Supplier of hydraulic and e-draulic equipment for rescue, industry, railwayChangemanagementChannelmanagementB2B businessLeanproductionBusiness DevelopmentSupply Chain ManagementIn-Out-Sourcing

 Expertise for Lean Management, Change Management, Six Sigma Responsible for Production, R&D, Quality, Procurement and Logistic of the BU  Held full P&L management authority and headed 280 staff Reported directly to COO  Increased the revenue from 20 Million EUR to 130 Million EUR Implemented quality improvement program including spot audits, root-cause analysis and remedial actions Developed and implemented new R&D-Division, industrialized new products and technologies  Handled customer complaints including physically visiting customer plants and collaborating with production engineers to identify and solve issues. Worked out strategic vision and objectives for the BU to optimize 18 KPYs Responsible for the worldwide implementation of Six Sigma, built up and coached up to 50 green belts and 6 black belts Introduced Lean Management System to be excellent in low volume/high mix made to order operations and quality Introduced a process oriented Management System for Health, Safety and Environmental material flow and production layout optimized by Value stream analysis Reduced inventory levels 50% through JIT implementation Maintained outstanding safety record with zero incidents in 5 years

Value Stream Analysis, Lean Production, Total Productive Maintenance, Reorganization, Automatization

 Organizational restructuring and Change Management initiatives that produced striking increases in internal efficiency  Reduced packaging costs by more than 20% Yield improved with process optimization and best practice implementation Efficiency analysis and cost reduction programs started Internal product engineering processes audited

 Developed optoelectronic components Built up of clean room production for optoelectronic submounts and microelectronic systems Processes introduced and improved for different electronic manufacturing steps Deputy of Head of Production