SPALECK Surface Engineering GmbH & Co. KG

Sebastian Van de Locht, Head of Electrical Engineering, Alwin Keiten-Schmitz, Managing Director (both Spaleck), Udo Holdschlag, Production Manager Flender (back from left) and Benedikt Latos, Research Assistant, Prof. Dr. med. Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner, Head of Department at the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IAW, both RWTH Aachen University) and dr. Christian Kruse, Professor of Business Informatics at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Bocholt (from left to right) met for the kick-off workshop for the research project “FlexDeMo” at Spaleck Oberflächentechnik in Bocholt.
“FlexDeMo” is the abbreviation for a joint research project of the Westfälische Hochschule in Bocholt, the Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAW) of the RWTH Aachen, the two medium-sized industrial partners Spaleck Oberflächentechnik from Bocholt and Intravis from Aachen as well as the software company Databay from Würselen.

In simple terms, the project is about how, in the future, work can be organized innovatively and socially in medium-sized companies.