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With collective competence and experience, we focus on practice-oriented training that enables you to achieve excellent performance, instead of gray theory only. Our trainers have been working as managers and executives within industry for many years and are therefore very familiar with your tasks and challenges.
We accompany you along your individual learning journey, far beyond the mere transfer of knowledge. And we do so in an authentic, approachable, and accessible way at eye level.


Peter Ullrich
Peter Ullrich hat mehr als 20 Jahre Erfahrung in der Optimierung von technischen Abläufen und Geschäftsprozessen und über 15 Jahre Erfahrung als Trainer und Begleiter von Change-Prozessen.
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Thomas Albrecht

Thomas Albrecht

Sebastian Bardy

Sebastian Bardy

Jonathan Bauer

Jonathan Bauer
Jonathan Bauer has more than seven years of practical experience in offering business and performance management consulting service to industrial and commercial organizations. He specializes in preparing sustainability concepts, footprint and profit improvement projects along with their long-term implementation in the automotive, automotive construction, textile, food, and mechanical and plant engineering industries.

Dr. Dirk Bayas-Linke

Dr. Dirk Bayas-Linke

Yannic Blessin

Yannic Blessin
Yannic Blessin completed a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the DHBW Mannheim and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Graduate School Rhein-Neckar. From 2016, he acquired expertise in the optimization and redesign of production and quality assurance areas in his role as a project engineer at PFW Aerospace GmbH, a supplier of fuel tanks, structural components and piping systems for the aviation industry. Later, he was in charge of setting up the central Manufacturing Metrology function and successfully implemented process-integrated, standardized economic quality inspections. Before joining SEW-EURODRIVE GmbH & Co KG, Yannic Blessin was an external consultant and was tasked with Lean Management and Task Force projects.

Dominik Bühlmann

Dominik Bühlmann
Dominik Bühlmann has been working as a consultant at Staufen.Inova AG since 2015.

Jérôme Cieplik

Jérôme Cieplik
In his role at WIEPROconsulting Global Logistics Planning, Jérôme Cieplik is primarily responsible for the realization of standardization and change projects at international locations. Moreover, he has also been assigned the role as Global Process Owner Outbound Logistics.
He initiates and accompanies integrated change projects relating to material and information flow design, and also standardization projects relating to logistics and assembly processes.

Pierre Cloth

Pierre Cloth

Christian Czejka

Christian Czejka

Dominic Decker

Dominic Decker

Michael Feldmeth

Michael Feldmeth

Verena Franz

Verena Franz

Moritz Gadow

Moritz Gadow
Moritz Gadow focuses on integrated optimization approaches with value stream design, the design of synchronized assembly systems and has expertise in value stream-oriented factory design, incorporating the optimization of assembly and logistics processes.

David Gänsbacher

David Gänsbacher
With more than 15 years of professional experience in the automotive sector and as a consultant at Staufen AG in Italy and Germany, plus international project experience (Europe, Asia, North and South America), he offers management training and coaching for process and leadership excellence.
Frank Gröner
Frank Gröner

Alexander Gutbrod

Alexander Gutbrod

Jürgen Hammer

Jürgen Hammer
He gained more than 5 years of industrial experience in machinery and plant engineering and more than 1 year as Interim Manager in the field of industrialization furthermore outstanding more than 16 years experience as Management Consultant, Lead Trainer and Coach.
His reference projects are the development of a global footprint for a globally active American pump manufacturer and the development of a European footprint for a global Swiss elevator manufacturer. He also managed oprational excellence programs in the areas of energy supply, passenger transportation and supply engineering and an holistic optimization of order fulfillment processes in the machinery and plant engineering sector. The factory planning of greenfield and brownfield factories in connection with Industry 4.0 concludes his profile.

