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Die Anforderungen an gute Unternehmensführung (Corporate Governance) nehmen in der Praxis stetig zu. Dies ist zum einen auf eine stark ansteigende Regulierungsdichte zurückzuführen. Beispiele wie die 2018 in Kraft tretende EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung, das neue CSR-Richtlinie-Umsetzungsgesetz oder das seit 2016 anzuwendende Gesetz zur gleichberechtigen Teilhabe von Frauen in Führungspositionen zeigen, dass internationale und nationale Gesetzgeber das Thema Corporate Governance als außerordentlich wichtig erachten.
Die vorliegende Studie des Aalener Instituts für Unternehmensführung (AAUF)zur Risikomanagementpraxis in deutschen Unternehmen zeigt, dass Risikomanagement für die Unternehmen ein Thema ist, welches aktiv von der Geschäftsführung/dem Vorstand diskutiert wird und welchem mehrheitlich eine mittlere bis sehr hohe Relevanz beigemessen wird, die in Zukunft sogar noch steigen wird.
While Virtual Reality (VR) has been applied to various domains to provide new visualization and interaction capabilities, enabling programmers to utilize VR for their software development and maintenance tasks has been insufficiently explored. In this paper, we present the Hyper-Display Environment (HyDE) in the form of a mixed-reality (HyDE-MR) or virtual reality (HyDE-VR) variant respectively, which provides simultaneous multiple operating system window visualization with integrated keyboard/mouse viewing and interaction using MR or in pure VR via a virtual keyboard. This paper applies HyDE in a software development case study as an alternative to typical non-VR Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), supporting software engineering tasks with multiple live screens in VR as an augmented virtuality. The MR solution concept enables programmers to benefit from VR visualization and virtually unlimited information displays while supporting their more natural keyboard interaction for basic code-centric tasks. Thus, developers can leverage VR paradigms and capabilities while directly interacting with their favorite tools to develop and maintain program code. A prototype implementation is described, with a case study demonstrating its feasibility and an initial empirical study showing its potential.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) Frameworks (EAFs) have attempted to support comprehensive and cohesive modeling and documentation of the enterprise. However, these EAFs were not conceived for today’s rapidly digitalized enterprises and the associated IT complexity. A digitally-centric EAF is needed, freed from the past restrictive EAF paradigms and embracing the new potential in a data-centric world. This paper proposes an alternative EAF that is digital, holistic, and digitally sustainable - the Digital Diamond Framework. D2F is designed for responsive and agile enterprises, for aligning business plans and initiatives with the actual enterprise state, and addressing the needs of EA for digitized structure, order, modeling, and documentation. The feasibility of D2F is demonstrated with a prototype implementation of an EA tool that applies its principles, showing how the framework can be practically realized, while a case study based on ArchiSurance example and an initial performance and scalability characterization provide additional insights as to its viability.
Databases are becoming an ubiquitous and integral part of most software as the data era and the Internet of Everything unfolds. Alternative database types such as NoSQL grow in popularity and allow data to be stored and accessed more simply or in new ways. Thus, software developers, not just database specialists, are more likely to encounter and need to deal with databases. Virtual Reality (VR) technology has grown in popularity, yet its integration in the software development tool chain has been limited. One potential application area for VR technology that has not been sufficiently explored is database-model visualization. This paper describes Virtual Reality Immersion in Data Models (VRiDaM), a generic database-model approach for visualizing, navigating, and conveying database-model information interactively. It describes and explores both native VR and WebVR solution concepts, with prototypes showing the viability of the approach.
Forming complex parts out of high and ultra-high strength aluminium alloys has proved to be more challenging in comparison to the currently used deep drawing steels. Nevertheless, aluminium alloys show a limited formability in contrast with, for example, deep drawing steels. Novel processes like Warm-forming, W-Temper or Hotforming, offer the potential to produce light and highly integrated one-piece components from such aluminium alloys at elevated temperatures. When considering aluminium alloys of the 7000 group, which can reach strength values (UTS) of about 600 MPa, crash components such as side impact bars would offer a suitable field of application.
Forming at elevated temperatures, in particular with the Hotforming process, offers high potential in the production of complex structural components on the one hand and in the use of existing press hardening equipment on the other. To date, the material behaviour of aluminium alloys in the 7000 group, applied in such processes and in the later final state after forming, is not sufficiently known.
Therefore, in this study, systematic investigations on the formability and the final strength during and after forming at elevated temperature of the EN AW-7075 aluminium wrought alloy from different suppliers are conducted. In general, material- and damage/ failure models were created and implemented into simulation in order to make predictions. Characterisation of the plastic material properties on the basis of various tensile specimens as shear-, notched-, tensile- and Erichsen tests are carried out to adapt the complex material- and failure models such as Barlat YLD2000 and GISSMO to the experimental values using a parameter optimisation. These were made for the material conditions during forming, i.e. after solution heat treatment, the final condition after artificial ageing at 180°C for 20 minutes, which corresponds to the cathodic dip coating, and the T6 condition, which is the highest strength condition.
To evaluate a suitable friction coefficient for high temperature forming processes, anti-friction agents are screened, and the potential applicability evaluated by strip-drawing tests. Thereby, using an analytical relationship, friction coefficients are determined at room temperature and 180°C, which are used as corresponding friction model for the finite element forming simulation.
Crash simulations using the nonlinear finite element method (FEM) of side impact protection beams are used to demonstrate the weight saving potential of high and ultra-high strength aluminium alloys compared to a beam made of press hardened steel. A weight saving of about 20 % could be achieved with the same crash performance. This can be significantly increased to around 30 % - 40 % by using local reinforcements such as CFRP or GFRP (carbon/ glass fibre reinforced plastic) patch. For this reason, a novel process was developed which is based on the conventional Hotforming process with an integrated thermal direct joining step called “Extended Hotforming”.
Subsequently, a heatable forming tool for the production of a serial like sheet metal side impact beam was developed to validate the finite element simulation and to demonstrate the potential of the forming processes at elevated temperatures for aluminium sheet metal components.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der Umsetzung und Implementierung von Compliance-Management in deutschen Unternehmen. Dazu wurden 142 Unternehmen anhand einer elektronischen Umfrage befragt. Der Fragebogen enthält 32 Fragen, diese sind in die drei Abschnitte „allgemeine Unternehmensfragen“, „Fragen zum Compliance Management“ und „demographische Daten“ unterteilt. Die Umfrage fokussiert sich hierbei besonders auf Fragestellungen hinsichtlich der organisatorischen Eingliederung, Funktionsweise, Aufgaben und Instrumente sowie der Bewertung des Compliance-Managements innerhalb der Unternehmen.
Cybercrime im Mittelstand
(2020)
Die Bedrohung durch Cyber-Kriminalität entwickelt sich ständig weiter. Auch die Studie des Aalener Instituts für Unternehmensführung (AAUF) zeigt, dass Cyber-Security ein durchaus Ernst zunehmendes Thema ist, dessen sich die Geschäftsleitung zwingend annehmen sollte, gehören Cyber-Angriffe doch mittlerweile schon zum Alltag vieler Unternehmen.
Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Hygiene-Compliance in Krankenhäusern.
Zur Einhaltung von Regeln der Hände- und Flächendesinfektion wurden hierzu Entscheider von Krankenhäusern in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz befragt.
In der Studie zeigt sich eine starke Sensibilisierung für das Thema Compliance. Hier ist hinzuzufügen, dass die Studie vor der Corona-Pandemie durchgeführt wurde, und
bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt gab es eine Aufmerksamkeit für das Thema.