“Lab to Fab” design and applications for the industrial IOT

Design and Implementation of consolidated platform for varying joining technologies

Consultant for factory integration and management networks

• mechanical and electrical product design
• team development
• collaboration with manufacturing and craftsmen
• software development
• marketing
• advertising
• serial production management

Achievements:

• hardware design production ready
• first 100 units built and stable

PCB Design and Programming for Arts and Lighting Applications

• hardware design
• software and UI design
• design studies and usability

Achievements:

• products used successfully on major New York jewellery exhibition
• products shown in arts exhibition

Research projects/proof of concept

• implementation of test and feasibility models for usage of neural networks in sequencing
• tests of neural networks in context sensitive decision systems
• timeline editing for real-time movement data
• mechanical hardware design and 3D printing

Achievements:

• successful proof of concept
• usable prototype

Project Owner:

• engineering
• TÜV negotiation and documentation
• EFI and Ignition programming
• EFI and Ignition map tuning
• mechanical engineering and modifications
• product platform reverse engineering and part selection
• closed loop tuning

Achievements:

• successful mechanical TÜV approvals
• approved EURO exhaust filtering for veteran cars

Technical Project Leader:

• technical consultant to the CEO
• creative head and problem solver.
• design and implementation of image processing applications (fault tracking, quality data collection, interactive data collection)
• cloud based company infrastructure for a start-up company
• business process modelling, workflows and IIOT interfaces
• factory infrastructure consultant for major German car brands
• design and implementation of a joining technology database
• manufacturing network planning and integration
• implementation of a fastening expert system using deep learning and graphical programming
• co-development of industrial displays with a Chinese design and manufacturing team
• software design and implementation for process system simulation
• cable and PCB design for robotic applications
• electrical and mechanical design of HIM devices for user/machine interaction
• development of cloud-based application business models

Project Member:

• integration of safety circuitry into products
• electrical design for Flow Drill Screwdriving Systems
• software design for industrial feeding systems

Management:

• project leader for electrical and software projects
• technical team leader
• project budget responsibility
• internal IT infrastructure consulting and management
• advisor for technical department leaders
• Mentor and supervisor for technical employees and service technicians.

Achievements:

• captured major market shares as a company starting a from scratch
• products used in body shop factories all over the world with an avg. availability of >99.95%
• gained major brands with exclusive contracts (BMW, RR, VW, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, …)
• excellent reputation at all customers for innovation, quality and time of delivery

Technical Project Leader:

• re-design and implementation of whole company network and IT services
• platform migration and virtualization
• storage consolidation
• application planning and launch
• corporate website and intranet
• database migration, consolidation and integration
• secure network infrastructure and PKI implementations
• OLAP and data mining for sales and reporting
• software design and engineering for internal business processes
• network analysis and optimization
• corporate network monitoring
• datacentre planning, monitoring and maintenance
• document management systems, introduction, planning and training
• planning of training of employees and IT-staff
• planning of primary, secondary and tertiary LAN and telephony wiring
• VoIP and telephony systems

Management:

• budget management and planning of maintenance expenses
• personnel responsibility for 2 directly reporting employees
• inter department and inter-corporation negotiation
• consolidation of networks and IT-departments at different international sites
• mentor and supervisor for 5 apprentices, student, trainees and interns

Achievements:

• greatly increased efficiency for company information flow
• fortified internal security and raised user awareness
• successfully increased network and server speed and availability while lowering TCO
• made IT budget plannable and SLAs a permanent part of the infrastructure
• set base for modern reporting and workflow optimization