Industry partners and projects

Based on a cooperation agreement, we have been working with the Frankfurt-based consulting firm Campana & Schott for many years on our topics: Digital Transformation, Digital Workplace and Artificial Intelligence.

Every year, we jointly conduct a practice-oriented study on current topics, including the highly regarded »Social Collaboration Study« or the practice report »Artificial Intelligence: AI Applications in Marketing, Sales and Product Management«.

The collaborative AI Experience Report (opens in new tab) was published in 2022 and contains current use cases as well as challenges in the application of artificial intelligence in product management, marketing and sales.

The exchange is enriched by the lectures of Dr. Eric Schott and Boris Ovcak as part of our courses at TU, while Prof. Peter Buxmann inspires, sets impulses and creates new knowledge through lectures at company events and webinars of Campana & Schott.

Within our joint innovation alliance, the focus is on carrying out research projects with an emphasis on the digitization of processes and business models as well as the possible use of artificial intelligence.

As a member of the »Connected Mobility« working group, we develop prototypes that demonstrate the potential of machine learning on the basis of big data and thus further advance demand-driven mobility. In addition, we support our project partner in introducing AI-based applications within the company and operating them sustainably.

Deutsche Bahn, as a strategic cooperation partner, also provides our students with real access to practice: They can gain insights into the highly topical challenges of Deutsche Bahn within the scope of final theses in order to investigate solution approaches more concretely.

We have been working with Fujitsu for over ten years on the basis of a cooperation agreement in the area of digital transformation. Our topics have ranged from cloud computing to artificial intelligence.

One focus of our collaboration has always been the concrete use of these technologies in companies – regardless of industry and company size. For the past ten years, we have held the annual event »IT Business meets Science«: At each event, two scientists and two representatives from the field report on their topics and experiences. This special exchange, which has already attracted up to 300 participants, is experienced by both sides as a real »win-win«.

Another steady part of this cooperation are regular internal workshops with our PhD students, students and Fujitsu employees. In these workshops, Fujitsu employees learn about the latest findings from science, while the doctoral and undergraduate students gain a better understanding of the challenges from business practice in relation to their topics through this exchange and can »ground« their work in this way.

IT-Business meets Science 2021 (opens in new tab) (video in German): Hybrid Intelligence and Services

IT-Business meets Science 2020 (opens in new tab) (video in German): Quantum computing and artificial intelligence

Since 2015, we have been cooperating with Heraeus Consulting & IT Solutions GmbH on student software projects and theses. Since then, we have continuously expanded the range of topics and activities.

Today, the cooperation with Heraeus includes numerous joint research and development projects, innovation initiatives, final theses and knowledge transfer in the field of digitalization and Industry 4.0.

Examples include projects on AI solutions in quality management, lectures by Prof. Buxmann at Heraeus events, or guest lectures and seminars by Heraeus managers and colleagues at Technical University of Darmstadt.

In addition, we have been successfully bringing start-ups together with Heraeus experts for many years – together with the Heraeus Innovation Department – to create innovations that are experienced as a real benefit by both sides.

We cooperate closely with Porsche SE in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The project started with the two courses on artificial intelligence, in which Dr. Dominik Jung shares his knowledge on the realization of artificial intelligence with our students.

The collaboration is currently being expanded to further include research and knowledge transfer: Since January 2022, in close cooperation with Porsche, we have welcomed our external doctoral student Nicole Namyslo. She is working on the use of artificial intelligence in companies and is investigating the extent to which companies can exploit the potential of artificial intelligence for business processes in a structured way.

As part of the AI 1 & 2 lectures of Dr. Dominik Jung , we are deepening our cooperation by helping to shape the capstone project from Porsche that the students are working on.

Through this cooperation, we enable students to deal with real business problems and real-world process data from Porsche, to exchange ideas with Porsche’s AI experts, and to develop a suitable AI solution.

Not only do the students benefit from the experts, but Porsche also gains new perspectives on known problems through alternative approaches and prototypes developed by our students.

In order to promote the implementation of an internal digitalization strategy at Porsche and inspire those responsible, Prof. Peter Buxmann also supported Porsche with a keynote speech on the topics of digitalization and artificial intelligence.

We have a long-standing partnership with the medium-sized and internationally active software provider Serviceware SE from Idstein, which includes both research and teaching.

Based on a cooperation agreement, we jointly address topics from the service industry and from the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

In 2019, we jointly founded the Serviceware AI Lab in Darmstadt: Today, fifteen permanent employees work as data scientists, software developers and AI experts at the Lab with free access to courses at TU Darmstadt.

The cooperation also includes guest lectures by the founder and CEO Dirk Martin at the Technical University of Darmstadt as well as lectures by Prof. Peter Buxmann at Serviceware SE company events.

In cooperation, final theses are jointly advertised that introduce current and practice-relevant topics into the students' academic work. Furthermore, Serviceware SE participates with its own software projects in our annual »IT internship« course.