Dipl.-Ing. Peter Spiekermann

Identify potentials for cost reduction, Assess feasibility, Coordinate the work of different departments, Present and defend the elaborations to Senior Management, Organize and conduct workshops.

Manual Transmissions and Automated Manual Transmissions, Execution of all Program Management activities, Scheduling, Change Management, Project Control, Risk Management, Meeting administration, Moderation of complex development processes in powertrain and vehicle, Assess the interaction of different vehicle systems, Status reports to senior management, Trainings and workshops, Accompany bachelor and master theses, train new employees.

Planning and Management of prototype builds, Leader of working groups, Locations worldwide, multilingual teams, Coordination and control of construction plans, Communication with development suppliers and design.

Volga JV/Russia, Fiat-GM Diesel Engines. Project Management, Change Management, Scheduling, Presentation of the program status to senior management. Relocation of production facilities from Germany. Training of the successor for this position.

Poly-V belt drive, Auxiliary motor units, Timing belt drive. Reports to Project Management Teams (PMT), Cooperation with development centers and suppliers worldwide.

Planning of production processes and systems, Functional leader of engineers with special functions. Evaluation of suppliers and machine concepts, Support for Supplier Quality.

Concepts for fully flexible, agile production facilities.

Planning and Management for conversion of the production facilities, Production support for cylinder block and connecting rod lines, CIP (Continuous Improvement Process), Capacity increase, Model Year transitions.

Production Engineering, Machine Planning. Locations in Germany, Europe and USA, Development of new production concepts, Cost estimates, Economic Feasibility studies, International project teams, DFM/DFA (Design for Manufacturing/Assembly), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis).

Project work and test execution for milling technology, Work with CAD systems Auto-CAD and Pro/Engineer, Preparation of reports, Acquisition of new projects, Functional training of new employees.

CIP, FMEA, Red-X, Design of Experiments, Shainin, DFSS, Robust Engineering, Bottleneck management (Theory of Constraints), Engine Design, Statistical process evaluation (qs-STAT), Change Management, Value Stream Mapping, Internal Trainers, Project Management (PMI), Team Building, Communication

Study theses: 1. Milling cutter with a shaft of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. 2. Milling processing, using 2D-Layer-Technique as rapid prototyping process. Diploma thesis: Simulation of the thermal behavior of hydrostatically supported ultra-precision spindles using the finite element method.