14 Mr. Hermanns, a few weeks ago, you celebrated your company’s tenth anniversary. Your long-term customers, mainly from the automotive industry and related sectors, nevertheless see you as a youngster. Having begun as a start-up company, you are now far beyond the founding stage. Where does your company stand today, and what are your take-aways looking back on your company’s evolution and history? fleXstructures – Leading the way in innovative and ground-breaking product design Interview with Oliver Hermanns, Managing Director of fleXstructures GmbH, Kaiserslautern and Daniel Dengel, Technical Sales, fleXstructures GmbH Ten years of successful industrial design history: fleXstructures GmbH, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, has become an internationally recognized innovation partner unlike any other start-up company in the German industrial landscape. And not only for the automotive industry. Thanks to its pioneering products and services, primarily in the digital design and validation of wiring systems and hose systems, the company’s growth trajectory is now firmly established. Graphics: © fleXstructures GmbH/Geometry models courtesy of Caresoft Global Oliver Hermanns: Looking back over the past ten years, we can legitimately claim that while we didn’t get everything right, we nonetheless did get a lot of things right. In particular, our initial focus on the automotive industry proved to be a stroke of luck. Simply because the increasingly rapid changes and evolution in car designs and models means that the automotive industry is a big driver in innovation, which in turn means its suppliers also need to Wiring system application cases – IPS Cable Simulation Dr. Rudolf Müller Oliver Hermanns Daniel Dengel be innovative. Our products and services serve a niche market that is of major significance for the automotive industry precisely because of its cost intensity. What are the main reasons for your success? Oliver Hermanns: One of the main reasons is certainly the fact that we still hold a unique position in the global market with our products. None of our competitors is able to offer comparable products and services with the level of quality that we do. We have achieved this market position not least through intensive interdisciplinary cooperation between physicists, mathematicians, mechanical engineers, and computer scientists. This has resulted in the development of a product like IPS Cable Simulation, which makes it possible to digitally design and validate complex flexible components such as wire harnesses, cables, and hoses in a physically accurate and user-friendly manner in real time.
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