Lutz Herborn

Lutz Herborn
His experience and competencies lie in supply chain management and operational excellence, extensive industrial experience in production planning of an automotive manufacturer, strong knowledge in lean management as well as methodological and technical competencies in process mining.
His reference projects include the optimization of a material supply process in a medium-sized company on the basis of lean manufacturing methods, the implementation of an innovative process mining model for supply chain planning, the structuring and introduction of a uniform schedule control for cross-departmental project management and the introduction of store floor management in the indirect area.

Mariana Hergl

Mariana Hergl
With a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she acquired her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt in France. Her wide-ranging expertise spans many different aspects of process optimization and Lean Management.
As an experienced trainer, Mariana supports future Lean experts and trainers on their career paths while inspiring them with the content of diverse areas – from the basics of Lean Management to topics specific to production.

Dr. Alexandra Hey

Dr. Alexandra Hey
Alexandra Hey gained more than 20 years experience as internal and external consultant with 6 years as an expatriate. She gained extensive leadership experience with 2 years as Executive Board Member of a German insurance company. As reference projects there is to name the transformation of two energy companies introducing lean and agile. Also the process improvement and digitalization as well as implementation of Shop Floor Management in indirect areas of various clients. The trains and coaches internal change agents, project leaders and leaders.

Dusan Kalabic

Dusan Kalabic

Jens Kittlitz

Jens Kittlitz

Jens Kohlhaas

Jens Kohlhaas

Janice Köser

Janice Köser

Lukas Kreinest

Lukas Kreinest
With several years of professional experience in the automotive and supplier industry, in plant engineering and in the semiconductor industry, Lukas Kreinest also offers expertise as a Lean Consultant – primarily in the areas of production and logistics.

Detlef Kuhn

Detlef Kuhn
Detlef Kuhn initiates and accompanies integrated change projects in the areas of material and information flow design, process optimization and layout design, including MAXOLUTION system solutions. Furthermore, he leads training programs in Lean Production and conducts Best Practice Days.

Vincent Kurtz

Vincent Kurtz

Axel Davila Lage

Axel Davila Lage
He is a qualified expert in the areas of OEE improvement, TPM and maintenance, occupational safety, strategy development, Shop Floor Management and the design and implementation of production systems.

Michael Metzger

Michael Metzger

Christian Möllers

Christian Möllers
The impact of lean on key business figures
Christian Möllers studied business economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, focusing on finance, accounting and taxation. After completing his studies, Christian Möllers worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers AG WPG for five years, where he lastly conducted various auditing and consulting projects as Senior Consultant. Within the scope of these activities, he obtained a solid, cross-sectoral financial analysis. Subsequently, he joined BK-Partners Asset Management in Mexico, where he was responsible for a variety of due diligence projects in financial and strategic analysis of various international investment opportunities. Since 2013 Christian Möllers has been working at Staufen AG in the restructuring of medium-sized companies.

Irina Müller-Fibian

Irina Müller-Fibian

Sebastian Nett

Sebastian Nett
Since 2018 Sebastian Nett has been a consultant for Staufen AG, supporting his customers in holistic lean transformations in the electronics and automotive industries. He analyzes processes end-to-end by using value stream analysis and design, reduces complexity in production processes through suitable segmentation of the underlying product portfolio and designs and optimizes production and logistics processes of the product value streams.

Maja von Olnhausen

Maja von Olnhausen

Maja von Olnhausen

Maja von Olnhausen
Over many years, Maja von Olnhausen launched and accompanied improvement projects at the Graben-Neudorf production and assembly plant and the Bruchsal large gear unit plant. She primarily concentrated on interlinking systems, operating concepts, optimizing setup times and material flows and redesigning assembly workstations.
Since 2016, Maja von Olnhausen has been involved in development focusing on process analysis and the design of administrative processes. They include the accompanying communication, interface analysis as well as the required knowledge management. She also oversees the conceptual development and rollout of tools for development projects involving interdisciplinary stakeholders. She played a key role in developing and launching sustainability processes. She was responsible for project management of the preliminary project for the new implementation of a PLM domain.

