Abstract:

This article concerns the cooperation between VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava and the company SSI Schäfer Ltd. in solving the bachelor's thesis, the aim of which was the design of two variants of manually driven industrial trucks with a load capacity of 1500 kg. The proposals were created in cooperation with SSI Schäfer s.r.o, which provided essential information on which the design was based. The documents provided include the company's intellectual property: drawings of the existing structure, material sheets of the structures used, practical experience with the existing structure, safety requirements and ensuring minimum maneuverability.
In cooperation between the university and the company, both the design of welded frames and the selection of wheels were performed not only in terms of rolling resistance, but also in terms of hardness, temperature resistance of the material and gentleness of the wheel tread material to the road surface. Among the important conditions in solving this task were the fulfillment of hygienic limits in terms of the maximum allowable pushing / pulling force for one man or for one woman operating a manually operated industrial truck.

Key educational benefits include:
• The goal of the bachelor thesis is more specifically defined,
• Verification of the research hypothesis, including the final evaluation, is performed both in terms of theoretical and practical,
• The pedagogical principle of illustration and activating teaching methods (solution of case studies and discussion methods) is applied here,
• Discussion of practically focused results and confrontation with theses from the theoretical part of the bachelor's thesis includes not only the professional opinion of the theoretical member of the evaluation team, but also the opinion of a member from industrial practice,
• Practically oriented bachelor's theses provide students with opportunities to improve their communication, rhetorical and presentation skills more effectively, as well as to improve the ability to work with patent and research data,
• Student assessment allows to verify the goals from the perspective of experts from the university and from practice and provides the student with effective feedback.
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Advantages of university-industry cooperation:
• The student can work with the most current data - drawing documentation, operational information, safety, and time data,
• Students learn the habits of working in a particular company,
• Solutions that are unusable in practice or have not proved successful in the past are eliminated,
• Cooperation of teams with two diametrically different views can generate new innovative solutions,
• There is an optimal use of the university's research infrastructure and the practical potential of industrial practice,
• Very often, future employees of given industrial companies are educated in this way.

Without this cooperation between the university and industry, there would be no student work with the innovative design of a hand-powered industrial truck.

Keywords:

Industry; University; Innovative; Truck; Safety