Ing. Jozef Benko, Phd. Email and Phone Number

Development and launching of new products and technologies, transfer exist products and technologies from abroad to Slovakia plant.Main achievements: Project: Implementation of oil distribution in a new production hall - planned and approved investment 579 968 Euro, real costs 61 842 Euro, saving 518 125 Euro.

Responsible for managing Production, Engineering and Logistic department (production planning, material planning, warehouse).Main achievements:OEE improvement by 17 % (from 56 % to 73 %).Increase RFT from 75 % to 92,8 %.

Responsible for managing R&D Process Engineering Leaders, R&D Engineers and Process Engineers. Responsible for developing, optimizing and improving products, process and technologies. Procurement, designing, expansion, integration and commissioning of production facilities and machinery into operation as well as the connection to existing and new production and logistics processes. Assures competitiveness and innovation of products and processes from a technological and design standpoint. Responsibility for the construction of new buildings at the plant. Maintaining and building close contacts with customers and suppliers. Reporting to General Manager.Main achievements:Scrap reduction by 70 %.Downtimes reduction by 48 %.Increase hourly output by 34 %.Obtaining Q1 Status from customer Ford Motor Company.

Responsibility for running the Production Plant of Automotive Special Cables (extrusion, braiding, twisting, testing, measurement, maintenance, process engineering, product engineering, customer service, logistics, purchasing, quality, calculation and Kaizen department).Main achievements:Increase daily production output by 18 %.

Quality and efficiency continuous improvement management, management of workshops and multifunctional project teams to decrease company costs, increase quality and productivity, optimize logistics and material flow, responsibility for developing a plan of continuous improvement in the company, promotion of continuous improvement culture and way of thinking in the organization, coordinating root cause analyses and corrective and preventive actions, identification and promotion activities to reduce company costs, implementation Lean and Six Sigma tools into the company, mentor, trainer, and coach of any member in the organization looking for improvements and waste reduction, reporting to the General Manager.Main achievements:26 successfully completed continuous improvement workshops.2 successfully completed Black Belt projects.OEE improvement of production line by 42 %.Performance improvement by 38 %.Reduction the cycle time of the production line from 65 seconds to 20 seconds.Small train implementation for material replenishment across entire plant.Material flow improvement in entire plant (production, warehouse).Training all staff of problem solving techniques.

Responsibility for running 4 manufacturing operations: UPS production, Chloride production, Metal Shop production, Cables and Wire Harnesses production, including budget, financial plans, improvement of KPI, implementation lean Six Sigma tools to the company, responsibility for the transfer of new products, conduction of customer audits, training and responsibility for 190 employees.Main achievements:Increase overall productivity by 15% (from 73 to 88%), scrap reduction by 59%, saving production area by 50%.

Management of multifunctional project teams in order to increase company performance, effectiveness of machines, optimization of logistics and production process, quality improvement and scrap elimination according to Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma tools.Main achievements:setup time reduction by 92% (changing tyre forms in vulcanization press) from 195 min. to 15 min., increase rework line performance of compound by 90%, scrap reduction by 81%, setup time reduction by 75% (changing bladders in vulcanization press) from 20 min. to 5 min., cleaning time reduction of tyre forms by 75% from 480 min. to 120 min., running costs reduction in distribution storage of tyres by 60%, staff reduction by 20%, stabilization very fluctuation place of work by implementation an electronic storage, tyres rework reduction by 14%.

Responsibility for running 3 manufacturing operations: Curing/Pressing of Tires, Final Finishing and Production of Rubber Bladders. Organization and management of the production process, monitoring and improvement indicators and parameters of production, production process improvement and optimization, evaluation and increase productivity and quality of products, training of employees, responsibility for customer audits and responsibility for 250 employees.

Implementation of industrial engineering methods into production process, optimization production process and implementation new production procedures and technologies, analysis and measurement of work, planning of capacities – machines and people.

Production planning, allocation production procedures, optimization stocks in production and warehouse.