15th 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.

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).

Riccardo Stüber is the Senior Specialist for FMEA at Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co KG in Herzogenaurach. After several years in quality assurance, Stüber (a qualified electronics technician) has been a design, process, and logistics FMEA moderator and specialist for 10 years now.

Wolfgang Hinrichs is responsible for FMEA analyses of passenger car driver assistance systems in the Center Assistance Systems and Active Safety at Mercedes-Benz AG. He has many years of experience as a development engineer for driving dynamics control systems, braking systems and driver assistance systems. As a member of the AIAG/VDA FMEA Alignment Working Group, he played a key role in writing the chapter FMEA-MSR of the FMEA Handbook.

Managing Director of Sollence^® GmbH in Krefeld. His core competencies are integrated quality, information security, data protection, and (IT) service management systems, as well as service excellence. In addition to his work as a consultant, he has been auditing such management systems since 2007 as a DQS Excellence Auditor. He is also a trainer and expert in DGQ (German Association for Quality) further training, with a focus on quality management, information security, and auditor development.
He is author and co-author of various publications on management systems, risk management, and information security.

Penetration tester in the fields of web, mobile, and embedded security, and since 2004, “Data Privacy and Security” project field manager at T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH.
His specialist areas are infrastructure and application security, penetration tests, and source code analyses. He also works as a lecturer for various educational institutions in the field of security awareness and hacking. He is certified as an ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, Certified Ethical Hacker, and TeleTrusT Information Security Professional (TISP).

Meybet Tarti is FMEA coordinator and team leader for advanced quality planning at Polytec Plastics Germany in Lohne. After gaining her Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, she began her career 6 years ago in the Polytec Group as a cross-plant FMEA moderator. She has completed further appropriate training to qualify as a certified FMEA moderator (DGQ) and FMEA manager (VDMA). Her other fields of activity and interests include APQP and 8D/problem-solving methods.

Full professor in the Department of Quality Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg. Dr. Woll has been a professor of quality management since 1997. He addresses the topic of quality primarily from the perspective of an engineer, stressing the content and dedication to quality. Practice-oriented studies based on a variety of projects with regional companies play a major role for him in his teaching. His research focuses on quality engineering.

Academic associate in the Department of Quality Management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg. Mr. Branke has been employed as an academic associate in the Department of Management since 2016. His teaching employs digital concepts to support teaching and learning in order to give students a better understanding of quality management methods. Theory of constraints and risk prevention are at the focus of his research.

Christa Düsing is an FMEA Coordinator and certified FMEA Moderator (DGQ) at XCMG European Research Center GmbH in Krefeld, Germany. She is responsible for FMEA analyses of mobile machinery such as mobile cranes, graders and loading cranes. She also provides the XCMG team with FMEA training worldwide within the Group. She has many years of experience as a development engineer for the optimization and further development of hydraulic systems and mobile machinery components. She also teaches design theory in the field of mechanical engineering at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln (University of Applied Sciences Cologne).

Ralf Wohlleben, born in 1968 at Stuttgart (Germany), is employed at the Porsche Engineering GmbH for almost 20 years. At Porsche, he has some 18 years of experience as specialist and moderator in the fields of FMEA and quality methods. He enjoys taking part in the creation of the FMEA forum, both in the front and in the background.