Udo Bönsch

•Global Engineering Lead for the product group Airbag Textiles with 400+ million USD turn over
• Driving the Global Product Management Process •Leading global product strategy and driving for reduction of complexity •Managing changes related to safety critical product performance throughout the global supply chain •Driving supplier development and qualification/approval process

•Material Engineering-China, Japan, Korea, Thailand •Supplier development •Change Management •Driving ‚One Product-one Process‘ strategy •Global Product Management
 •Localization of key raw materials throughout the supply chain, qualification of changes relevant for safety critical product performance •Increase of capacity by 400+% through development of new suppliers, dev. and qualification of products •Reduction of cost by 30% over 5 years •Trouble shooting, Disaster Management to ensure supply

• Sales and Engineering responsibility for European business • Managed existing business and development projects internally with Engineering and Operations in the Asian region (Korea, China and Vietnam), and locally with OEMs and Tier-1 customers • Acquired major new business for a global OEM platform

• Managed the product and application development groups for safety components of a leading Tier-2 company • Close collaboration with Operations and Quality to meet customer expectations, achieve aggressive cost targets and deliver Zero Defects • Directed handling of performance and safety critical material changes with the supply base and customers

• Global responsibility for the product group • Developed the Supply Chain in China and Asia, with focus on performance, quality and cost • Managed the relocation of manufacturing for European business to Asia (China, Japan, Korea) • Supervised in the Chinese JV the launch of cutting and sewing operations for safety components. Established an integrated approach to quality on all levels. Achieved a safe launch with zero safety critical issues on 20+ projects exported to Europe

• Responsible for regional component and material development for safety critical applications, including homologation and customer approvals • Executed localisation of Material and Components in Europe • Collaboration with Sr. Management on studies for consolidation of supply, vertical integration, leading of in- and outsourcing projects • Established Prototype Manufacturing Departments in Engineering Center

• Development of advanced concepts for integration of components in close collaboration with major OEMs • Initiated development of new materials and local supply • Conducted material/component validation testing and homologation, designed test equipment

• Aufbau von Testeinrichtungen • Versuchsdurchführung an Abfüll- und Verpackungsmaschinen • Inbetriebnahme einer Stretch-Blow-Moulding Linie für Sterilprodukte beim Kunden in Frankreich

Konstruktion - Optik - Elektronik