Dr. Jens Mehlich

Product development / Design-to-X: • Conducting product cost analysis and developing parametric cost models • Analyse and optimise customer value • Implementing target cost approaches • Developing and implementing digital interfaces • Benchmarking activities Production: • Plan and design manufacturing technologies • Optimise production processes • Optimization of the vertical value chain Adopting and transitioning to digital manufacturing processes and building smart factories

Establishing global product and service organizations and implementing new typs of business models around digitalization. Establish and introduce cross-vendor ecosystems for both cloud-based and on-premises services in manufacturing and production. Driving digital transformation at Hoffmann, customers and suppliers by realizing edge devices in production and achieving Industrie 4.0 readiness for small, medium and large enterprises, for example.

Restructuring of a manufacturing company into an efficient, flexible and batch size-independent production company - as a proof of concept for Digitalization. Establishment cross-system and cross-supplier digital process chains from product development through production planning and supply chain to delivery. Development and implementation automated product configurators for the implementation of product modularization, system-guided inventory management along the entire internal and external supply chain.

Organisational and process-related realignment of the entire financial controlling organisation. Directing investment and product development resources to sustainably achieve the operational and strategic goals of the Brose Group worldwide. Centralisation of transactional processes and activities.

• Stellverteter Leiter des Werkeverbunds (München, Salzgitter, Krakau, Steyr, St. Petersburg, Bánovce, Pinetown), 10.500 Mitarbeiter • Technische Leitung: Industrial Engineering, Planung, Instandhaltung (ca. 780 Mitarbeiter weltweit): - Strategische Ausrichtung und Restrukturierung des Werkeverbunds - Organisatorische und technologische Transformation der Werke - Prozessoptimierung u.a. durch Digitalisierung / Standardisierung - Produktentwicklung: Design for Manufacturing

Development and expansion of the entire product, production and plant controlling: • Establishment of central technology and investment management within the plant network • Integration of commercial business and control processes into a central organisation • Optimisation of product costs: Target costing for new products, product and process benchmarking • Develop and extend make-or-buy decision processes and committees • Encourage controlling staff to question and think holistically

Established and managed the first European McKinsey Design-to-Cost Centre (Department for Product Analytics) and initiated the international roll-out • Process optimisation in product development, production and maintenance • Ensuring the profitability of new products through design-to-value • Productbenchmarks • Value engineering • Design-to-cost • Customer value analysis • Target cost derivation and -management Restructuring and footprint optimisation for automotive OEMs and supplier

• Setting up, staffing and managing the technology transfer department. • Maturation, validation and introduction of new manufacturing and tooling technologies into large-scale production (plastic injection molding, stamping, metal processing) • Efficiency and quality increases in production through automation of existing production islands and material recycling (esp. PP)

• Development and industrialisation of new manufacturing processes in the field of plastics and metal processing • Planning and realisation of large-scale production systems in worldwide plant distribution

Project Manager and Development Engineer • Product Development in the Field of Automotive Heat Protection • Coordination of Test Programs for Process Definition

Development and management of the special plant construction division - focus on • additive manufacturing processes • sintering technology • Measurement/control and automation technology

Development of a new low-temperature joining technology with applications in the field of sensors, microsystems and semiconductor technology

Manufacturing processes and materials technology (metals)