HOME ABOUT OUR SOLUTIONS WORK WITH US CONTACT US WHEREVERWECAN WhereverWeCan 26 October 2021 ‘Win or lose’ mindset? Change the game No doubt we live in a hyper-competitive World. We are always encouraged, either explicitly or implicitly, to “be the best“, to crush our competition, to… 19 October 2021 SPII AT POLITECNICO OF MILAN It’s time to our annual date with the students of the Automation of Electric Transport Systems course of Politecnico of Milan. The lesson was held… 12 October 2021 How many things can you do with your feet? The human foot is a work of art and an engineering masterpiece (Michelangelo Buonarroti) How many actions do you perform with your feet, often even… 16 September 2021 V-DESK EXPERIENCE SPII and Italdesign welcome you to the new future! Train drivers were asked to imagine and create their workplace with the new #V-Desk. They were… 2 September 2021 When your Vision shapes your Future: SPII & Avanchair Avanchair’s crowdfunding campaign June 13th, 2021 was a very special day. Maybe you didn’t realize it, but on that day the life of 130 million… 3 August 2021 One vision: from competition to cooperation What do you think is the best way to make people cooperate? Give them a common goal? Make them feel part of something greater, you… 29 July 2021 Company processes at the service of products – SIL master controller Company processes are the way to achieve the best possible quality for products designing, manufacturing and validation. In this article we will focus on the… 22 July 2021 RECEPTION 2.0 “You never get a second chance to make a first impression” (Oscar Wilde) We have decided to give our company a new face! We started… 20 July 2021 Innovation and the power of a train drivers’ community We ended our latest technical article on “How to include train drivers in the design process” with a rather open question: how can you overcome… 15 July 2021 V-DESK: OUR TECHNOLOGICAL CREATION The world is evolving, especially towards the technological path.It is changing faster than ever and we are changing with it! During the last few years,… 8 July 2021 Let’s make safety a team goal! Picture 1 – source: Verga Formazione – Electrical Risk Course We speak more and more often about workplace safety referring to the set of measures… 1 July 2021 The right idea is not enough, it has to be a convincing idea If you truly want to change a company’s culture into one fueled by the knowledge that “it depends on me“, you need two important elements:… 22 June 2021 CELEBRATIONS FOR RED DOT DESIGN AWARDS 2021 It started Red Dot Design Week: you can see award-winning project on www.red-dot.org. We want to share with you our celebrations as Red Dot Design… 17 June 2021 HOW are you available to contribute to the design of new train’s cab? Our latest poll just ended and the result is absolutely significant: more than 300 train drivers would like to be involved in the design process… 15 June 2021 OUR PARTNERSHIP: SPII & ITALDESIGN We all need to come back to normal life! EXPO Ferroviaria 2021 Fair will be for sure a way to start again with new products and… 10 June 2021 Does change need to start from above? We have mostly been led to believe that “real change starts from the bottom up“. That any important, consistent change needs to originate from the… 8 June 2021 MOSCOW 2020 – THE NEW GENERATION UNDERGROUND On 21/09/2020 the new train of the Moscow Metro 2020 was presented. It entered service in the autumn of the same year. Here you go… 27 May 2021 SPII & ITALDESIGN Our partnership with Italdesign is strengthened! It was a great pleasure for us to host Jörg Astalosch, Nicola Guelfo and Corrado Becchio – respectively CEO,… 20 May 2021 It depends on me: the strength of a new company culture Fabio Tognetti at SPII Evolution What would you do, if it all depended on you? What would you do, if you didn’t have any more… 6 May 2021 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love. Cit. Edwin H. Chapin Mother represents the origin of each of… 4 May 2021 Towards a Digital Humanism: let’s put mankind at the center again Do you remember humanism, the philosophical stance that emphasizes the potential and agency of human beings, individually and socially? Philosophy may look so distant from… 29 April 2021 Let’s celebrate work in every shape! We have a dream. Actually, it’s more like a vision. It is a human being, not male nor female, just human. And it is at… 27 April 2021 HAPTIC FEEDBACK: THE AWAKENING OF TACTILE The somatosensory system involves an enormous variety of sensations, not just vibrations or pressure, but also pain, temperature, and the position and movement of the… 22 April 2021 How to include train drivers in the design process? The conclusions of the previous article on this topic was somehow on a middle ground: we established that including train drivers in the design process… 15 April 2021 A journey called Change Any change process is a long, complex journey: it doesn’t happen in a day, nor in a week. It spans for months, it involves all… 1 April 2021 HAPPY EASTER! “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the… 30 March 2021 A Red Dot for Intelliarm: SPII has won the top award for outstanding design! There are many awards for the design industry, but there is just one whose name is capable of giving a designer goosebumps. Or even better,… 25 March 2021 The advantages of including train drivers in the design process (or maybe not?) What would happen if Ford had asked people what they wanted? Probably…this! Fun fact: more often than not, the people who will actually use an… 23 March 2021 Female voices, loud and clear! It’s always a pleasure when your company is recognized at an international level, with requests for speaking at public events.And when the theme is as… 16 March 2021 SPII awarded among the Italian excellences On the 11th of March 2021, SPII was awarded a prize that is very dear to our heart: the one for the category “women in… 8 March 2021 Happy everyone’s day Today is a special day. A day to celebrate the force of creation, of change, of resilience.A great day to remember what we should know… 2 March 2021 The future at your fingertips As a designer, I have always dreamt of creating products that are not just an aesthetic cover for a technological content, but rather a real… 23 February 2021 Imagine what the future could be The world is moving fast. Maybe too fast. Too fast for us to slow down and check if the