Dr Johannes Krämer, Head Automotive Business Unit, IFAO Inc., Karlsruhe/Germany 

Dr Johannes Kraemer joined the IFAO Inc. as consultant in 1990 and since 1998 he leads the Business Unit Automotive at the IFAO Inc.. His major competences are in the fields of implementation of production systems, process optimization within production, and the accomplishment of reengineering projects for development, planning and production worldwide. 

Courses:

• Selected Methods of Production Optimization / Lean Manufacturing

Mr Norbert Archinger, Senior Consultant IFAO Inc., Karlsruhe/Germany 

During his activity for DaimlerChrysler Inc. Mr Archinger has developed trend-setting concepts for material supply and material transportation. He was member of the team which implemented a new, standardized production and logistics system at DaimlerChrysler. Since joining the IFAO Inc. in 2003 Mr Archinger is responsible for international projects in the field of logistics and information management.  

Courses:

• Selected Methods of Production Optimization / Lean Manufacturing
• Visit of Factories ᾿Best-Practice Examples of Lean Manufacturing in China
• Inventory Management
• Transportation Optimization 

About IFAO Inc. (www.ifao.de) 

Since 1979 IFAO is an acknowledged partner of big and medium-sized companies in the automotive, machine-building, electronics, pharmaceuticals and chemicals industry. The IFAO Inc., located in Karlsruhe, Germany, employs 550 people and has subsidiaries in the United States, Switzerland and Brazil.  

Mr Thorsten Hohls, born in 1966, is management expert and works as independent consultant and trainer for industrial organization, corporate development, work system design, process optimization and planning and controlling.

 Courses:

• Analyzing, Optimizing and Managing Business Processes Successfully
• Integrated Management of Organization and Processes
• Cost Reduction in Production
• The Balanced Scorecard

Present projects of Mr Thorsten Hohls are the planning and implementation of a business process reengineering project at Linde KCA Dresden, personnel requirement planning at Krone Inc. Berlin and Siemens Inc. Erlangen, a project in the field of administration modernization for the Government of the Federal State Saxony/Germany dealing with the introduction of advanced controlling methods, and the establishment of a company-specific Balanced Scorecard model at the Hungarian subsidiary of Claas, Germany.

Mr Tobias Reggelin, Research Fellow and Consultant, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF), Magdeburg/Germany (www.iff.fraunhofer.de)

Mr Tobias Reggelin holds a MSc in Engineering Management from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA (with affliated institutes specialized as a technology-based business incubator and new product development center), and a MSc Logistics and Industrial Engineering from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdedurg. At the IFF Mr Reggelin is responsible for management games –tools which are results from empirical research on corporate and production management techniques and based upon the principle of guided learning-by-doing in a team and step-by-step. As a tool of practice simulation management games provide participants with hands-on experience otherwise only gained after many years of professional experience.

Courses:

• From Functional Orientation to Process and Customer Orientation
• Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM) with Spare Parts Management
• Production Logistics

About IFF (www.iff.fraunhofer.de)

The numerous Fraunhofer Institutes ᾿part of the German Fraunhofer Society ᾿are engines of enterprise innovation in the fields of product development, new technologies, operations and management. They combine application-oriented research with implementation-oriented consultancy work while being enterprising economic entities themselves. One particular strength of the IFF is it‘s department for management games, a highly efficient tool for engineering change.

Dr. Bernd Gimpel, Owner of Quality Engineers Ltd.

Dr.-Eng. Bernd Gimpel, born in 1961, worked during his studies of mechanical engineering at one of the Fraunhofer Institutes where he formed the core of a new quality management team. After getting his doctorate Dr. Gimpel worked as managing director of a consulting firm until 1996 when he founded Quality Engineers Ltd.. His main work areas are supporting product development processes, trouble shooting, risk analysis, innovation management and preventive quality management. Dr. Gimpel applies following tools and methods: Benchmarking, FMEA, DoE, TRIZ, PM, QFD, R&R, SPC and Process Capability (cp, cpk).

Courses:

• Systematic Solution of Quality Problems
• Systematic Product Development

About Quality Engineers Ltd. (www.qeweb.de)

Customers of Dr. Gimpel come from various sectors of industry and include Philips, Porsche, Siemens, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Continental, TRW, BMW, 3M, Coca-Cola, BorgWarner, BASF, TetraPak, Rohde & Schwarz, Kuka, Bosch, Opel, Saint-Gobain, ZF, Vaillant, Unilever, Johnson Controls, Kodak, Mann + Hummel, Roche und Müller Weingarten.

Mr Thomas Jung, CEO, T&O Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Munich/Germany

Mr. Thomas Jung, born in 1957, started his career in international maritime transport management at Hapag-Lloyd Inc..Since 1984 he works in industrial consulting, his work areas include logistics and production systems, fabrication planning and business process organization. As one of the founders of T&O he is CEO and involved in major customer projects.

