AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER SLOVAKIA IN 2014

1. AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER SLOVAKIA IN 2014

2. ACS Establishment and Policy AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER WEST SLOVAKIA - founded by City of Trnava and Trnava Municipality Region in 2007, renamed to AUTOMOTIVE CLUSTER SLOVAKIAin 2013. THE MISSION - to help SMEs to be successful and competitive in automotive industry chains. THE VISION - to create network and critical mass of relevant subjects to improve the quality of human resources, but also to support technology transfer and innovation processes mainly but not only in automotive industry.

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4. ACS Members • Educationalinstitutions • STU FacultyofMaterialScience and Technology • UniversityofSs. Cyril and Metodius • SecondaryVocationalSchool Senica • SecondaryTechnicalVocationalSchool Galanta • Instituteofmaterials and machinemechanicsSAV • Innovationscentres, agencies and chambersof • commerce, • Get On Bratislava • Slovak- German Chamber of Commerce andIndustry • Enterprices • Nebotra s.r.o. • COMAX TT, a.s. • EMERSON, divízia Branson • SimPlanOptimalization • TSU Piešťany š.p. • MAKINO spol. s r. o. • Švec a spol. s r.o. • Služba Nitra výrobné družstvo • WIGO s.r.o • Kvant spol. s.r.o. • Dipex spol. s.r.o. • ANEX • FORM Engineering s.r.o. • Bornet s.r.o. • Automotive Group SK spol. s r.o • Qintec s.r.o. • Carisch s.r.o. • CarlZeissspol, s.r.o. • ProPsy - RWS, s.r.o. • Profi Tlač, Pavol Skubeň • Zväz strojárskeho priemyslu SR • Technodat, CAE-systémy, s.r.o. • MAPRO Slovakia s.r.o. • c2i s.r.o. • CCN Castings.r.o • Matador Industries a.s. • InekonSystems, s.r.o. • CRT-ELECTRONIC, spol. s.r.o. • RTU EUROPE s.r.o. • Trenkwaldera.s • STUBA Green team

5. ACS StrategicObjectives PEOPLE/EDUCATION AUTOMOTIVE ACADEMY INNOVATIONS/ TECHNOLGY TRANSFER HORIZON 2020 + CBC PROJECTS FOR SMEs SERVICES FOR SMEs

6. ACS Role and Scope of Activities • Networking of members ( membership in Automotive IndustryAssociation crossborder cooperation, B2B, longstanding international cooperation) • Exchange of experience, informing(Education, R&D, Horizon 2020) • Projects implementation (crossborders, CE, SEE, preparation for new programme) • Organizationof thematic workshops for SMEs and OEMs • Presentation of cluster members in the framework of cluster activities (international conferences, workshops, ) • Experience with preparation, submission, managingand implementation of projects cofounded by various EU programe • Education activities (Automotive Academy –wide portfolio of professional courses) • Horizont 2020 (opportunity for new project ideas, partnership and cooperation)

7. ACS Experiences in EU Projects Role of AKS in successfully implemented projects cofounded by EU: As Lead Partner As Project Partner

8. ACS Participation in EU Projects PPs: DouaisienneDeBasseTension, CommuneDeDouaiFrance, TU GabrovoBulgaria, ACWS Slovakia, BatzSociedadCooperativa, FundacionTecnaliaResearch & InnovationSpain, InstituteofCommunication and ComputerSystemsGreece, CentroRicerche Fiat ScpaItaly Duration: 10/2012-09/2012 OP: FP7 LP: DBT, France The objective is to foster the democratization of EVin the urbanenvironment by developing an easier and more comfortable charging solution which will enable to ease the EVuse by the large public and facilitate their implementation in theurban grid. PPs: FachhochschulstudiengängeBurgenland, EnergyConsortiumofBratislava,TrnavaRegion, AutomotiveCluster - WestSlovakia, Slovak UniversityofTechnologyBratislava Duration: 08/2012 - 12/2014 OP:CB A-SK LP:Technologieoffensive Burgenland, Austria Themaingoalis to develop usablesolutions for the construction of new buildings that can be taken infullest possible use of available resources. Production, testing and exploring renewable energy carriers from regionalavailable biogenic sources, as well as waste for the transport (mobility) and at recovery. PP: Moravian-SilesianAutomotiveCluster,CZ Duration: 11/2013- 10/2014 OP: CB SK-CZ LP: AutomotiveCluster Slovakia The main objective of the project is to ensure the correct orientation and a skilled workforce for the purpose of applying in a wide range of automotive industry in order to promote economic development and increasing employment in Trnavas region and the Moravian-Silesian

9. Offer Demand Portal • Benefits for the award of offers • and demands • Openspacefor SMEsfor their • growth and increase competitiveness • Support in innovating technologicalprocesses and production lines and the transfer of scientific and research activities to members • Organize,design and implementation of projects specified business sector • Conducting research and development tasks according to the needs of the automotive industry • Create customer approach of science and research in relation to the business • Sphere and improvement and effectiveness of collaboration between research and business sector

10. Automotive Academy Objectives: • To improve management skills and knowledge of professionals and managers working in the several areas automotive industry management, • To apply the principle of combining theoretical knowledge and practical experience, • To provide training courses with top instructors in the three pillars.

