TPV Innovation Station’s first two challenges officially closed on Sunday, 31 March, 2019. Our panel of experts is reviewing your ideas and will inform you of the final results.
If you missed applying to these two challenges, don’t worry. We’re opening a new challenge today and several more are yet to come.
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TPV launched a new video at TnT: Explosion of Technologies and won the HR video battle.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
BEST Ljubljana hosted the 11th student engineering contest MacGyver 11.0 on March 15 and 16, 2019 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.
Teams of four participated in two categories – Case Study and Team Design. TPV took part in the Case Study category. The winning team who offered the best solutions is team Trme. Respectively, team Trdoglavci competeted best in Team Design.
Winners in both categories receive 400€ and proceed to regional level of EBEC Alpe-Adria.
BEST Ljubljana is hosting the 11th student engineering contest in Slovenia, MacGyver 11.0. The event is taking place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana on March 15 and 16, 2019.
The contest is intended for creative students that enjoying finding new ways of solving tasks and problems. Teams of four can participate in two categories – Case Study and Team Design. Winners in both categories receive 400€ respectively and proceed to the regional level of EBEC Alpe-Adria.
More information available at: https://www.macgyver.si/
Only 16 days left until the deadline of our 2 challenges. Have you already shared your innovative idea with us? If you have not, it is not too late – apply now!
In 2019, TPV celebrates its 30th anniversary, which made the programme of the 6th Day of Innovation of TPV Group, the event where TPV Group presents their innovative activities and achievements of the previous year and points out the trends and novelties in this field, particularly rich. At this opportunity, TPV launched their own open platform called TPV Innovation Station to acquire new ideas and connect with external partners.
Mr. Marko Gorjup, MSc, Director – President of the Management TPV d.o.o., held the opening speech, where he stressed the decisive role the innovations play in ensuring competitiveness to companies, and by saying »when the innovative minds unite, the ideas do not only add up, but also multiply« he pointed out the need to open and cooperate in this field to the greatest extent possible. In TPV they are aware of this so they have been systematically developing, promoting and remunerating innovations at all levels of operations involving all employees for many years now. As of today, their innovation system is opening outwards by launching a new platform called TPV Innovation Station and inviting organisations and individuals to create together the mobility of the future.
The idea of connecting and opening was supported also by the main speaker at the event, dr. Johannes Reindl, Head of Strategy and Processes Innovation Management, Purchasing, BMW Group, who in his lecture demonstrated the impact of innovations on changes in the automotive industry and the way BMW addresses this area.
Among the innovative ideas, the Innovation Committee traditionally selects the most valuable proposal submitted by an individual and a team who receive an additional award. At the ceremony, the recognitions and awards for the best innovative ideas were conferred by the director – president of management, Mr. Marko Gorjup and the director – member of management, Mr. Ivan Erenda. According to the Innovation Committee, Predrag Vučinić was the most impressive innovator with the innovative proposal called »Manufacturing of a welding tool for resistance welding on the Daimler project«. The award for the most valuable team innovation was conferred to Blaž Stare, Mišo Pereško, Veljko Goleš, Alen Černelč, Boris Antolovič, Peter Pšeničnik and Jože Gramc for their innovation called »Smart machine – cardboard box assembler with cardboard storage«. Both awarded innovations follow the company’s guidelines and support the company’s vision »Connecting innovative solutions« for they have been implemented in cooperation with at least two business units within the company and are directed towards automation, search for breakthrough ideas and optimisation of existing processes. They have both contributed to increasing the company’s competitiveness, winning new deals, achieving higher productivity, and improving work ergonomics.
As every year, TPV was innovative also in the way of passing the awards – this year they were delivered by a space shuttle which is the result of their own development.
The event was in an innovative way spiced up by musicians Anina Trobec and Joseph Wheba, who, especially for this occasion, played an innovative instrument made from parts TPV manufactures for the most demanding car manufacturers.
On September 26, 2018, Brdo pri Kranju hosted the 16th Innovation Day of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (GZS), where the national awards for innovation were granted. 772 innovators with 197 innovations took part in the competition for the awards at the regional level, whereas 42 best innovations from 13 regions of Slovenia competed in the national finals.
The absolute winner of the competition was TPV’s innovation »the first integrated stepless door check«, which won the gold award and the public choice award.
Usual door checks of vehicles normally provide two holding positions between the opening and closing position. This often proves insufficient, because there is risk of damaging our and the neighbouring vehicles’ doors. This has led the company TPV to identify the need of door checks with unlimited door positioning between both extreme positions. This innovative solution solves the design and implementation problem of the door check system as it takes little space for installation and provides stepless holding positions. The innovative stepless door check is lightweight, compact, durable, easy to manufacture and use, and it does not need any maintenance in its lifetime, so it is suitable for large-scale manufacturing. With the innovative solution we provide major benefits to both the car manufacturers and car users.
The BMW Group, a leading manufacturer of premium cars with its BMW, MINI in Rolls-Royce car brands, has after more than two years of a complex selection process in a strong international competition nominated the Slovenian company TPV as an exclusive supplier of the trailing arm.
Technologically state-of-the-art product with a key impact on the driving dynamics, will be built into more than 6 million vehicles as part of BMW platform. The production will start in a few years. Within the framework of this project, TPV is going to create 200 jobs and substantially increase their production capacities which will be conceived as smart factories including a high level of automation and robotization.
According to experts, this is the biggest individual contract ever made in the Slovenian supply industry. TPV as a pre-development and development supplier, is also the provider of overall product development, which is in view of high customer requirements a remarkable achievement and proof of top level of TPV’s development competencies and Slovenian automotive industry as a whole. In this way, TPV is becoming one of the key exporters of Slovenian know-how and globalization drivers of Slovenian economy.