Experience
May 2022 - Jun 2022
2 months
- Product family analysis and assembly precedence graph
- MTM-UAS time studies
- Individual time build-up levels
- Optimization measures
- Line balancing
Apr 2022 - May 2022
2 months
- Planning, facilitation and documentation of 3 workshops on lessons learned CapEx project
- Analysis of an employee survey
Mar 2022 - May 2022
3 months
- Planning, facilitation and documentation of 7 workshops on lessons learned CapEx project
- Analysis of an employee survey
Mar 2022 - May 2022
3 months
- MTM-UAS time study for hydroponic tomato cultivation
- Time/productivity comparison between hydroponic and conventional methods
- Optimization measures to boost productivity
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
1 month
- Planning, facilitation and documentation of 2 workshops on lessons learned CapEx project
- Analysis of an employee survey
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
1 month
- Planning, facilitation and documentation of 7 workshops on lessons learned CapEx project
- Analysis of an employee survey
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
1 month
- MTM-UAS time studies for assembling two hydraulic lift systems
- Training an employee in MTM-UAS
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
1 month
- Basics of risk management
- The PRINCE2 risk management approach
- Case study
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 2 months
- Project management for lean production rollout
- Coaching of production leaders (plant managers, team leaders)
- Planning and delivery of leader and staff training on:
- Lean basics
- Value stream mapping and design
- Method training (5S, quick changeover/SMED, workstation optimization, etc.)
- Change management: strategy and rollout of stakeholder and communication measures (ADKAR model)
- 9 implementation workshops in production and logistics
May 2021 - May 2021
1 monthMay 2021 - May 2021
1 month
- Design and delivery of two online inhouse trainings
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
1 month
- Workshop planning, facilitation and documentation
- Analysis of an employee survey
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
1 monthMar 2021 - Mar 2021
1 month
- Lean and value stream basics training
- Value stream mapping and design workshop
- Layout planning for a production/logistics area
- Project planning for implementation
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
1 monthJan 2021 - Feb 2021
2 months
- Development of a digital shopfloor dashboard
- Rollout of a digital dashboard proof-of-concept
- Stakeholder and project management
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
1 month
- Basics of risk management
- The PRINCE2 risk management approach
- Case study
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
1 month
- Applications
- Overview of software systems
- Field notes
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
4 months
- Workshop preparation for change management
- Stakeholder analysis and management
- Advising local management on change communication
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
3 months
- Quick check of work productivity
- Advice on analysis methods within a productivity project
- Recommendations to improve work productivity
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
1 month
- Applications
- Overview of software systems
- Field notes
Sep 2019 - May 2021
1 year 9 months
- Project management for lean production rollout
- Coaching of production leaders (plant managers, team leaders)
- Planning and delivery of leader and staff training on:
- Lean basics
- Value stream mapping and design
- Method training (5S, quick changeover/SMED, workstation optimization, etc.)
- Value stream and takt time analysis
- Change, stakeholder and communication management
- 12 implementation workshops in production and logistics
- 8 video trainings to develop multipliers
- Employee survey to track lean transformation success
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
1 monthOct 2018 - Oct 2018
1 monthMay 2018 - May 2019
1 year 1 month
- Project management for lean production rollout
- Value stream mapping and design
- Preparation for an internal production system audit
- Coaching of production leaders (plant managers, production managers, shift supervisors)
- Coaching of the lean champion and stakeholder management
- Coaching of the lean manager to continue lean activities, including development toward lean admin
- Workshops on 5S, PDCA, value stream design, line balancing, work system design
- Redesign of the PDCA process: form redesign, training shift supervisors, supporting PDCA rounds in team dialogue
- Introduction of digital shopfloor management and digital team dialogue
May 2018 - May 2018
1 monthApr 2018 - Apr 2018
1 month
- Lean basics
- Value stream mapping
- Applying lean principles in production and admin areas
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
6 monthsFeb 2018 - Apr 2018
3 monthsJan 2018 - Jan 2019
1 year 1 month
- Project security "Spare parts transfer to SAP"
- Coaching the maintenance manager on change management / organizational development
- Facilitation of change and process workshops
- Support at project start "Equipment availability cleanroom" and coaching the project lead
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
1 month
- Planning and facilitation of the workshop; documentation of results
- Improving equipment availability with PDCA and FMEAs
- Coaching an engineer to independently lead workshops
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
