Technological Initiative Pilsen

The opening ceremony of the new hall took place on Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00pm in Tachov. Milan Chovanec, Governor of the Pilsen Region, attended the ceremony. Also attending the event from the representatives of TIP was the General Secretary, Mr. Pavel Duchek.

The new hall will provide work for 190 employees. More than 10 million Euro were invested in new buildings and production equipment. The purpose of the hall is to produce seats for the automotive sector using the latest technology. The new production facility has serial assembly lines, including test equipment for the complete installation of suspension seats, and one production line for the complete assembly of static seats.

A meeting between the chairman of TIP, Mr. Johannes Heidecker, and the general secretary, Mr. Pavel Duchek, with representatives from the German-Czech Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as Mr. Richard Brunner, head of the office of IHK Regensburg in Cham and Mrs. Karla Zajíčková, head of the regional office in Pilsen, was held on Oct. 2, 2012 in IHK´s office in Pilsen.

Both sides agreed that mutual cooperation could be very beneficial, and joint projects were determined. The first of them will be a collaboration on the project Pilsen 2015, the second project will be a common meeting of German and Czech firms and universities, and the last project will focus on management training in intercultural skills for Czech companies.

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The first regular meeting of members, as well as others interested in TIP, took place at 7:30pm on Sept. 27, 2012 at the Stará Sladovna restaurant in Pilsen.

TIPClub will be held the last Thursday of every month. This activity will be an opportunity for informal discussion among participants and for meeting new people.

The general meeting took place at 8:30am on Sept. 10, 2012 in Pilsen. The program of the general meeting was the adoption of new members. The general meeting voted on this matter and decided that ZF Engineering Plzeň and GRAMMER CZ would become members of TIP.

The main goal of the meeting, which took place on Jun. 25, 2012 at the company ZF Engineering Plzeň, was to determine the basic steps of the project „Joint Purchasing“. Energy purchasing was chosen as a pilot project.

The fifth TIP meeting took place at 12:30pm on Jun. 14, 2012 in Stod. The meeting was organized by Mr. Jürgen Heidel (CEO of SWA).

SWA develops and manufactures tools, machines and complete lines for the production of non-metallic interior car equipment and acoustic parts.

All participants in the meeting were informed about the establishment of TIP and received the founding documents. Subsequently, Mr. Heidel presented his company and took participants on a factory tour. Next on the agenda was a discussion about a common topic – resource sharing. It was decided that the project „Joint purchasing“ would be launched. Several ideas for joint purchasing were identified, including electricity, cellular phones, paper, gas, etc.

The association of legal entities Technological Initiative Pilsen was registered with IR 72568135 on Jun. 13, 2012 by the Regional Office of the Pilsen Region. The seat of TIP was determined to be Žižkova Street 52, 301 00 Pilsen.

The statutes were signed by the founding members of the association at the first general meeting of TIP. The meeting took place on May 9, 2012 in Žižkova 52, Pilsen. The founding members were EvoBus Bohemia, MECAS ESI, GOLDRATT CZ and the Blue Projects Agency.

The following bodies of TIP were also determined:

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board – Mr. Johannes Heidecker

Vice-President of the Board – Mr. Pavel Majer

Member of the Board – Mr. Karel Luňáček

General Secretary – Mr. Pavel Duchek

Auditor – Mrs. Jana Christová

EvoBus opened a new production facility on Mar. 26, 2012 in Holýšov. The cost of construction was more than 5.4 million euros, and the construction itself took 12 months. Its area is 5,600 square meters. Representatives of TIP used this opportunity to present the association.

During the ceremony, Andreas Peter, director of the manufacturing and engineering associations EvoBus GmbH and Axel Stokinger, CEO of EvoBus Bohemia, handed over a symbolic key to the hall to the director of the factory in Holýšov, Reiner Springmeier. The ceremony was also attended by a representative of the city, the Mayor of Holýšov, Antonín Pazour.

At the same time, there was a presentation of examples of new technologies from Daimler AG, including the new Mercedes-Benz Citaro C2 city bus, electric drive transporter Mercedes-Benz eVito, new Actros tractor, Zetros off-road truck and personal vehicle S-Class with hybrid drive.

The fourth meeting took place at 11:30am on Mar. 8, 2012 in the Hotel Purkmistr, Pilsen. The meeting was organized by Mr. Karel Luňáček (CEO of MECAS ESI) and Mr. Pavel Majer (Managing Partner of GOLDRATT CZ).

The TIP meeting started with a presentation of both companies. MECAS ESI provides technical support and consultations for crash simulation tests, the field of passive safety, production processes of forming, casting, welding and heat treatment, as well as vibroacoustics example, flow and electromagnetic compatibility. GOLDRATT CZ delivers integrated projects aimed at increasing the profitability of the enterprise. For this purpose, the firm primarily uses Theory of Constraints methods (Theory of Constraints, TOC) and others. GOLDRATT CZ is part of a global collaboration of firms covered by Goldratt Consulting in Israel.

The presentation of MECAS ESI was also focused on R&D topics. The name of the presentation by GOLDRATT CZ was „Insights into Resource Management and Sharing“. The result of this presentation was a discussion about sharing resources between future members of TIP.