Agenda 2024, Day 1 - Tuesday

08:50

Welcome and Kick-Off by Conference Chair

Georg Sterler
Former Head of Wire Harness System Development,
AUDI AG

09:00

Industry Transformation – Adapting to Win

Joachim Langenwalter
Senior Industry Advisor, Founder,
TMT CoPilots

  • Legacy companies and working models under pressure
  • Assessment of culture, technology, customer and business model
  • Combining hardware, software and AI platform to win
09:30

Change in Electrical Systems: Time to Switch on 48V?

Ole Mende
Director for Electrical Distribution Systems,
Audi AG
Bodo Specht
Head of Vehicle Electrical System Development,
Volkswagen AG

  • Why is this new discussion strongly recommended?
  • What requirements and prerequisites have changed?
  • How does future energy architecture may look like?
10:00

OEM View on Wiring Harness Production Automation

Rainer König
Senior Manager Wiring Harness,
Mercedes-Benz AG
Mario Spoljarec
General Manager Wiring Harness,
BMW AG

  • Advantages of a production automation
  • Standards as an enabler
  • Common industry wide focus
10:30
Coffee break & Networking

Coffee break & Networking

11:00

Flexible Circuits in the Automotive and Battery Industries

Robert Wuyts
General Manager,
Föhrenbach Application Tooling NV

  • Flexible circuit compositions in electric vehicles
  • Advantages + Comparison with common wiring harnesses used in a vehicle
11:30

Adding Options beyond Copper – Glass Optical Fiber for Automotive Highspeed Data Links

Michael Linder
Senior Manager Commercial Technology, Automotive Glass Solutions,
Corning GmbH
Gordon Mueller-Schlomka
Senior Product Development Engineer for Optical Applications,
Corning GmbH

12:00

Harness Trends in the Automotive Industry

Matt Schroeder
Chief Engineer, Caresoft Global Technologies, Inc.

  • Harness design trends supporting electrical architectures for EU-, China-, and US-OEM
  • Harness packaging and vehicle integration techniques
12:30
Logo Schunk

Joint Lunch Sponsored by SCHUNK &
Networking in the Trade Exhibition

14:00

Ready for the Digital, Automated Future of the Wiring Harness

Ingo Busche
Head of Development/Design Engineering Wiring Harness Concept & Package,
AUDI AG
Andreas Weber
CEO,
semantic PDM

  • Automation in the wiring harness and new possibilities
  • Creating the value of digital transformation
14:30

Systems Approach to 48V Wiring Harness Optimization

Magnus Svensson
Senior Manager Advanced Vehicle Architecture,
Aptiv

  • New features driving content growth, impacting complexity, weight, package size and cost
  • Transition to 48V systems will help drive optimization of WH
  • 48V architectures can provide benefits
15:00

The Next Generation of Connectors in the Wiring System – Further Optimization of Packing Density

Martin Bleicher
Director Engineering,
TE Connectivity Germany GmbH

15:30

The Contribution of Tape for Automizing Wire Harnessing Production

Matthias Seibert
Head of Product Development Electrical Systems,
tesa SE
Christian Oswald
International Product Manager,
tesa SE

  • Specific characteristics of tape in production
  • Contribution of tape towards automation
  • Opportunities of automatic tape wrapping
16:00
Coffee break & Networking

Coffee break & Networking

16:30

Model-based Schematic Generation in the Digital Wiring Harness Development

Rainer König
Senior Manager Wiring Harness,
Mercedes-Benz AG
Georg Zimmermann
Director Product Line Process Tools,
Vector Informatik GmbH

  • Motivation and intended added value
  • Strategic and operative objectives
  • Solution concept, status and outlook
17:00

CAN XL: With a View to Optimizing the Wiring System – Implementation and Protection

Marko Moch
Senior System Development Engineer,
CARIAD SE

  • CAN XL is real-time capable, performant and easy to implement in the wiring harness, as is familiar with CAN
  • Practical example: Application for chassis/drive functions
17:30

Green Wiring System – Analysis and Potential for CO2 Reduction Using Examples of Different Cable Harnesses

Stefan Trippler
Coordinator – Environment & Sustainability,
SEI Automotive Europe GmbH

  • Development of an LCA tool based on the IMDS and secondary data
  • CO2 emission analysis of typical W/Hs and potentials for reduction
  • Availibity of recycling material and actual recycling technologies for W/H
18:00

End of Conference Day 1 –
Conclusions by Conference Chair

Georg Sterler
Former Head of Wire Harness System Development,
AUDI AG

19:00
Get-together at the Reithaus

Get-together at the Reithaus