OEM&Lieferant Ausgabe 2/2021

By Keynote by VDA President 81 Hildegard Müller Editorial 85 Behaviourally optimistic Dr. Rolf Müller and Elisabeth Klock No obituary – the future of the 86 internal combustion engine By Armin Gehl, Managing Director of autoregion e.V., Saarbrücken Digitalization in the mechanical and 88 plant engineering industry How machine builders and plant equipment providers speed up in industry 4.0 By Dr.-Ing. Olaf Sauer, Automation Business Unit/Deputy Institute Director, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Karlsruhe Products and Markets Pre-treatment of multi-metal car bodies 91 with a high aluminum throughput By Joerg Zumkley, Global Communications Coatings, BASF and Jessica Giordano, Communications EMEA & SA, Chemetall GmbH Two experts, one goal. 92 Böllhoff and KUKA put the automation of self-pierce riveting processes in a nutshell By Annette Löwen, Head of FAT Marketing Germany, Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH Why Push-Pull Transformers are an Optimal Choice 94 for High Energy Storage Applications By Cathal Sheehan, Sr. Technical Market Manager Magnetics Division, Bourns Electronics, Ireland Engineering Partner Artificial intelligence in the automotive industry 96 Black box neural network: Interactive visualization improves understanding of decision-making processes in autonomous vehicles By Annika Mahl, ARRK Engineering GmbH, Munich Intuitive and smart: The new 98 Miele Service Documentation By Sven Drews, Project Manager in the account IT system development portals at ServiceXpert, Munich eMobility Electric Vehicle Development 100 By Steven Stover, Senior Manager Product Strategy, BorgWarner in Noblesville, IN (USA) and David Fulton, Director of Electric Drive Innovation, BorgWarner in Noblesville, IN (USA) Fuel cells Interview “Unit costs will fall by a factor of 5” 102 Armin Diez, CTO and COO of EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies in an interview with OEM & Supplier EMS service provider Extended production capacities 104 and new competences! IT & Automotive Cybersecurity included 105 Security for AUTOSAR Adaptive architectures By Dr. Stuart Mitchell, RTA-VRTE Senior Product Manager at ETAS GmbH, and Dr. Michael Peter Schneider, Project Manager AUTOSAR Security at ESCRYPT GmbH Eurofit/Radsystem Mosel – redesign of the 108 Just-in-Sequence (JIS) series supply LOJISTIX® replaces legacy system, fully integrated in SAP, maximum order transparency, PLC connection By Wolfgang Salinger, Director Business Unit Digital Supply Chain, WSW Software GmbH Transparent processes for rapid growth 110 By Friedrich Koopmann, Freelancer