Dr. Max Peymandar

Responsible for the development and industrialization of high-value steel products as well as process optimization across production, quality and sales. - Development of new high-strength steel products for deep-drawing applications - Process optimization and continuous process stabilization - International customer support and technical service - Cross-functional project leadership - Continuous improvement initiatives - Product industrialization and scale-up - Complaint Manager

Responsibilities - Product management for Steel, Steel Casting and Heat Treatment - International customer support & tech. consulting - Cross-functional collaboration with software development and sales - Product roadmap and feature definition Key Achievements - Introduced new simulation functions for heat treatment - Led cross-functional development projects - Supported customers worldwide in process optimization - Delivered international product presentations and technical workshops

Responsibilities - Development of investment casting components - Process optimization - Metallurgical investigations - Root cause analysis - Quality improvement Key Achievements - Technical commissioning of foundry equipment - Supported optimization of investment casting processes - Contributed to product quality improvements - Reduced technical risks during product development

Responsibilities - R&D - Melting shop - Materials development - Quality management - Process optimization - Technical customer support Leadership - Disciplinary and technical leadership of a multidisciplinary team of 14 engineers, technicians and production staff. Key Achievements - Reduced scrap rate to below 0.5 % - Introduced new metallurgical treatment concepts - Increased production yield - Won strategic customer projects - Optimized casting quality by metallurgical process improvements

Responsibilities - Metallurgical process development - Production support - Project management - Process optimization Key Achievements - Supported development of new cast iron grades - Improved metallurgical process stability - Contributed to production quality improvements

Steel ab initio, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB 761) Research focus: - High-Mn steels - Recycling technologies - Electric Arc Furnace - Thermodynamics - Slag metallurgy - Steelmaking - Scientific publications