• Turnaround of a production plant in the automotive industry (body-in-white)

• Restore full customer satisfaction in 11 months

• Achieving and sustainably securing a clearly positive operating result within 2 years

• Achievement of all required certifications (e.g. IATF 16949) in the first “ramp-up” and without major deviation

• Improvement from C-supplier according to VDA 6.3 to A-supplier in 3 years

• Collective bargaining (incl. ERA introduction) with IG-Metall and a win-win agreement

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• More than 15 years of successful, international project management in the automotive industry

• From a 1-man project team to support and coordination to the management of a large project

• From the simultaneous engineering phase to final acceptance and support in series production

• From small projects to 3-digit million investment projects and cycle times from 45 seconds to 12 minutes

• In Austria, Germany, Canada, USA, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia and South Korea

Projekt extract:

• Three fully automated body shops

• A third-party product integration into an existing production line

• A fully automated production line for a body platform with 10 variants

• A large number of production cells and lines for structural and outer skin component groups

• Validation and optimization of manufacturing concepts

• Prozessoptimierung am Shop Floor (Maschinen- und Mitarbeiter-Taktzeiten, Anlagenverfügbarkeiten, Materialfluss etc.)

• Process optimization on the store floor (machine and employee cycle times, equipment availability, material flow, etc.)

• Takeover and management as well as hands-on implementation of time-, cost- and quality-critical projects in Germany, Spain, Russia and South Korea

• Plant and process planning for body-in-white production (incl. standardization)

• Design of manual, partially and fully automated production concepts with consideration of LEAN principles

• Creation of flexible manufacturing cell and production line concepts and their implementation

• Specification and development of process planning tools for more efficient planning and costing

• Digitalization of process planning (with Siemens Tecnomatix tools)

• Development and introduction of (global) process standards in body-in-white planning

• Introduction of innovative manufacturing processes and equipment technologies

• Optimization of store floor management through visualization, digitalization and LEAN methods

• E.g. introduction of KPI charts, Andon boards, 8D reports for error analysis and correction, 5S optimizations

Support and sub-project management for global plant construction projects:

• Plant and fixture construction in Mexico (green field)

• Production plant in Germany (brown field)

• Production plant in Spain (brown field)

• Production hall (part of the complete plant) in Austria (brown field)

• The brown field projects were always combined with product startups (body-in-white)

• New establishment and development of planning teams in the course of projects in Austria, Germany, Spain and Canada

• Over 20 years of experience in disciplinary as well as functional management in projects, line and matrix organizations

• Management and reorganization of a production plant in Germany with 330 employees.

• Price negotiations for component groups, machines, plants and devices with OEMs (Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche, VW) as well as machine and plant manufacturers; for basic orders and later change costs

• Extensive negotiations with works councils on company agreements, shift models, etc. and IG-Metall on an in-house collective agreement