14th FMEA Forum in Osnabrück

Winfried Dietz is the founder and managing partner of DIETZ Consultants with subsidiaries in Asia and North America. He shoulders the responsibility of the FMEA business area development. Winfried Dietz has more than 30 years of practical experience, 25 years thereof as a consultant, trainer and coach. Other areas of interest and work include APQP, 8D, PPAP and functional safety and their interactions. Winfried Dietz is the organiser of the annual Osnabrück FMEA Forum.

Adam Schnellbach is Lead Engineer Safety Methods and Analyses at AVL List GmbH in Graz since 2017. In this role he is responsible for the development and optimization of methods and analyses related to functional safety and cyber security. Before that, Adam Schnellbach was Functional Safety Group Leader at Magna Powertrain from 2010 until 2017. In this position he was responsible for all safety engineering and safety management related activities, including the definition of safety concepts, safety analyses, the continuous improvement of the related processes and safety assessments. Prior to this, since 2009, Adam Schnellbach was Functional Safety Expert for predevelopment projects and concept studies at Magna Powertrain. Until 2009, Adam Schnellbach worked at Thyssenkrupp Presta Steering. Adam Schnellbach holds a Master’s degree of Mechanical Engineering (faculty Road vehicle engineering) from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and a PhD degree of Mechanical Engineering from the Graz University of Technology.

Mr Schloske is a senior expert at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering
and Automation IPA in Stuttgart. He has several years of project experience in quality
management, in the most diverse sectors. Professionally, his points of main effort involve
methodical FMEA-based product and process optimisation operations, as well as the
safeguarding (as per ISO 26262) of mechatronic systems vis-à-vis the aspect of ‘functional
safety’. He delivers lectures on quality management at the University of Stuttgart; also
on the topic of quality management in product development at the Vienna University of
Technology. He is a speaker at various educational institutions, such as the German Society
for Quality e.V. (DGQ).

Lukas Dörfel is the Head of the Austrian branch ofeaHea CONTEXT AG in Munich. The company primarily provides support to clients from the automobile industry in the implementation of quality methods and application of functional safety in product development. Mr Dörfel has studied Industrial and mechanical engineering with a specialisation in production technology at TU Graz and has been with CONTEXT since 2012. During his time there, he has gained comprehensive experience in FMEA application – whether it with the vehicle as a whole or with its hardware and software details. In addition to project-specific application of established methods, he has also been involved in the further development and adaptation of the same.

Dr. Jarosch is a senior expert in quality methodology and tools. In that capacity, he shoulders the responsibility for the development, implementation and application of a CAQ system for advance planning and production support in 6 regions and approx. 70 locations worldwide. As a mechanical engineer, he developed industrial beam sources at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology. It then progressed to him assuming the role of a production and development manager. For 15 years, Dr. Jarosch has been active in the automotive supply industry with the letter Q (Quality management) to his credit. It is a crucial concern of Dr. Jarosch to further develop Q-methods, to network them and to establish them as interdisciplinary standards not only in-house, but also in research and working groups. He has been a moderator and trainer for many years. The FMEA plays a key role as an active development tool and a firmly anchored tool for circulation of knowledge along the entire value chain.

Mr. Pfeufer has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. He is the project leader of the German harmonization for the AIAG and VDA FMEA handbook. Mr. Pfeufer is independent as a trainer and examiner for quality management systems, core tools as well as other methods active and Witness auditor IATF 16949. He is active in the VDA-QMC and the DGQ with decisive co-operation in different publications. and was active with the BMW AG Munich till the middle of 2014 in different functions. He was responsible for methodology application and process analyses in problem solving teams and task forces, milestone management, technical specification process in the power train development as well as the corporate quality and audit program manager. He studied vehicle technology in Cologne as well as automotive engineering at RWTH Aachen and qualified as a value analyst, DGQ-Instructor statistics, DGQ/EOQ auditor, certificated auditor IATF 16949, process auditor VDA 6.3, and acted as EFQM/LEP senior assessor. As a method specialist he headed the VDA working groups FMEA, and special characteristic. 

After schooling in Windhoek Namibia and Bonn Germany Mr. Hellwig finalized his Master in Mechanical Engineering in Pretoria South Africa. At Bosch he gained more than 27 years of experience as SQE in the automotive section at plants in South Africa, Italy and Germany. By now he has traveled to all the Regions, getting involved with many manufacturing processes at the suppliers all over the world.

Mr. Hellwig is responsible for the newly introduced FMEA Coordinator function at the Corporate Sector Purchasing and Logistics at the Bosch GmbH. His main task is to support and train the 1000 SQE’s worldwide to improve their Process-FMEA skills and the P-FMEA’s at our automotive suppliers.

This entails the setup of an internal FMEA-Multiplicator network, coaching, support on site, FMEA workshops, FMEA-Assessments, Supplier days, Training and defining the FMEA-related procedures.

As the product management director of KAPP NILES Group in Coburg, Konstantin Schäfer has defined the digitalisation product strategy since the beginning of the year 2017. In addition, Mr. Schäfer is also a part of the FMEA core team of KAPP NILES for the integration of FMEA into the development process. In his professional career, he has gathered experience as a management consultant in the joint ventures of Daimler in Beijing and BMW in Shenyang; Prior to that he worked in start-up management at Volkswagen in the USA and also in a development project in Germany in Guatemala. After graduating as an industrial engineer, Mr. Schäfer trained at the Technical University of Clausthal, and specialised in production and processes.