The aim of the “ViSAAR” project is to prepare small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in structurally weak regions for the future in the area of location-independent working.
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The aim of the “ViSAAR” project is to prepare small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in structurally weak regions for the future in the area of location-independent working.
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As fields of action, virtual leadership, virtual collaboration, virtual mobility, virtual production and virtual coaching for production-related companies are in the foreground.
In a nutshell
What?
The project is being carried out by an interdisciplinary association of seven industrial or production-related companies and four institutes from the fields of business development, technology development and social research. The realization of the project focuses on both the operational and the regional framework for action, so that models of good practice are implemented in the participating companies and, in addition, a broad impact is achieved, especially in the structurally weak districts of the Saarland.
How?
Operational implementation is based on a uniform framework model that is open to company-specific and needs-based solutions. The project is implemented in four phases: Inventory-conception-testing-balancing. Within the region, the project association with the corporate partners is the nucleus for an innovation network that implements an exchange of experience on the implementation of the measures and on the transformation of work and anchors the project in regional companies and institutions.
Initial situation
Some regions, such as the Saarland, are particularly hard hit by structural change and demographic change. The ability to perform, adapt and innovate, especially in industrial and production-related companies, is closely linked to social prosperity and the economic attractiveness of the region.
How can innovative work design therefore provide impetus for the future viability of industrial companies and for the regional environment? What role can digital technologies play in such a strategy?
Saarland – federal state with highest proportion of
industrial jobs
Change in the automotive industry
toward e-mobility
The August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute develops three basic components:
Research and dissemination of methods for the efficiency assessment of virtualization measures in companies, especially for SMEs.
Development and validation of transfer concepts for the efficient use of existing virtualization solutions and their organizational implementation.
New development of demand-oriented software solutions for use in SMEs with the goal of process virtualization (including mobile solutions, web solutions, augmented reality solutions).
Press releases
Until now, it was hardly imaginable that manufacturing jobs could also be done in a home office. A research project in Saarland is now developing virtual workplaces for industry.
tagesschau.de, 28. Juli 2021
In the days of Corona, many who had an office job could work from their home office. However, fitters or production workers had to be on site – to the customer, to the construction site in the company. The ViSAAR research project wants to change that together with small and medium-sized companies.
SR 3 Saarlandwelle, 19. Juli 2021
The ViSAAR project is looking at how home office can work not only in the office, but also in industry. Together with three other institutes and a total of seven industry partners, the Digitalization Institute will be working on this over the next three years. The research project was presented in the current report of Saarländischer Rundfunk with the topic Working of the Future in Industry.
SR Mediathek, 14. Juli 2021
Implementing remote working in industry is the goal of the ViSAAR research project. Together with partners from industry and research, the August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute has been working on this goal since May until 2024. The managing director of iso e.V. spoke with the Saarbrücker Zeitung about the pilot project.
Saarbrücker Zeitung, 18. Juni 2021
Partners
FUNDING NOTICE
The ViSAAR project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.