Courses:

• Factory Planning and Design (Stage I): Optimizing Material Flow and Factory Layout
• Space-Saving Solutions for Fast-Growing Plants

Mr Alexander Rehn, Director, T & O Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Munich/Germany

Mr Alexander Rehn, born in 1967, started his career as logistics manager in the electronics industry.Today he is one of the 4 partners of T&O and responsible for the business areas supply chain management, product management and process organization.

Courses:

• Design, Tools and Implemenation of an integrated Production System

Mr Thomas Haugg, Senior Consultant, T & O Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Munich/Germany

Mr Haugg, born in 1966, had been head of the department for production control and material planning department at a leading German machine-building enterprise for many years. He developed IT-solutions to optimize the application of ERP systems. In the last year his main task had been the optimization of production systems with several major European industrial companies. He is also an acknowledged expert for business excellence.

Courses:

• Factory Planning and Design (Stage I): Optimizing Material Flow and Factory Layout
• Optimizing Material Management

Mr Ralf Gleixner, Senior Consultant, T & O Business Consulting Co., Ltd., Munich/Germany

Mr Ralf Gleixner, born 1966, had been production manager in a leading German automotive supply company for gear systems. His core competences are the implementation of integrated production systems and the training of management staff in the area of improvement and efficiency-increase programs. He carries the green belt and is in charge of Six Sigma workshops at T&O.

Courses:

• Design, Tools and Implemenation of an integrated Production System
• Six Sigma

About T & O (www.tundo.de)

T&O Business Consulting Co., Ltd. belongs to the leading implementation-oriented consulting firms in Germany. Areas of activity are business development, business excellence and turnaround management. T&O has particular core competences in the fields of production systems and factory planning, supply chain management and product management,company management and controlling. The headquarters of T&O are situated in Munich/Germany, and more than 35 consultants are working on projects in Central and Eastern Europe, USA and Asia.

Clients of the T&O are large corporations as Agfa, Bombardier (Adtranz), Alcatel, AVL List, German Rail Companies, Swiss Rail, Federal Mogul, Krones, Carl Zeiss, ZF Sachs, ZF Steyr as well as mid- sized companies as Alfmeier, Avis, Elba, Frimo, Heidenhain, Kässbohrer, Storz and Süss Micro Tec.

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Klevers, Partner and Senior Consultant GEPRO Co., Ltd.

Dr. Klevers, born in 1958, is one of Germany’s leading experts in the area of lean manufacturing and value stream design. After several years with a Fraunhofer Institute he joined GEPRO Co., Ltd., a internationally well reputated consulting company spezializing in designing and implementing future-oriented production structures. Dr. Klevers has accomplished many consulting projects, also in China, for numerous well-known industrial corporations, and has produced various publications on the issue of value stream mapping.

Courses:

• Lean Manufacturing: Acceleration of Processes with Value Stream Mapping

About GEPRO Co., Ltd. (www.gepro.com)

Established in 1978, GEPRO Ltd. has consulted many industrial corporations in the areas of production engineering, lean manufacturing, and efficient improvement. Substainable and remarkable improvements are the characterics of GEPRO consultancy work. GEPRO was founded by Prof. Dr. Eversheim, one of the leading academics in production engineering worldwide.

Customers of GEPRO include Thyssen, Voith, Bosch, Miele, Porsche, Terex and many other large or medium-sized industrial companies. Projects have been accomplished worldwide, including most European countries, USA, China, Singapore, Brazil and Indonesia.

Mr Hans Rusch was for many years head of factory planning at Swiss concern Sulzer and later general manager in Europe and Latin America. In 1997 Mr Rusch came to China to become general manager of KSB, an Equity Joint-Venture. He made extraordinary contributions to the long-term success of KSB China. Since early 2001 Mr Rusch works as consultant mainly in the field of HR where he has made outstanding practical experiences and has a deep understanding of practical issues.

Ms. Dan Zhu is management trainer and consultant with particular expertise in business communication and organizational development. Before joining Rainbow Consulting as managing partner Ms. Zhu worked in Europe for Van Melle Confectionary, the Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport and for other European companies.

Courses:

• HR for Expat Managers in China: Leading Local Personnel
• Mastering Employee Fluctuation: Retention Programs and other Measures
• Training in Personnel Assessment: Methods, Techniques and Evaluation

Mr David Zhao, Senior Consultant

Mr Zhaom is management trainer and consultant with special expertise in the areas of project management, leadership, sales negotiation and supply chain management. Mr Zhao is certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA. Mr Zhao worked for KSB Pump Manufacturing and GE Power Systems in various managerial positions and as trainer for Achieve Gloobal and ESI international. He delivered courses in project management, schedulding and cost control to companies as ABB, BASF, GE, Toshiba, Honeywell and others.

