Equipment manufacturer for vacuum & automation solutions for semi & automotive incl. service. Globally 2000 employees.
1 Direct Report, Reporting Line: Technical Managing Director.
Responsibility for product-, process- & service quality.
Quality planning: APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, PLP.
QM system scope extension with addition of service.
Systematic revision of all production control plans for reliability enhancement.
Success: Improvement of product & refurbishment reliability by 25%.
Business process optimization of the production & repair center.
Concept development, roll-out and training of all responsible persons.
Optimization of the complaint process with RMA, FA and 8D process.
Reporting of the Quality Performance.
Success: Lead time improvement of defect analysis by 60% and of complaints by 55%.
Internal & external auditing; ISO 9001 certification.
Introduction & coordination of "Standardized Supplier Quality Assessment (SSQA)" for maturity assessment and further development, iterations for 3 years.
Implementation of Brooks Process Certification with PQP, 5S, Safety, Audits.
Implementation of the audit annual plan including all follow-up actions.
Success: Improvement of SSQA maturity scoring by 2.8 points (0 - 10).
Reason for change: facilty transfer/relocation to USA: business unit sale.
Production equipment manufacturer for the semiconductor, display and solar industries incl. service, NASDAQ listed, 14,000 employees worldwide.
Reporting line: Vice President Applied Global Service Europe.
Further development of Operations Quality.
Improve product & service quality and productivity in collaboration with Product Business Groups, Manufacturing, Operations and Account Team.
Implementation of Trackwise as Superuser and CAPA Performance Management.
Implementation and reporting of the KPI Dashboard.
Success: Reliable, fully comprehensive data base on problem solving process with real-time analysis to manage top issues.
Success: "President's Annual Quality Award" with Account Team, with the KPIs e.g. MTBF, Failure Analysis Lead Time, Installation Cycle Time, Spares Service Level Accuracy.
Business process management.
Concept and implementation on European level.
Internal & external audits including all follow-up actions.
Development and implementation of various CAQ modules (audit, calibration, CAPA).
Consulting of multinational teams in matrix organized environment.
Success: streamlining of QM documentation to < 20%.
Success: worldwide implementation of European audit management module.
Success: Reputation of Europe during global ISO 9001 recertification.
Managing Customer Quality:
Acting as quality interface to and from the customer (VtC, VoC).
Coordinate improvement projects from annual customer satisfaction feedbacks.
Negotiation of global quality assurance agreement with strategic account.
Complaint management (8D).
Customer audits.
Success: Complaint management: lead time reduction to 35% for strategic accounts.
Success: Global quality assurance agreement with strategic account.
Success: President's Annual Quality Award with account team.
Reason for change: Successive shift of tasks to Asia.
Role: Quality Manager / QM-Representative (1995-1996):
Engineering service provider with focus on automotive, 150 employees.
Development and implementation of a quality management system for the head office and three operational sites.
Auditing of the sites.
Employee training.
Success: ISO 9001 certification of all sites.
Role: Head of QM-System IVM Group (stated period 1995-2000, likely succeeding the Quality Manager role):
Engineering service provider with focus on automotive, rail, IT, training; accredited automotive manufacturer with complete vehicle development expertise; 2,000 employees.
6 Direct Reports, Reporting line: to managing partner.
QM system implementation and group certification according to ISO 9001.
Expansion according to VDA 6 and TQM for all locations in Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
Business Process Management.
Leading Internal Auditor.
Contact person for customers, suppliers, certification body.
Success: Business process oriented mulisite QM-System & certification for whole enterprise.
Success: AUDI Quality Award as Engineering Partner.
Reason for change (end of tenure at IVM): Desire for internationalization.
Manufacturer of ultracapacitors for Automotive, Grid, Industry, Transportation, Employees 200.
5 Direct reports, reporting line: COO.
Accompanied pre-series production relocation and set-up of series production.
Success: Relocation and planning of series production qualification.
Managing supplier-, production- and customer quality as well as QM system.
Released Supplier Quality Assurance Agreement in alignment with purchasing.
Supplier qualification for selected critical part families.
Success: Supply is secured with qualified suppliers.
Establishment of integrated management system (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949, DS-GVO).
Development/implementation of an environmental management system incl. certification.
Development/implementation of a data protection mgmt. system according to EU-DSGVO.
Success: EU-DSGVO compliance, ISO 14001 certification.
Leading company as equipment supplier to the BioPharma sector.
Sales € 2.34 billion, employees 10,000.
5 Direct reports, reporting line: Head of Manufacturing Equipment.
Halving the number of warranty cases.
Team building with Project Quality Engineers.
Introduction of APQP and PPAP in product development.
Introduction of a dashboard for maturity assurance.
Success: Established advance quality planning in existing & new development projects.
Success: APQP acceptance in development teams and as part of gate reviews, agile & classic.
Success: Turnaround of warranty cases in the course of market launch.
Improvement of customer satisfaction.
Management of special projects in complaints management.
Success: Closure of all complaints older than 30 days, introduction of error catalog, Reduction of the complaint rate by 10%.
Quality support of the internationalization strategy.
Management of the workstream "Quality" in pre- & post-merger activities with 5 locations and following integration.
QM system implementation in newly established customer interaction centers in USA & China.
Success: quality-related business continuity post-merger.
Success: QM system introduction and know-how transfer in core processes.
3.500 Employees.
8 Direct Reports, responsible for the Dresden plant, reporting line: Quality Director.
Lead QM system transition to IATF 16949:2016.
Coordination of the QM system transition from ISO/TS 16949 to IATF 16949:2016.
Success: IATF 16949:2016 certification in March 2018 and thus automotive market access, award of two significant automotive contracts for the plant.
Success: "Quality Award" granted to the team for automotive market access.
Auditing & Certification (Lead Auditor ISO 9001, IATF 16949).
Implementation of the annual system-, product- and process audit plan.
Success: ISO 9001:2015 recertification.
Document management / archiving system.
Archive clearance & disposal of items with expired archiving period.
Success: Archive clearance with ~ 5000 folders in alignment with the affected parties.
Manufacturer of inverters and monitoring accessories for photovoltaic systems as well as power supplies for industrial applications. Turnover 70 Mio. €, employees 400.
8 Direct Reports, Reporting Line: Technical Managing Director.
Support product development and production.
Improvement of first pass yield and failure rate.
Success: TOP product defects and manufacturing process weaknesses identified and addressed.
Quality Assurance and Control.
Stabilization of incoming goods of printed circuit boards.
Success: Project "Inventory clearance with 100% inspection at supplier" completed.
Complaint management.
Increase in effectiveness of incoming goods and material supply.
Introduction of cost recording in the problem solving process.
Success: Cost transparency as input for claim handling & continuous improvement.
Success: Vacancy bridging of the head of quality management.
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