Engineering | innovation | Fuel cells are seen as a great hope when it comes to efficient propulsion technologies for the future. The idea behind them is already around 180 years old - but today they are used primarily in modern submarines. To make submarines cheaper, more powerful and efficient in the future, the marine specialists at thyssenkrupp are currently working on the fourth generation of fuel cells. This is to be used as standard equipment from next year.

Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | Engineering | innovation | trends of technology | The TechCenter Control Technology in Munich is the birthplace of innovative digital solutions. The system solutions developed here make use of numerous elements of digitalization - such as mechatronics, simulation and data analysis.

Automotive-sector | Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | Imagine, how much easier and safer car sharing would be, if in the future you could easily check via app whether a car is accident-free or not? Hidden damage, which car dealers like to gloss over, would be visible at a glance and the consumer would be on the safe side!

Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | innovation | Smart factory | We all use apps every day as a matter of course - for entertainment, online banking or to read the news. But why should apps only simplify our private lives? At thyssenkrupp we already use them in many areas of our company. In addition to the "easy entry" software, Materials Services has developed another customer app: "easy supply". This means: faster reordering of the required materials - "easy" via smartphone!

Digitalisation and industry 4.0 | Engineering | future of production | innovation | Smart factory | trends of technology | Technology has never before developed so fast as it does today. One trend replaces the next - that won’t change in 2020 either. Analog and digital worlds are merging, vast amounts of data provide the foundation for pinpoint production decisions, companies are merging digitally, product and production are in digital dialogue. Industry 4.0. thyssenkrupp is already using the Top Tech Trends of 2020.

Career at thyssenkrupp | Corporate culture | People at thyssenkrupp | Sibylle May is on the list of Germany’s Top 100 Out Executives 2019 – a list of lesbian, gay, bi-, trans- and intersexual people from German industry who are out and enjoy professional success.