The FMEA Forum Osnabrück will demonstrate a wide range of solutions.
Experience the forum as a place for:
- Innovative FMEA solutions
- Inspiring interactivity
- Unique networking
The objective is to share experience ssuccess methods in risk management and to introduce best-practice solutions, developments, trends, and future requirements for FMEA.
Here you can find more videos about the Osnabrück FMEA Forum.
The participation fee is 0,00€ (net)
04.03.2026 / 05.03.2026
- 08:00
- Coffee reception with breakfast snacks
- 08:00
- Sending livestream access details
- 09:00
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Mastering complexity – clarity through FMEA and AI
Winfried Dietz, Dietz Consultants GmbH
- 09:30
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Interface between warranty and FMEA – identifying risks, avoiding claims
Prof. Andreas Braasch, IQZ - Institut für Qualitäts- und Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement GmbH
- 10:15
- Coffee break
- 10:45
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Excel FMEA in the age of AI and the cloud – relic or bridge?
Christian Frisch, Audimus Dynamics GmbH
- 11:30
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Mastering complexity in code – FMEA as the key to software scope.
Rene Sickinger
- 12:15
- Lunch buffet
- 13:45
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FMEA meets FTA – Two methods for clarity in complex systems
Albrecht Kern, KernKompete.nz GmbH
- 14:30
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Experience best practices for FMEA team meetings live in an entertaining way
- 15:15
- Coffee break
- 15:45
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Handling Special Characteristics in the product development process
Oliver Mannuß, Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung
- 16:30
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From thought models to data models – how a digital data pool is revolutionizing the quality of methodological work
Dr. Thiemo Zambanini, PeakAvenue GmbH
- 17:30
- End of the first day of the event
- Networking over dinner Venue: Rampendahl brewery
- 08:00
- Coffee reception with breakfast snacks
- 09:00
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Workflow-integrated generative AI for FMEA – How to achieve scalable quality and efficiency improvements
Dr. Patrick Reissner, Datapetal GmbH
- 09:45
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Risks in the application of AI for FMEA
Dr. Michael Gellner
- 10:30
- Coffee break
- 11:00
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FMEA Slam
- 11:45
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Automated Structural FMEA Models through Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE): How E/E Systems Benefit from Model-Based Functional and Structural Interconnections
Jörg Hermes, Hermes Sicherheits- & Qualitätsmanagement Jan Oberländer, Carneios GmbH
- 12:30
- Lunch buffet
- 14:00
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The psychological magic of FMEA
Dirk Strubberg, successfactory consulting group
- 14:45
- Closing lecture – Farewell
- 15:00
- End of the event
Speakers of the presentationsHere you can see the speakers who will give the presentations at the event.
Dr. Michael Gellner
- Company
- Information
- Dr. Michael Gellner pursues the goal of optimally bringing people and systems together in various roles. As a computer scientist and communication scientist, he has been moving confidently in the interface areas of software quality, functional safety/SOTIF, cybersecurity and requirements management for over 20 years. As an FMEA moderator, risk and quality manager, he assists the makers worldwide - but as an auditor, expert and consultant to customers, he also knows their views and interests.
Rene Sickinger
- Company
- Information
- Rene Sickinger is an internal FMEA moderator at Mercedes-Benz Group AG and is responsible for FMEA as FMEA manager and moderator for HV charging systems. In this role, he supports interdisciplinary development teams in the systematic identification, evaluation, and control of technical risks throughout the product development process.
Thanks to his many years of experience as an FMEA method developer, Rene Sickinger has a deep methodological understanding of FMEA and extensive practical experience in the further development and standardization of FMEA approaches. His focus is on the high-quality application of the method, the structured facilitation of complex systems, and the sustainable anchoring of FMEA as an effective risk management tool within the company.
With his combination of methodological expertise, technical system knowledge, and moderation skills, he makes a significant contribution to ensuring the product quality, safety, and robustness of modern high-voltage systems.
Christian Frisch
- Company
- Audimus Dynamics GmbH
Jan Oberländer
- Company
- Carneios GmbH
- Information
- Jan Oberländer is a software development engineer at Carneios GmbH, a development service provider for hardware-related software systems and general software applications.
His focus is on the systematic development of complex technical systems, particularly at the interface between software development, system requirements, and system architecture.
He is currently supporting a renowned supplier to the automotive industry in the further development of a rechargeable energy storage system (REESS) for heavy-duty applications. There, he is responsible for contributing to the specification of system requirements and the design of the system architecture, taking functional safety into account, and plays a key role in defining and establishing suitable development processes.