Remco Peters

Remco Peters

Marco Pett

Marco Pett

Max Reintke

Max Reintke
Maximilian Reintke specializes in strategic and operational improvement initiatives across the entire logistics and production value stream (SMT and THT production) and particularly in the introduction of Shop Floor Management and its extension to Green Shop Floor Management. Additionally, he is a coach and leads KATA improvement projects.

Nicolas Romfeld

Nicolas Romfeld

Andreas Schillinger

Andreas Schillinger

Sebastian Schneider

Sebastian Schneider
His reference projects include the implementation of a lean culture in the steel industry, the establishment of a communication system based on lean criteria in operations and administration (shopfloor management), and reorganization and organizational development in the fiber optics and automotive industries.

Gunter Schöller

Gunter Schöller

Christian Schurr

Christian Schurr
With his team he built several U-cells and optimized the assembly to a lean flow production.
Since 2017, Christian Schurr is a consultant in the production and logistics team at Staufen AG and since 2019 he is employed as a Project Manager.

Johann Soder

Johann Soder
After his apprenticeship as an energy system electronics technician, he took over the management of electronics production in 1995. As plant manager, he was responsible for for the Bruchsal location. Under his management, within 5 years an innovative electronics plant with state-of-the-art production and logistics processes. In 2000 he founded WIEPROconsulting, an organization that designs and optimizes business processes throughout the company. In October 2005, he was appointed Managing Director Production; from October 2007, as Managing Director Technology, he is responsible for the areas of innovation and production. Since March 2018, as COO, he has been in charge of the operating business of SEW-EURODRIVE, one of the global market leaders in the field of drive technology/drive automation. It employs 18,000 people worldwide. 16 manufacturing plants and 80 DriveTechnologyCenters in 51 countries provide global presence, best service and fast availability.

Gerrit Speidel

Gerrit Speidel
With three years of consulting experience specializing in the optimization of indirect processes, Gerrit Speidel has also acquired over
ten years of professional experience as an engineer with responsibility for development, acting as team leader and project manager at an international automotive supplier, plus intercultural leadership experience as team leader of a development team in a service center in the Czech Republic.

Thomas Spiess

Thomas Spiess
Thomas Spiess has been working for Staufen Inova since 2015.

Freda von Stackelberg

Freda von Stackelberg

Eric Nils Timmer

Eric Nils Timmer

Peter Ullrich

Peter Ullrich

Uwe Vogel

Uwe Vogel
As a consultant, Uwe Vogel has been engaged in the profit-oriented concepts and implementation of strategic initiatives (Lean Transformation, restructuring, strategic realignment) for many years. Uwe has also gained many years of experience as a coach for top management with a strong market and customer focus.

Rainer Völker

Rainer Völker
Alongside his many years of experience as a consultant, coach and trainer in an international project environment, he has in-depth practical experience in successfully managing interdisciplinary transformation projects with clear responsibility for results. Rainer Völker specializes in the systematic design of change processes and has extensive industry expertise, particularly in mechanical and automotive engineering, pharmaceuticals, process industries and medical technology.
With more than 10 years of experience in consulting projects, Rainer Völker focuses on integrated transformation processes, operational excellence and implementing sustainable lean methods in all areas of an organization. He also brings strong intercultural skills to the table, in part thanks to several professional stays abroad.

Dirk Wettlaufer

Dirk Wettlaufer

Marc Wiedmann

Marc Wiedmann
Within WIEPROconsulting, Mr. Wiedmann is primarily responsible for the implementation of change projects at international locations, focused on Asia, as well as market launch processes in the product development.
He initiates and supports comprehensive change projects that deal with the topics of material and information flow design, process optimization and layout design.
Furthermore, Mr. Kuhn also leads training sessions about value-stream-analysis and -design.

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf
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Peter Ullrich
Peter Ullrich can look back on 20 years of experience in optimizing technical workflows and business processes and over 15 years of experience as a trainer and facilitator of change processes.