Those Were the Days!

Fancy a journey back in time and across oceans? In automotive terms, the United States of America, Japan, and South Korea were quasi-isolated worlds – with brands that have, in many cases, long since ceased to exist.

Protection During Thunderstorms

“Lightning conductors” ensure that lightning strikes have no negative consequences. The need for external and internal lightning protection depends on what a building is used for and its specific structural conditions.

Car Brands: Making Automotive History

Car manufacturers such as Borgward, Glas, and NSU are still familiar to many people today. But how is it that these greats have all disappeared from the market? A foray through brand history with classic car expert Andreas Lahne from DEKRA Classic Services.

If Not Us, Then Who …

In a world of uncertainties, DEKRA is facing new challenges. In an interview with DEKRA solutions, the new DEKRA CEO Stan Zurkiewicz talks about the defining issues of our times and new possibilities for transformation.

Road Bridges: Over the Top

Road bridges are imposing structures. Both the longest and the highest are located in China, the largest in France. And some bridges even sport restaurants, Ferris wheels, or kites.

DEKRA: Focus on Future Topics

For almost 100 years, DEKRA has been striving for more safety and security on the road, at work, and at home. At the IAA TRANSPORTATION, the expert organization showed its solutions for a safe commercial vehicle world.

What a Showstopper!

As a theater professional, Felix Malkowski likes to take a leading role on stage. Yet he does not expect applause from the stands and stalls. His role is to ensure the safety of the event technology – and the DEKRA expert tends to take over the entire theater to do so. He is currently on duty at the Munich Kammerspiele.

The Biofidelic Dummy – Only Human, too?

When biomechanist Andreas Schäuble stages crash tests with cyclists, the test usually ends with broken bones and torn ligaments. The fact that the dummy’s injuries as well as the damage to the car come very close to reality is also due to the concept of the new biofidelic dummy. The DEKRA expert explains what this is all about.

Recreational Boats are Popular

The number of new recreational boats is steadily increasing worldwide. But the increase in recreational skippers and their boats in all size classes results in more boat breakdowns and accidents. DEKRA’s DEKRAmaritim department must also prepare for this.

Hot Times: Dealing with extreme Heat

Heat waves are becoming the norm in Europe now, too. Summer temperatures above 40 degrees are no longer an exception in many countries. What should you bear in mind in the face of extreme heat – both in your private life and at work?

Rescue Sheet Saves Lives – Completely Analog

Modern safety technologies effectively reduce the risk of injury in traffic accidents. But if, in serious cases, occupants do become trapped in the vehicle, it can make their rescue more difficult. This is where the rescue sheet provides an important service – and it is still in analog form.

Your Data, Please!

Vehicle data is a well-guarded secret. The new European data law is intended to ensure transparency – and could raise police work when recording accidents in Europe to a new level. In the future, regulated access to vehicle data will also be essential for accident analysis and vehicle testing.

Going high for the Energy Revolution

Wind power and photovoltaic are the key technologies for the energy revolution. But in terms of availability, they are not always a safe bet. The wind gods are capricious – sometimes there is too much energy, sometimes there is too little. Therefore, we need sustainable technologies that store surplus electricity and make it available when needed.

Auto Repair Shops – An Industry Looking for a Future

Digitization and electromobility will permanently change the workshop industry. In the workshop of the future, mechatronics engineers will no longer need to get their hands dirty. But how will processes change when flying cars land at workshops for inspection? In reality, the future of the industry has already begun.

Climate Change in Numbers

The Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, shows what can already be observed in many regions around the world: Climate change is here. More than 230 authors from 66 countries evaluated and summarized over 14,000 scientific papers on climate research. An overview.

DEKRA Award: Scoring Points with Safety

The DEKRA Award 2021 was bestowed on four organizations for their top achievements in the name of safety. In the “Startups” category, the young Swiss company Lakera makes artificial intelligence (AI) safer.

Future Trends – Quo Vadis, Logistics?