Dr. Patrick Reissner
- Company
- Datapetal GmbH
- Information
- Patrick Reissner is co-founder and CEO of Datapetal, a start-up that integrates generative AI into the failure analysis creation process. With a PhD in physics from ETH Zurich, he combines many years of experience in the development of sensor systems with global innovation management at leading automation companies. With this dual perspective of technical expertise and management, he is shaping the future of FMEA with less effort, higher quality, and better use of corporate knowledge. To this end, Datapetal develops scalable, workflow-integrated AI solutions that enable organizations to mitigate risks more quickly and effectively. With Datapetal, he is shaping a future in which AI-supported FMEA not only reduces risks, but also accelerates decision-making processes and makes organizations more resilient.
Winfried Dietz
- Company
- Dietz Consultants GmbH
- Information
- Winfried Dietz is the founder and managing partner of DIETZ Consultants GmbH, an international consulting company with subsidiaries in China and India. Under his leadership, the company group has developed into a leading provider in the field of quality and risk management. DIETZ Consultants supports leading OEMs and Tier-1s in the automotive industry worldwide as well as clients in the aerospace, defense, engineering and manufacturing technology sectors. DIETZ Consultants' FMEA forums are important events in the annual cycle for a global community of experts to exchange expertise and further develop methods.
Oliver Mannuß
- Company
- Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung
- Information
- Oliver Mannuß heads the Sustainable Product and Process Development research team in the Sustainable Value Creation Systems research area at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA).
A central component of the research team's scientific work is the application of FMEA and its integration into the product development process, as well as its application to different types of companies. Another focus is the adaptation of FMEA to different target requirements, e.g., using KV-FMEA to predict the availability of machines and systems in production systems, or using eFPM to estimate quality costs and the impact on the CO2 footprint in process development.
In addition, as CE coordinator, he oversees the safety of machines and systems that are placed on the market as part of research and industrial projects, including risk assessments in accordance with EN 12000.
Jörg Hermes
- Company
- Hermes Sicherheits- & Qualitätsmanagement
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- Jörg Hermes is the founder of Hermes Safety & Quality Management and the Hermes Functional Safety Academy, an internationally active freelance engineering firm specializing in functional safety.
He supports automotive, industrial, and defense companies in the development, evaluation, and validation of safety-related systems—from conception and pre-assessments to targeted preparation for functional safety assessments.
He places particular emphasis on practical, auditable methods and the sustainable qualification of organizations and development projects.
As the organizer and moderator of the FS Barcamp, Jörg Hermes has established a fixed annual event with the Hermes Functional Safety Academy for professional exchange and methodological development within the functional safety community.
Prof. Andreas Braasch
- Company
- IQZ - Institut für Qualitäts- und Zuverlässigkeitsmanagement GmbH
- Information
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Braasch is managing partner at the Institute for Quality and Reliability Management. There, he is primarily concerned with liability issues of technical systems as well as the safety and reliability of autonomous systems. He is on the road worldwide as an expert witness in product liability cases and helps automotive suppliers in particular to establish "equality of arms" with the supposedly overpowering OEMs. Since 2020, Andreas Braasch has also been a professor of safety and reliability management at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (HRW) and is pleased to be able to pass on his knowledge to future engineers.
Albrecht Kern
- Company
- KernKompete.nz GmbH
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- Dipl.-Ing. Albrecht Kern is a Functional Safety expert and DGQ-certified FMEA moderator (P/FMOD//1805-370). He studied electrical engineering and information technology at the University of Stuttgart.Albrecht Kern has extensive knowledge in the application and communication of FMEA methodology. As a software-independent moderator, he uses various software solutions such as Apis IQ-FMEA or Babtec and is also happy to impart this knowledge in method or software user training courses. Under the slogan ‘FMEA 2040’, he wants to make the method fit for the future.He also specialises in Functional Safety, e.g. in accordance with ISO 26262, and advises companies on setting up and implementing the safety lifecycle and creating individual work packages.
Dr. Thiemo Zambanini
- Company
- PeakAvenue GmbH
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- Thiemo Zambanini is the managing director of PeakAvenue GmbH, an international software manufacturer specializing in risk/quality management and engineering. As a merger of PLATO (FMEA), Apis (FMEA), iqs (CAQ), isograph (FTA, Reliability, Availability), and Osseno (requirements management), PeakAvenue GmbH brings together the market leaders in their respective fields to develop a new type of eQMS (enhanced Quality Management System), the PeakAvenue platform. As an integrated, open, state-of-the-art SaaS platform, it combines the depth of well-known specialist tools with the breadth of an eQMS system. All this along the entire product lifecycle, the digital thread, to take our customers' quality to a new level. True to our motto: We make quality champions.
Dirk Strubberg
- Company
- successfactory consulting group
About our hotel recommendationsFor our participants, a limited contingent of rooms is available at the indicated hotels at a preferential price. Please make the reservation yourself directly at the hotel in good time, referring to the event.
Hotel Remarque
- Address:
- Natruper-Tor-Wall 1, 49076 Osnabrück
- Phone:
- +49 541 6096-0
- Email:
- Reservation@hotel-remarque.de
- Web:
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