Georg Beyschlag, Chief of Employees and Technique at TeamViewer talks to Paddock journal about their partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew. I assume it’s not really easy to search out somebody who isn’t aware of TeamViewer, which is headquartered in Goppingen, Germany, and employs greater than 1,300 individuals globally.
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TeamViewer is a cloud-based platform with intuitive options to securely and remotely entry, management and help any gadget, throughout platforms – from anyplace, anytime. TeamViewer additionally helps corporations to attain their digitalization and Trade 4.0 targets. Furthermore, TeamViewer was named a winner on the 2021 European Buyer Centricity Awards, being the most effective rated of all taking part corporations within the classes Greatest Person Expertise and Worker Expertise. At first of final yr, TeamViewer was introduced as an official accomplice of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team and Mercedes-EQ System E Crew.
The transfer
TeamViewer makes the Mercedes groups extra environment friendly, with optimized distant operations and enhanced connectivity between crew processes trackside and again at base, notably by way of race help throughout testing and racing. TeamViewer moreover performs an essential position in motorsport’s journey in direction of net-zero emissions, by enabling individuals and corporations successfully monitor methods remotely. By enabling distant work and IoT options throughout a number of websites, TeamViewer expertise can ship additional reductions within the carbon footprint of the racing groups, every of which achieved the FIA’s 3* Environmental Accreditation customary in 2020.
Specialists based mostly on the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 company headquarters in Brackley may use sensible glasses to provide trackside technicians directions for repairs to the automobile.
Georg Beyschlag
Chief of Employees & Technique, TeamViewer
The German firm was thrilled to hitch a high-tech ecosystem that’s engineering the way forward for mobility on the planet’s quickest growth laboratory, because of superior efficiency hybrid options in System One and battery-electric expertise in System E.
TeamViewer brand, George Russell, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew, 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix, Sunday – Steve Etherington
“TeamViewer is way over only a sponsor of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 and the Mercedes-EQ FE Crew – we’re a expertise accomplice. Motorsport could be very expertise and data-driven that’s why our software program and the alternatives they carry make us a pretty accomplice past the monetary facet. The primary goal of this partnership is to drive effectivity and thus efficiency throughout all operations via digital transformation” – stated Georg Beyschlag, Chief of Employees and Technique to Paddock journal.
Q&A with Georg Beyschlag, Chief of Employees & Technique at TeamViewer
One would marvel – are there any main variations between System 1 and System E in the case of software program and IT options?
Georg Beyschlag: For us, the partnerships with Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 and Mercedes-EQ FE are fairly comparable. With each groups, we’re engaged on significant integrations of our options to help the groups in working smarter, higher and, consequently quicker. In FE, we not too long ago collaborated with SAP to showcase our options – SAP will not be solely a Mercedes-EQ FE accomplice but in addition one among our valued companions and we share the aim of digitalizing industrial workplaces” – Georg added.
It’s evitable that digitalization has an enormous affect on our lives now and System 1 is a novel platform to maintain being progressive.
GB: All our purchasers and companions assist us to maintain being progressive – as we continually attempt to determine their wants and ache factors to develop options and options they profit from. If our options make them carry out higher, for instance in being extra environment friendly or cost-effective, we did our job proper. Because of accelerating megatrends such because the unfold of cell units, the rising digital transformation and course of automation, our options have established themselves as important – for our purchasers and our sports activities companions. The Mercedes racing groups have been utilizing TeamViewer even earlier than the partnership was introduced.
For the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Take a look at and Improvement Crew, TeamViewer’s distant monitoring capabilities proved to be a game-changer.
Georg Beyschlag
Chief of Employees & Technique, TeamViewer
In F1 nothing is left to probability, and with our distant connectivity functionalities, the crew’s operations have been in a position to proceed seamlessly when distant working grew to become obligatory resulting from COVID-19. For the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Take a look at and Improvement Crew, TeamViewer’s distant monitoring capabilities proved to be a game-changer – with assessments and labs in a position to run quicker and extra effectively on the Brackley manufacturing facility. In future, we’re engaged on integrating our augmented actuality answer with the crew. For instance, consultants based mostly on the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 company headquarters in Brackley may use sensible glasses to provide trackside technicians directions for repairs to the automobile all through a race weekend. In any case, you’ll be able to look ahead to very fascinating use circumstances” – Georg continued.
TeamViewer brand, 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix, Friday – Jiri Krenek
Win-win
So how a lot has TeamViewer benefitted from being current in F1?
GB: We couldn’t be extra excited by the influence this partnership has had on our firm thus far. We perceived a large acquire in model consciousness and have been in a position to have inspiring testimonials like Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Stoffel Vandoorne check out our Augmented Actuality options. That can also be having a huge effect on the best way our staff understand us as an employer. It makes them proud to work for a corporation with such highly effective companions. Moreover, System 1 brings collectively decision-makers and lots of the world’s largest corporations. Greater than 120 listed corporations are sponsors of System 1.
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew alone has 22 companions and relationships with greater than 200 different corporations. Our partnership with the Crew offers us entry to a world-class ecosystem with a variety of potential enterprise prospects.
Georg Beyschlag
Chief of Employees & Technique, TeamViewer
2022 Barcelona Pre-Season Take a look at, Day 2 – Finn Pomeroy
The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew alone has 22 companions and relationships with greater than 200 different corporations. Our partnership with the Crew offers us entry to a world-class ecosystem with a variety of potential enterprise prospects.
Lastly, we have been enthusiastic about what sort of purposes TeamViewer is being utilized in each System 1 and System E?
GB: Proper now, TeamViewer is an integral help platform throughout the Mercedes racing crew’s whole operations. We play an essential position in supporting their race groups throughout occasions. Not solely can Mercedes present distant IT help to the travelling crew, but in addition use TeamViewer for essential connectivity between the restricted variety of trackside crew and the engineering crew based mostly within the UK. This fashion we’re mitigating the chance of any downtime resulting from IT points. And as a matter of reality, TeamViewer helps Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew’s efforts to scale back CO2 emissions resulting from averted journey, an amazing contribution to their path to develop into Web-Zero.