1 month
- Value stream mapping and design of the order process with lean admin tools (e.g. swim lane)
- Simulation of the order process and development of process improvements
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
3 months
- Value stream mapping and design of the order process with lean admin tools (e.g. swim lane)
- Lean admin simulation of the order process and development of process improvements
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
1 month
- Lean basics, principles and methods in production and administration
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
1 month
- Lean basics
- Optimization of equipment management
- Lean simulation of manufacturing processes
May 2017 - Dec 2017
8 months
- Project execution on behalf of the maintenance manager
- Project management
- Preparation, execution and follow-up of project meetings
- Data analysis
- Implementation of improvements
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
5 months
- Coaching the project manager
- Project management of implementation project
- Deployment and enforcement of project management tools
- Stakeholder management
- Schedule and task management
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
1 monthMar 2017 - Mar 2017
1 month
- Value stream mapping and design of the order process with lean admin tools (e.g. swim lane)
- Lean admin simulation of the order process and development of process improvements
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
1 month
- Value stream mapping and design of the order process with lean admin tools (e.g. swim lane)
- Lean admin simulation of the order process and development of process improvements
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
1 month
- Inhouse training in value stream mapping
- Adapting lean admin methods for lean health: hospitals and clinics
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
2 months
- Inhouse training in production planning, production, logistics, purchasing
- Optimization of the order process with lean admin tools (e.g. swim lane analysis)
- Simulation of process flow and development of process improvements
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
8 months
- Organization and execution of five workshops
- Technical advice on bonding sensors
- Coaching the maintenance manager on strategy, project management and communication
- Strategic alignment of the maintenance department
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
1 year 1 month
- Leading a project team of up to 10 staff, including 3 external consultants
- Value stream mapping and design
- Planning and implementation of coordinated production planning and control:
- Macro structuring of planning areas into control loops
- Defining the lead order release point for the entire plant
- Defining control logic for each loop: Kanban, CONWIP or push
- Implementation with visual shopfloor control and ERP software
- Development of in-plant transport using Kanban
- Redesign and relocation of the warehouse
- Workstation design following lean principles
- Advising plant and production managers on backlog reduction
- Communication with plant management, board and external investor
- Conducting Kaizen and planning workshops
- Delivering trainings: lean basics, value stream mapping and design
Nov 2014 - Present
10 years 10 months
- Consulting with focus on lean
- Interim production management
- Coaching for leaders
- Trainings (inhouse and public)
Oct 2012 - Oct 2014
2 years 1 month
- Optoelectronic components for networks, aviation, defense, medical
- Leading 16 staff, 7 direct reports
- Ensuring day-to-day production operations
- Production risk mapping and maintenance planning
- Ensuring quality, handling complaints, implementing corrective actions, conducting FMEAs
- Budget planning and cost center responsibility
- Planning and executing investments
- Developing and implementing cost reduction measures
- Planning and executing lean production measures
- Creating custom solutions with customers
- Supporting sales during customer visits and trade shows
Jul 2007 - Sep 2012
5 years 3 months
- Industrialization of optoceramics/LED processes
- Layout planning for an injection line (Hungary)
- Implementation of a KPI system
- Production simulation for several glass and silicon plants
- Workstation design for silicon melting, glass pressing, and assembly for optical systems
- Production concept for photovoltaic modules
- Relocation of a photovoltaic production line
- Planning and setup of a new plant (silicon crystallization for photovoltaics), subproject lead for logistics and production control
- Lean trainer qualification
- Lean production rollout in plants across the USA, Malaysia, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Brazil (approx. 3 months each)
- On-site project leadership
- Planning and facilitation of lean workshops
- On-site management coaching
- Workshop topics:
- 5S (order and cleanliness)
- TPM / preventive maintenance / production risk
- Shopfloor management
- Value stream mapping and design
- Maintenance
- Process stabilization / systematic problem solving
- Workstation optimization / best point / MTM
- Production planning and control
- Error analysis / quality improvement
Oct 2002 - Apr 2007
4 years 7 months
- Work system design
- Time management / Methods-Time Measurement
- Factory planning
- Maintenance
- Quality management
- Simulation
Apr 2001 - Jul 2001
4 months
- Series launch support for Porsche Cayenne
Nov 2000 - Apr 2001
6 months
- Design of material flow systems (CAD)