Sind Cloud, Big Data, Roboter und Künstliche Intelligenz die Zukunft der Logistik? Aktuelle Studien deuten an, dass die Welt in 20 Jahren für Logistiker nicht einfacher wird. Trotzdem lohnt es sich, neue Trends mit wachen Augen zu verfolgen. Dann bleibt genug Zeit, die eigenen Unternehmensziele, Ressourcen und Prozesse auf Vordermann zu bringen.

Take a Look at the DEKRA solutions Magazine 1/2022

The COP26 world climate conference in Glasgow showed that global warming, extreme weather events, and the necessary countermeasures concern us all. Countries, businesses and individuals are called upon to act. The current issue of DEKRA solutions is dedicated to the fight against climate change and focuses on the consequences of climate change.

Supply Bottlenecks threaten Global Trade

Empty supermarket shelves in the UK, Europe-wide supply bottlenecks for everything from refrigerators to notebooks and PC components, delivery times of 10 to 18 months for new cars from German premium manufacturers or custom-made bicycles – global commodity trading has come to a standstill. For many reasons.

Visual Impairment: A New Take on Navigation

What if you simply closed your eyes, blindly opened Google Maps on your smartphone, and tried to navigate from A to B? Such an attempt would surely go wrong. But for blind and visually impaired people, such limitations are part of everyday life. Can digital technologies really support users with handicaps? Can AI replace seeing-eye dogs?

Qualify Staff for Vacancies

REWE, Germany's second-largest food retailer, works together with DEKRA Akademie to qualify people from different nations for the retail and logistics sectors.

Acoustic Cameras: Noise Detectives in Action

Occupational safety, building acoustics, industry: When noise becomes a problem and conventional analysis methods fail, acoustic cameras can help.

Advancing into the Digital Age with Security

DEKRA isn’t just pushing ahead with internationalization but is also investing heavily in digitization and sustainability. In an interview with DEKRA solutions, the new DEKRA board members Ulrike Hetzel and Stan Zurkiewicz explain what will matter in the future.

DEKRA solutions Magazine 2/2021

E-Mobility has arrived in many countries. It is estimated that nearly 11 million e-cars were already on the world`s roads in 2020. And the trend is steeply upwards. It seems that the great era of e-mobility is beginning. For DEKRA, e-mobility is a mission with a perspective: to be sustainable, environmentally friendly, and, above all, safe.

Elevators: Technical Showcase

Elevators make life easier, sometimes even more impressive or oppressive. But there’s one thing they all need to be: safe.

Travel: We’re Taking to the Skies Again

Normality is still a long way off in the aviation sector. But demand for national and international connections is on the rise. Passengers have to keep a few things in mind.

Sustainability: Soccer Sets an Example

More and more sports clubs are focusing on holistic sustainability and looking at economic as well as social and ecological issues. The sustainClub is a recognized sustainability standard that provides orientation in professional soccer. Six clubs can boast this award from DEKRA.

Electric Car: Always Charged to the Max?

Driving requires energy – and that applies to electric cars just as much as it does to combustion engines. However, different rules apply at the electric charging station than at the diesel or gasoline pump. What does “filling up” actually mean with regards to an electric car? Does it use alternating current or direct current? And when is the best time to pull the plug? We asked DEKRA experts.

Electric Car: The Power Comes from the Cell

Range is the holy grail of electromobility. It determines whether an electric car is perceived as a fully-fledged vehicle. In the competition for best energy source, the lithium-ion battery currently holds the best cards. Speaking in favor of this battery type is its good ratio between weight and range.

Superheroes in the Name of “Vision Zero”

They get bumped, hurled and hit - all in the name of safety. Dummies provide important insights in a wide array of crash-, sled-, and catapult facilities as well as test rigs at the DEKRA Crash Test Center in Neumünster and the DEKRA Automotive Test Center in Klettwitz.

Spectacular Buildings: Worth a Second Look

Spectacular buildings can be landmarks and monuments, they can set standards for creativity and engineering achievements, for sustainability and the use of new materials. Above all, spectacular buildings can be found all over the world and even in space. Here’s our selection for you.

