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Environmental sustainability plays an important role for future mobility and thereby for car manufacturers and their suppliers. Regarding the increasing focus on renewable energy and on an efficient use of energy electromobility is seen as a solution for energy and environmental challenges. Many countries want to increase the share of electric cars and have set themselves ambitious targets. Car manufacturers...
The word engineering is used in various contexts and for a broad range of disciplines. But there is no common understanding for engineering disciplines. It is not clear which disciplines exist, the scope of disciplines is not defined, and there is no common naming conventions for engineering disciplines. This paper shall promote the common understanding of engineering by an investigation on the diversity...
The companies active in international project business are faced with the optimization task how the different phases in the technical value chain can most efficiently be shared between headquarter and local country organizations. Many regionalization cases the authors have examined have critical issues in domains such as internal setup, strategy, risk assessment, or know-how transfer. Therefore, in...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
The critical influence of functional strategies on business success is undisputed, as well as the impact of engineering. Surprisingly, research on functional strategies for engineering organizations is scarce. Purpose: this contribution aims to provide engineering organizations with a guideline for the development and implementation of engineering strategies. Approach: first, a literature review determines...
Experimental and computational investigations of anti‐Bredt amidinium salts are presented. Calculations show that the pyramidalization of an amino group can significantly destabilize the formal carbocation center of amidiniums, due to the decreased π donation. In some cases, the unfavorable ‐I effect of nitrogen surpasses its beneficial +M effect, and amidiniums become less stable than iminiums. It...
In a fast changing business environment it is essential for companies to adapt to changes and react to upcoming challenges. Therefore it is of high significance for decision-makers to be constantly up-to-date with future challenges. This research study focuses on an important, but often neglected part of product-oriented services - commissioning services. Especially in the investment-intensive sector...
In many areas of the German industry exists a shortage of engineers. A challenge is the demanding education and the competences required for engineers, depending on the specialist area. Thereby an increasing importance of soft skills is visible, e.g. in the key qualifications published by the Association of German Engineers (VDI). This paper contributes the understanding of the professional requirements...
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