Research about BMW innovation

Research about BMW innovation

BMW wants to reduction in emissions and maximisation of product safety ( BMW is working to obtains a completly emissions free vehicles. They are only of eficcient Dynamics Programe.

Innovation for our responsability:

- Completly emissions-free vehicles

-Prevent accidents (with safety features) and mitigate their affects (with passive   

safety sistem)

-Resource-efficient prduction and hight recycling and resuse standard that close

the materials cycle as much as possible. (drive now car-sharing service)

Efficient Dynamics Programe:

-Integrate innovative, eviciency-enhancing technologyes in to all BMW models.

-Improve fuel efficiency by gradually ellectrifying drive trains and producing

comprehensive Hibrid solutions.

-In the long term, vehicles powered by cells/Hidrogen technology could be a

further potential solution for local emissions-free driving.

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/svr_2012/produktverantwortung.html

Inovation with Group Dialoge

BMW is working with diferent Stakeholders around the world.  BMW Group promotes the exchange of ideas at global multinational level. BMW Guggenheim Lab is a tink thank that is scheduled to stop in on fewer than nine megacities worldwide over the next six year.

BMW have 14 research centrums arround the world: http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/forschung_entwicklung/netzwerk/standorte/index.html

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/whats_next/null_emissionen.html

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/svr_2012/umweltschutz.html

Demographic change

BMW is investigating how what can be more efficient older workers. Come to an aging population, They believe that instead of a problem can be an opportunity.

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/whats_next/demografischer_wandel.html

Sustainable movility

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/whats_next/nachhaltige_mobilitaet.html

Only renewable energy

The objective of BMW is to run factories only on renewable energies.

Thay wants approach to steadily save energy and increase the percentage of renewable energies we use in production:

(Examples of that volunty)

-  The BMW plant in Rosslyn, South Africa uses more than 70 solar collectors on its roof to supply most of the hot water it needs in its paint shop.

-  And in Munich they use solar energy to generate electricity – with some 3,660 photovoltaic modules mounted on the roof of the BMW Welt.

-  In the Research and Innovation Centre in Munich we recover the brake and heat energy from our engine test benches. In this way they can save 4,500 megawatt hours of energy per year – which is equal to about 3,500 tons of CO2.

-  Changing the settings on their employees’ PCs they have saved around 27,000 megawatt hours a year – the equivalent of 13,500 tons of CO2.

-The plants in Spartanburg and Leipzig are currently testing the possibility of using wind energy to generate electricity – while the Dingolfing plant plans to use biomass for heating purposes.

They are working to the day that all of your energy requirements from renewable sources.

Recycling

All over the world the BMW Group has taken measures to reach the 100% goal by recycling waste as well as avoiding it in the first place:

(for example)

-  They return all scrap from our press shops directly to the steel producers – so that they can melt it down to make new metal.

-  They use less and less wax and film to protect the surfaces of your new vehicles during delivery by using closed freight cars for rail transportation.

-  At the Leipzig plant they filter tiny metal pieces out of vacuum cleaner bags – so that these can be reused later.

The same approach also applies to conserving water.

(for example)

BMW engine plant in Steyr in Austria they generate zero liters of process wastewater. A closed water cycle and complex filter systems ensure not a single drop is wasted.

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/verantwortung/whats_next/recycling.html

The Smarth Cars

Connectivity to web servers, Real-Time Traffic Information in combination with a networked navigation system, the integration of vehicle-specific apps with mobile end devices, the BMW Head-Up Display or the Emergency Call function – these and other features of BMW ConnectedDrive offer drivers everywhere a host of incomparable mobility services.

The consolidation of onboard (services in the vehicle) and offboard contents (information that is computed externally and sent to the vehicle as needed) is progressing at a rapid pace in the automotive segment. The automobile is actually becoming a mobile Internet exchange point. The software required for the man-machine interface is developed internally by the software engineers of the BMW Group.

In conclusion

BMW wants reduce the climate effects of their products, production and selling with renewable energy and the recicling.  Also wants to improve the work conditions of their most old employees and ask their opinion for improve their products and eficiency. Finally BMW wants improve the use of their products with smart conectivity.