direction is right. We keep going,… 18 February 2021 Backstage Action! “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,… 11 February 2021 LIUC & SPII Roberto Foiadelli – Chairman of the board of SPII & Federico Visconti – Rector Of LIUC We are always interested in promoting cultural and educational… 9 February 2021 GAMIFICATION!!! “We are no more fully alive, more completely ourselves, and more deeply absorbed in something, than when we play.” (Charles E. Schaefer) The game is… 4 February 2021 Watch where you put your feet! How many hours a day do you stay seated? The answer could be: many, perhaps too many! Sitting at the computer, reading a good book,… 28 January 2021 WHEREVER CURIOSITY LIES “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – cit. Walt… 26 January 2021 How will trains’ driver cabs look like in the future? A “futuristic” spaceship’s driver cab from Star Trek from the 60′ It’s not easy to answer this kind of question. Probably future trains’ driver cabs… 21 January 2021 WHEREVER INSPIRATION LIES “Do you want to know where I found my inspiration? In a tree; the tree supports the large branches, these the smaller branches and the… 20 January 2021 Resilience: a keyword of SPII’s history As we know very well by now, SPII’s history is tightly connected with the story of the city that hosts the company and of the… 12 January 2021 Power is nothing without a (master) controller Italian technology “Power is nothing without control” said a famous slogan of the Pirelli brand, for the first time 25 years ago. The company, global… 30 December 2020 Happy New Year! 2020 was a year of challenges! The coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives, the world we live in and our company too. We have changed… 22 December 2020 Christmas Greetings This is going to be a Christmas like no other…so let us wish you a very merry Christmas in a way like no other! With our… 17 December 2020 What’s the secret recipe for a story of success? History, people, change Aerial photo of SPII headquarters in the 1960s There are not many companies today who can date back their origin to over 70 years ago.… 3 December 2020 Today’s young people are the talents of tomorrow! We are proud to describe our reality to middle school students.Our goal is to make them understand how important the #passion for their work is and that… 24 November 2020 Are trains’ Driver Cabs designed for Drivers? At first it could sound like a strange question. But if you follow me until the end, you will see it is not. Take the automotive… 19 November 2020 Be Curious – PMI DAY 2020 We want to thank all the guys who have chosen to participate with us at this online edition of the PMI DAY of the Polytechnic… 11 November 2020 Simplicity and reliability: the tracks of the displays of the future “What happened to simplicity?” asked Charles Bukowski “we all seem put on a stage, and we all feel obliged to put on a show”. Since… 5 November 2020 What do a sanctuary in Saronno, Harry Potter and industrial innovation have in common? The first locomotives running on the Milan-Saronno line in 1879 The place where we live has a strong influence over who we are. This is… 29 October 2020 The future of transportation: will the driver become useless? Autonomous cars, driverless trains, remotely controlled excavators: everyday new tests and applications on the field show how the sci-fi future described by Isaac Asimov in… 21 October 2020 Life-changing trains exist. But you don’t have to wait for them, you have to drive them! We love our job and we are committed every day to improve the relationship between man and machine by designing and implementing technological, ergonomic and… 16 October 2020 Virtual lesson at Politecnico in Milan We are back…more locked and loaded than ever! Once again we were pleased to give a lecture to the students of the Automation of Electric… 8 October 2020 Safety First! “Teamwork divides tasks and multiplies success” Thanks to our colleagues who, despite the current difficult situation, gave their availability to participate in this event and… 25 September 2020 Student Internship Today the Student Internship project ends. The program was organized in collaboration with the school I.P.S.I.A., located in Saronno, at the beginning of the 2019/2020… 15 September 2020 New site online The new SPII website is online!!! Its completely renewed graphics and content turns navigation into a user friendly engaging dive, communicating creativity, technology, core values… 20 July 2020 LabVIEW methodology “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – cit. Andre Gide Continuous development needs people with #passion, #curiosity and #courage.… 1 July 2020 Personal Oxygen Dispense During this hard period of quarantine I realized that many things changed to me. I re-discovered the meanings of “some little things” (baking a good… 28 April 2020 PASSIONATELY CURIOUS The important thing is never stop learning! For this reason, today we took part in a “LinkedIn Efficient” online course and there were many of… 2 February 2020 STAY POSITIVE, WORK HARD and MAKE IT HAPPEN! The Schaltbau Group Management just held its annual kick off meeting in Munich to prepare for a successful year 2020. We are really looking forward… 13 January 2020 DESIGN MADE IN ITALY SPII S.p.A. design customized solution since 1947. Since 2015 SPII S.p.A. is the global Center of Competence of the Schaltbau GmbH for Human Machine Interface. In Schaltbau Holding AG, SPII means… 25 December 2019 Merry Christmas 2019 SPII S.p.A. wishes the best to you and your families! May this Holidays be a time of peace and rest, so that we can find ourselves… 10 December 2019 ISM Schaltbau GmbH in Hamburg ISM (International Sales Meeting) Schaltbau GmbH in Hamburg “When the wind of change blows impetuously there are those who raise walls and who, looking ahead,… 25 October 2019 CMMI Lev. 2 – goal reached! Committed to continuous improvement, Schaltbau GmbH Group, through SPII S.p.A. Center of Competence, has been appraised at Level 2 of the CMMI® Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration on 25th October… Home About Our Solutions Work with us Contact Us WhereverWeCan News Archive Via Don Volpi, 37, angolo Via Montoli 21047 Saronno VA Italy +39 02 9622921 info@spii.it Follow Us SPII S.p.A. | C.F/P. IVA 01766440125 | Cap. Soc. Euro 2.543.000 Concept and Design by Unit General Terms of Purchase Cookie&Privacy Policy