Founder, CEO and Technical Business Consultant

Stabilizing the coating supply chain for train heads

• Optimizing painting quality for the Mireo platform
• Identifying and analyzing process weaknesses across suppliers' entire manufacturing process, including shell production, compliance with manufacturing specifications, surface coating, and impacts in the final customer environment
• Structuring and tracking open action items to ensure transparency and regular status reporting
• Preparing and following up on regular meetings with SMO RS and internal and external suppliers, including aligning views, setting focus topics, and identifying resource bottlenecks and conflicts of interest

Client interface for trades for exhaust air purification systems including “BioWäscher”

• Interface between the end customer and the contractor Deurotech Group

Second source for a new plant builder (initial order: dryer line for MDF board production)

• Coordination and monitoring of production planning in collaboration with the supplier
• Ensuring quality standards and processes
• Ensuring on-time delivery and cost compliance, including change order management

Conceptual design and industrialization of an automated polyurea coating plant

Responsible for a €2.7M budget

Planning and industrialization of an automated polyurea system for coating, among others, multiplex boards (anti-slip coatings)

Conceptual design and "New Paint Shop"

• Reviewing and validating planning concepts
• Creating requirement specifications and elaborating detailed requirement documents
• Selecting suitable suppliers and service providers
• Supporting and assisting in negotiating offers
• Executing and implementing planning concepts into productive plants and systems

Responsible for a €4.9M budget

Handover to the plant after commissioning

Current State Assessment

• Conducted an as-is analysis of the paint shop processes regarding cycle times, paint programs, and results after the paint process to develop an action plan that enables a change in the production flow for sustainable productivity improvement of the paint line

Created an action catalog including supplier recommendations for implementing technical changes to the system

Bumper production relocation from CZ to DE including tool relocation for injection molding

• Planned, coordinated, and executed product launches in plastic injection molding production
• Coordinated between the project team and the production plant during product ramp-up
• Reviewed and coordinated adjustments to equipment and capacities
• Coordinated with Industrial Engineering and suppliers
• Created feasibility studies
• Initiated and published FMEAs, and approved injection molding, painting, and assembly processes

Set up organizational structure & process workflows

• Reorganized workshop responsibilities
• Implemented ISO 9010 QMS and updated existing QM management
• Reorganized order workflows

Supplier management of sealing profiles for German OEM (BMW), supporting and analyzing the manufacturing process: "Hotforming"

• Identified potential weaknesses in process stability
• Supported measures/tests to achieve deeper process understanding
• Coached employees on process optimization
• Reported to BMW

Project "New painting plant": planning, implementation and full management of the entire project

• Created requirements specification
• Project planning (MS Project)
• Plausibility checks
• Managing supplier quotes
• Regular reporting to COO and CEO
• Support in contract negotiations
• Monitoring/site supervision

Budget responsibility of €4.9 million

Feasibility analysis of liquid coatings in Germany

• Identification of potential market segments in Germany
• Determination of customer potentials, profit potentials, resource requirements (€) and market prices (€/kg), potentials for liquid coatings with existing customers as well as additional potentials for powder coatings in application markets/segments

Successful derivation of liquid coating technology, alignment with the existing product portfolio and identification of the low-hanging fruits in liquid coatings

Planning of a new plant in a former logistics hall with takt and coating lines | Managing AWZ production | Coating operations and leading IE/Application | Involved in product development and management

Equipment planning and procurement | Planning and implementation of production expansion, Pfungstadt plant

• Planning and industrialization of the Pfungstadt plant expansion with a large-area coating machine and robotic system for stainless steel sheets
• Pretreatment processes including stainless steel passivation followed by automated coating with SolGel material (SiO2)
• Special projects in medical technology: stainless steel OR tables (Trumpf) and pickling of titanium implants (Aesculap)
• Redesign of stainless steel housings for dental equipment (3M ESPE)

Certification in the DIN EN 1090 area

• Implementation of QM systems according to EN1090 at various metal fabrication companies
• Revision of existing QM management

Process optimization of printing and molding interior aluminum

• Troubleshooting 'black inclusions'
• Defining corrective measures and initiating tests
• Effects on adhesion after molding and back injection
• Screen printing coating

Re-launch of a product line for enhanced corrosion protection of stainless steels with subsequent silicon dioxide coating, as well as execution of series production ramps

• Complete overhaul of the Technical Sales business unit and support for new customers (continuing the tasks from the previous role as Technical Manager)

Productivity improvements in the Polish plants

• Implementing productivity increases for production stages: pretreatment, coating, logistics and other production areas
• OEE determination
• SMED
• Optimization of process workflows on 21 rotary indexing lines
• Coaching employees on the production floor

Standardization, conceptualization and industrialization (requirement specifications, acceptance protocols, shipping releases for production systems and equipment)