dortmund
The Computer Science Department, led by Prof. Christoph Friedrich at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, has extensive experience in machine learning applications and information extraction from text and images. Their specialties include developing explainable deep learning models (XAI) and creating large training datasets using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The department boasts a strong track record in international projects, including BMBF and DiffPro ML.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Friedrich
www.fh-dortmund.de/personen/Christoph_M.-Friedrich/index.php
Rotec
Mr. Ronge has more than 20 years of experience from his time as head of competitive analysis in the automotive supply industry.
One of his main focuses was the development of a “best business process” for product benchmarking. Here, his aim was to implement the approach globally in-house, in order to fully support the product development process and successfully position it as a core competence of the company.
Today, Mr. Ronge uses his consulting role to support many companies from a wide range of manufacturing industries. Using tools from INDEC’s id-x-platform, such as GOBENCH, he helps them customize their benchmarking process to match their unique requirements, so they can assert their products as “best in class” with unique selling points.
Jilin-Tech-Web
Jilin-Tech-Web is the strategically important cooperation partner for the market leader INDEC for competitive analysis.
Mr. Han Zhao, Managing Director of Tech-Web based in Changchun, China, has been an established and reliable partner for INDEC since 2007 to introduce all INDEC services to Chinese industrial customers and develop the Chinese benchmarking business market. With the growth of its IT team and the benchmarking consulting team, Tech-Web also became INDEC's technical partner in 2023.
Tech-Web is developing new software functions for Chinese customers and is now also INDEC's development partner. Tech-Web is the key point for INDEC in China, the largest industrial location in the world.
From Germany to China, it is not just about the transfer of location or business, but also about the change from conventional to new energy. We are creating a win-win future!
Contact: h.zhao@tech-web.com.cn
Qpatch
Technologies, legal requirements and customer needs are changing ever faster. Innovative products for new applications in new markets are the result. In this exciting environment, strategically applied benchmarking with INDEC is important. With benchmarking, the unique sales propositions can be developed and the product manufacturing costs can also be optimised. To be successful amongst competition in the end.
Thomas Hannen, Methods in the development process
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