Supercomputer – Chasing Records

Supercomputers teach autonomous cars to drive, calculate the optimal shape of wind turbine rotor blades, and accurately predict the weather. The new superstar of the scene bears the name Leonardo and is setting a breathtaking pace. But even this supercomputer wouldn’t stand a chance against a quantum computer.

How Corona Changes the World

Nothing has changed the world more quickly or profoundly in recent decades than Corona. We provide an overview of short- and long-term changes.

DEKRA solutions Magazine 1/2021

Whether at work or en-route – in many places we have been wearing respiratory masks since the corona pandemic. DEKRA takes a close look at them in the test laboratory. Not only wearing masks is now part of everyday life, but also video conferencing or online ordering. The current DEKRA solutions issue shows how the world of work and mobility behavior are changing rapidly.

New Work: “Actively tackling opportunities”

Immense changes are characterizing the world of work. Professor Heike Bruch talks agility and the courage to rethink.

Business Call: Successful Online Communication

From home office to “Zoom fatigue” - business communication has undergone rapid changes, and video conferencing has become part of everyday life. But the quality often leaves a lot to be desired. There’s optimization potential in more than just the technology.

Livable Cities – from Dortmund to Tokyo

The greenest, the most dynamic, the most bike-friendly – every year, different international institutions select cities for particularly life-worthy qualities. DEKRA solutions presents five of these locations.

Pharmalogistics – How Drugs Arrive Safely

In times of Corona, pharmaceutical logistics companies show impressive performance. The trends run towards more storage capacity and greater transport distances. In both cases, quality requirements are high. We spoke to the experts.

Corona Crisis: Making the Impossible Possible

Teamwork for supercomputers, production changeovers or accelerated testing processes: The Corona crisis brings out unusual ideas that wouldn’t have been conceivable in normal times.

Logistics industry proves strength in the corona crisis

Challenges in times of crisis show just how systemically relevant the transport and logistics industry is: The industry is closing its ranks and proves strength during the corona pandemic.

Key Skill: Emotional Intelligence

The coronavirus pandemic challenges the world every day. Emotional intelligence is a decisive factor for employees and bosses in the current crisis situation. This includes flexible action, but also other important skills.

DEKRA solutions Magazine 1/2020

Sustainability affects everyone - whether at home, on the road, or at work. In the current issue of DEKRA solutions you will learn more about the levels at which sustainability has an effect in the company, and how today's sustainable action determines the economic success of tomorrow. Read more about the possibilities on the way to a sustainable and safe world.

DEKRA solutions 3/2019

How will we get around in the future? What drive concepts will prevail and is the e-scooter really the best means of transport for short distances? The current DEKRA solutions will explore these questions. We invite you to dive in with us in the world of mobility.

Go with the Flow

James Cooke works as a Behavioural Leadership Coach in the middle of the North Sea, some 150 kilometres from the British coastline, on a platform producing hydrocarbons. For DEKRA, he reports on the perks and challenges of working in the waves.

With the License to Swing

The DEKRA playground testers are once again doing their rounds. Each spring, they commence their tour of Germany’s playgrounds and test the apparatus’ safety.

DEKRA solutions 2/2019

Safety goes above and beyond everything - especially with children. Did you know that around two-thirds of accidents happen in the home or on the playground? The current DEKRA solutions shows where dangers lurk for children and beats a wide arc from the silent killers at home to the risks of artificial intelligence such as Alexa and Co. Be curious.

Technology Around the Globe

Traveling by rail across the country, observing the world from a satellite view, reaching new planets… In these museums in Asia, America and Australia, you can discover exciting parts of technological progress.

A Tour through the Technology Temples of Europe

From the first automobile to the horse-drawn railway to exceptional flying machines and submarines: Europe’s museums lure with a variety of technological achievements. We have compiled the most exciting technology temples for you.

DEKRA solutions 1/2019

In the new world of work, place, time and the working relationship dissolve more and more. What does this mean for the employee? And what exactly characterizes an agile corporate culture? DEKRA solutions presents the trends in the new world of work and points out chances and risks.

A Stroll through Bad Homburg: Poets, Thinkers and the Mouse

Hölderlin, Dostojewski and the "Maus" know the Hessian city of Bad Homburg well. Situated at the gates of Frankfurt, it invites you to marvel and linger. It is not only beautiful here, but also safe.

