Friday, December 9, 2011

Civil Engineer at Ground Zero

"A project in which everyone wants a say"
Michael Stein is the Swabian engineer - responsible for the receipt of
the new World Trade Center in New York. The special thing about this
job? The cable net facade with Kevlar ropes. And that the whole world
is watching the outcome.

All had gone as expected, sitting Michael Stone, 43, not here: in the
middle of Manhattan, in the 24th Stock one of the many skyscrapers in
the 8th Avenue. He wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. On
his desk are blueprints, protractor and calculator. Concentrated, he
paints with a pencil sketch on one of the plans, then the phone rings.
Here is the New York branch of the Civil engineering studio Schlaich
Berger and Partners, a Swabian family business with headquarters in
Stuttgart. Stone has built the office almost single-handedly. His
assignment: the World Trade Center building one.
"It is all very happy together," says Stein, "and it's great that we
can help build on the 1 World Trade Center." Stein and his team that
is actually already out of the race, because they compete for the
revival of the terrorist scene Ground Zero only occupied second place.
The winner was the star architect Daniel Libeskind.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

New goods distribution center opens


Shipment of finished goods is now the location of Seefeld
In the heart of the distribution from right to left: Thomas Creuzberger (Managing Movianto Germany GmbH), Dr. Rainer Guggenberger (Chief Research & Development, 3M ESPE AG), tungsten Gum (mayor in Seefeld), Harald Gadsche (Supply Chain Manager)
In the heart of the distribution from right to left: Thomas Creuzberger (Managing Movianto Germany GmbH), Dr. Rainer Guggenberger (Chief Research & Development, 3M ESPE AG), tungsten Gum (mayor in Seefeld), Harald Gadsche (Supply Chain Manager)

(BUSINESS WIRE) Seefeld, 9/13/2011, 600,000 job positions, the distribution center from 3M ESPE is facing a year and rising. The transfer of goods distribution and transport services to Seefeld has made the logistics of 3M ESPE products faster and more efficiently while protecting the environment.

Are our processes and systems is still the right ones? Answering this question is for the optimal supply chain is as important as for other divisions. With this conviction took the 3M ESPE their logistics concept to finished goods under the microscope, as Peter Cabell, who led the project with Marco Deiss Beck reported. By shifting the distribution of finished goods at Würzburg Kist back to headquarters in Seefeld, the measure could now be completed.

The former ESPE Dental AG had decided in 1999 to outsource their distribution, a decision that the company saved the construction of a new warehouse: The specialized pharmaceutical logistics provider Movianto GmbH took in his camp Kist goods delivery for ESPE in Europe. "Have now, two factors changed radically," said Cabell, "the one we could halve including the use of lean manufacturing and management methods, our stocks, even though revenue has grown since the former restructuring by more than 100 percent. It also means significant increase in goods movements. Second, the ordering behavior of our customers changed significantly. During the 1999 deliveries to 80 percent were performed on pallets, there are now about 75 percent of packages. "

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

lean thinking in civil engineering

Hello, I would a debate on lean thinking in civil engineering and related fields, additional contributors are welcome!