BIG BREAKTHROUGH FOR TRIBOFORM ENGINEERING
(February 25, 2016) This
week marks the official launch of the software product from TriboForm
Engineering, a University of Twente start-up. Launching customers Volvo,
Mercedes-Benz, and Skoda develop components such as automotive bonnets and
doors using software produced by the fast-growing start-up from Enschede.
Director and founder Jan Harmen Wiebenga calls it a dream. ‘When we see those
cars on the road, we realize we contributed to making them. That gives us a
great feeling.’
Demand for the TriboForm software is tremendous. The
start-up now serves a large part of the European automotive industry. TriboForm
produces software packages for friction modelling and predicting tribological
behaviour. Tribology is a branch of mechanical engineering that describes the
contact between materials under different conditions. The software is used in
the development and production of new automotive parts.
The official launch of the product will take place this week
in Germany, the heart of the global automotive industry. TriboForm will launch
the product at the Triboforum 2016, a triennial industry conference. The
company will do so together with the principal engineers from Daimler AG, the
parent company of Mercedes-Benz. At the request of the Volkswagen group, a
pre-presentation of the software was held in Hannover with experts from
Porsche, Seat, Audi, Volkswagen and Skoda. It shows the great interest for the
software.