Nikola Recknagel

Technical Integration - Experimental Vehicles

Rapid Technology Center

Nikola Recknagel is a project manager in the Rapid Technology Center (RTC) at BMW Group and chair woman of the Industry Advisory Group

The RTC is an in house supplier for prototyping components made by stereolithography, 3D printing, selective laser sintering, selective beam melting, vacuum casting and investment casting and responsible for the evaluation and integration of new Rapid Technologies inside BMW.

Therefore further development in rapid production technologies and materials is an major interest and aim of the RTC and it is partner in many national and international technical development projects.

Slavko Dolinsek

Associate professor and scientific advisor

University of Primorska (associate dean for R & D)
University of Ljubljana (researcher)

Since 1998 Slavko Dolisek is a professor of "Manufacturing technologies and systems" at the University of Ljubljana and "Technology management" at the University of Primorska.

For several years Slavko Dolisek has been working as a researcher in various basic research projects established by Slovenian governmental institutions, and in applicative research projects for the Slovenian industry in the field of production engineering (TQM, technology and knowledge transfer, technology and production management, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing).

He has been intensively involved in the research of practical industrial problems, and consultancy in production engineering and management. At the last five years published more than 100 scientific and professional papers and is also a member in many institutions, boards and groups.