Register Now: DEKRA solutions Newsletter

What does the world look like tomorrow? What do we do to ensure safe traffic? In the DEKRA solutions newsletter you will receive exclusive reportages, background information and exciting stories around mobility, security and innovation. Click here for registration.

DEKRA Solutions 3/2018

Yoghurt, wine and Co. are delivered by trucks. The world would grind to a halt without commercial vehicles. Furthermore, driver assistance systems provide a higher level of safety and networked vehicles provide a clever transport. DEKRA solutions presents most exceptional innovations and looks at the logistics sector of tomorrow.

Tracking the Damage

When damage has been done to the vehicle, it's usually about a lot of money. Now a professional report is necessary. In the DEKRA education center engineers and car masters are trained to become damage-professionals.

One Ticket To Space, Please

Fancy escaping Earth’s gravity and enjoying the view of the “blue sphere” from orbit? It’s already a possibility, albeit one with a hefty price tag.

Mission Intermission

Staying contactable around the clock, checking emails every hour when on vacation – it’s impossible in the Spiti valley in the Indian Himalayas. Nicole Graaf undergoes a digital detox cure.

DEKRA solutions 2/2018

Does the VR glasses soon replace the beach vacation? Will we travel to Mars in the future? Digital technology already makes it possible to make your free time extraordinary. DEKRA solutions presents perspectives for the dream journeys of the future.

Rumpelfilz: Chemically Clean, Cool and Clever

Whether you are a manager, banker or truck driver - more and more adults are discovering the stuffed animal for themselves. Before moving into homes a chemical-physical-mechanical course must be passed, though. Rumpelfilz from Sigikid confronts the lab-test.

DEKRA solutions 01/2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) is omnipresent – what’s behind it? Will human and robot work together side by side in the future or will robotics become a risk for mankind? DEKRA solutions takes a look at the history of artificial intelligence and dares a prediction.

Trabant – The Icon, Rebooted

It’s decades since the last example rolled out of the factory, but they are still a presence on Germany’s roads. We are talking about that East German icon, the Trabant. Matthias Bähr specializes in conversions of this special kind.

The Nation’s Punching Bags

They hit the wall at 80 km/h: tough crash test dummies put their “bones” on the line in the cause of safety, but they are also highly sensitive measuring instruments. A job portrait.

DEKRA solutions 02/2017

Home in the Megacity. The latest issue of DEKRA solutions shows the metropolises that most of us will soon call home.

DEKRA solutions 01/2017

Risky Business: Computer, drones and robots are projected to relieve workers in dangerous and monotonous jobs. But will hazardous jobs simply be made safer, or perhaps replaced entirely?

Jaguar Classic Cars: Just Like Herding Cats

Rather British: The Düsseldorf warehouse of this former businessman boasts one of the best Jaguar collections in existence.

DEKRA solutions 03/2016

Are we on the brink of an electric revolution? The latest issue of DEKRA solutions throws light on the interplay between energy and mobility. Interesting statements come from Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, Head of Daimler Trucks. In our interview, he talks about advances in heavy goods transport.

Women’s Power: Referee meets Loss Adjuster

FIFA Referee of the Year Bibiana Steinhaus meets DEKRA Loss Adjuster Monique Kordes to discuss safety on the pitch and on the road, as well as fairness and expertise in a male-dominated environment.

DEKRA solutions 02/2016

Life is dangerous, but have you ever considered where the greatest dangers lurk? Here's a hint: It's not in a plane or the bustle of the city; the chance of falling victim to a plane crash or a terrorist attack is minuscule. The risk is far greater there, where wie feel safest. Behind our own front door.

DEKRA solutions 02/2015

The vision of accident free traffic – and how DEKRA is working to make it become reality. The latest issue of our customer magazine DEKRA Solutions is all about mobile security.

Fire protection in a historical building

In order to ensure the greatest possible level of safety for their huge engine testing area at the Augsburg plant, MAN Diesel and Turbo SE rely on the explosion and fire protection experts at DEKRA EXAM.