About Rainbow Consulting Ltd. (www.rainbowcareer.com)

Rainbow Consulting Ltd. is an international management consulting and training firm with a Dutch background, founded in 1996. Areas of competence are executive assessment, competence modeling and organization development as well as cross-culture management.

Customers of Rainbow Consulting Co. include ABB, ABN AMRO, Alcatel, AstraZeneca, Allianz Dazhong, BP, Braun, Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank, DSM, Edward Keller Group, Ericsson, Legend Group, Lucent Technologies, Novartis, Roche, Schering-Plough, Sachs, Siemens, Standard Chartered Bank and Volvo.

Mr Patrick de Brisson, Laywer, HHP Shanghai

Mr de Brisson gained admission as attorney to the Paris Bar in 2002 and joined HHP Shanghai in 2003. His major fields of expertise are the establishment of companies in China, reorganisation of foreign-invested companies, IPR protection and technology transfers.

Courses:

• Exit Strategies for Equity Joint Ventures (II) Ἷ day
• Legal Protection for Industrial Property: How to develop a Defense Strategy

About Haarmann, Hemmelrath and Partners (www.haarmannhemmelrath.com)

Mr Markus Kaehler has worked for many as consultant for IT security and IT business processes to major European corporations. As chief security officer (CSO) with Unisys Germany he was responsible for the secure and reliable operation of the IT-infrastructure at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. Mr Markus Kaehler works as independent management and IT consultant.

Courses:

• Production Factor IT: IT-Security and IT-Stability

About Virtuarch (www.virtuarch.net)

Virtuarch is an architecture firm which has special expertise in the areas of interior design, refurbishment and expansion of plants, R & D centers and offices. Customers of Virtuarch are Aesculap, Birkart Globistics, Bitzer, Blum, B. Braun, Credit Suisse, DEG, Enersave, Freudenberg, GTZ, KfW, Krantz-TKT, Lufthansa, Mannesmann Demag, Novartis, Sartorius, Schindler, Swedbank, Swissair, ThyssenKrupp Transrapid, Voith Turbo and Voith Paper.

Mr Goeffrey Mills, Founder and Director of SIP Group, Shanghai

Courses:

• Factory Planning and Design (Stage II): From the concept design through the approval process to construction

Mr Ian Riley, General Manager of SIP Consulting Co., Ltd., Beijing

• Exit Strategies for Equity Joint Ventures (I)

About SIP Group (www.sipgroup.com)

The SIP Group, an UK-invested wholly-foreign owned enterprise with it‘s headquarters in Shanghai, was established in 1993. The mission of SIP is to guide industrial clients through three stages of factoryplanning, from concept to design and construction. Clients hold the SIP Group China, consisting of more than 50 employees including numerous expat and Chinese experts, in high esteem for it’s professionalism.

Major corporations, especially from the United Kingdom and the USA, are belonging to the customer base of the SIP, namely Unilever, Firmenich, Holset, BASF, Akzo Nobel, Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Shell, American Standard, 3M, Domino Coding, Glaxo, Rolls-Royce, Cosco, BP, IDS, Seepex Seeberger and Volvo.  

Since joining CB Richasrd Ellis in 2003 Mr a’Beckett has been responsible for the leasing of major properties in and around Shanghai and the Yangtse Delta Region. Major clients he represented include HP, Federal Mogul, Eastman Chemical, Genheral Motors, Visteon, Donaldson, Haworth, Intel, UPS and Fujita.

Courses:

• Finding the right Site, finding the right Building

About CB Richard Ellis (www.cbre.com)

CB Richard Ellis is one of the leading firms in real estate services in the world.

After his study of information technology Dr. Radetzky participated with various scientifc projects. He led the development of a simulation and control system at the Imporial College in London. He has several years of professional experience in RFID technology and published more than 40 articles on the subject in international scientifc journals.

• Info-Workshop RFID technology with particular focus on manufacturing control

About aCura(www.acura-it.de)

ACura is technology and consulting firm which was established in 1996 with a strong background in the space and aircraft industry. Acura belongs to the pioneers of RFID technology in Europe and has outstanding competences in the consulting, development and implemenation of RFID technology.

Mr Bernd Frehe. During his long-term acivity for Volkswagen as plant coordinator for CIP Mr Frehe gained a lot of experience which he shares now as management consultant wth his industrial clients.

www.camdltd.com
CAMD is a Canadian owned learning company that specializes in team performance improvement solutions. The founder and managing director, Paul von Wittgenstein, has been assisting multinational companies in China for since 1998.

We understand global market requirements for improved in effective leadership, professional management, business communications and other soft skills. We assess company and learner needs, then design and implement the appropriate improvement programs to help them reach business goals.

CAMD uses a very practical and hands-on methodology. Our unique project-based, action learning approach clearly demonstrates measurable results for return on investment.