11. Automotive Academy 3 Pillars TOP MAMAGEMENT– aimsofthispillar are: to improve management skills and knowledge of specialists and managers in several areas of management, to acquire knowledge of the international legal system and so on. WHITE COLLARS - Provides lifelong education and training. These courses are tailored for managers , mastersofvocationaltraining, headsof production lines , sellers - sales skills and sales techniques, and alsogeneral knowledge of finance, law , human resource management or marketing and not only in theory but also in practical terms BLUE COLLARS – covers life-long education, career development and retraining of ordinary workers in the automotive industry.

12. 3D Additive Manufacturing Horizon 2020 • Introduction of emerging technologies – 3D AM • The development of qualitatively new kinds of metal products using 3D printing , especially : • Treatment of refractory materials , safety studies and recommendations • Manufacture of the composite heterogeneous products • Refining materials that can interconnect sintering • Applying Sintered carbide tools area • Creating composites with desired friction properties • Powder grain size and parameters of laser sintering - focus, power , • speed , features • Ensure through the pores of the panel surface and the lubricant supply • to the friction • Looking for cooperation: • Universities, automotive and aerospace industries , especially SMEs .

13. ACS Innovations - SimPlant Development of new projectforinnovativesolutionfortrafficconceptplanning of largeplantareasbased on ICT technology and simulation SW - 1. Main targets: • To use ICT from CARS 2020& SW components for collecting information and creating predictive testing and simulationtool for new traffic concepts with focus on: • material flow into production, • empty buffers flow out of production, • products flow out of production, • collecting transport data into virtual simulation environment • creating simulation object library for flexible processing of information flow • creating simulation object library for modeling and visualization of real time vehicle • movement in plant structure • creating statistical tools for measuring of logistics and traffic processes

14. ACS Innovations - SimPlant • 2. Main benefitsoftheproject: • Spacebalancing and floorutilisation in plantarea • better and quickerlogisticplanning in plantarea • complexproblemsolvingbased on realdata and simulationenvironment • optimisation of transport movements in plantarea • collectingdataforprediction to avoidextremetraficcases in plant • reductionofstoppagesofvehicles • reductionofdoublehandlingwithemptybuffers in plants • predictionofcollisionpoints and optimizationofrouteplan in plantarea • 3. Customers of the project-looking for cooperation: • automotive manufacturers (plants of OEMs) • automotive suppliers • large factories (factories of the future)

15. Automotive without Borders ACS responded to a call at the CBC Programme SR-CR. The main objective of the project is to ensure the correct orientation and a skilled workforce for the purpose of applying in a wide range of automotive industry in order to promote economic development and increasing employment in Trnavas region and the Moravian-Silesian region. Main partner: Moravian-Silesian Atomotive Cluster The specific objectives of the project: Develop the skills of human capital on the basis of sustainable cooperation between academies automotive clusters Create new forms of cooperation in education between companies and secondary technical schools Acquire knowledge about the needs of human capital in membership of both clusters Improve cluster management with a focus on SMEs membership growth

16. Services for SMEs • 1. Strengthen the cooperation between producers and suppliers • regularly organized conferences OEM and suppliers, international conferences2. Automotive Academy • educational courses • seminars3. Legislation • labor law • technical and traffic regulations • environmental legislation • financial regulations 4. EU projects for SMEs

17. Services for SMEs • 6. Offer-Demand WEB portal • for collaboration in research, HR and business areas • 7. Workshops for automotive subcontractors • in partnership with ZAP SR, we ran a series of workshops / meetings of manufacturers (PSA, KIA, VW) for automotive subcontractors.The introductory workshop organized 13.11.2012 in Trnava. • 8. Consultancy of project activities • consultation on current project calls – Simplan • 9. Startupsupport • RTU EuropeLtd. • STU BA Green Team

18. Thank you for your attention Contactdetails : Roman Bíro PhD. Automotive Cluster Slovakia Address: Hlavná 5, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia E-mail: biro@autoklaster.sk Phone: +421910777887 www.autoklaster.sk