DR. JOACHIM LEDER

Management Consulting Training

Automotive Experience as basis for Consulting

ESP Consultation

Process Consultant (complete vehicle development processes and ASPICE-type processes)
Project Lead/Chief Engineer Consultant supporting several BEV projects with Start-ups and established OEMs (e.g. EV-shuttle, EV purpose-van,…).
Complete Product Development Process for different vehicle types (Passenger Cars, Shuttles, Purpose Vans, ...)
Establishing and tailoring of processes, procedures
Establishing complete set of VDP gate deliverables (for all swimlanes)
Designing and adjusting necessary workproducts as templates (e.g. generic BOM, VTS, DVP, ...)

BEV Start-up Consultation

Supporting big chinese BEV start-up to become "full-scale" OEM
Support to execute, monitor and assess development of six BEVs on three platforms.
Management of execution by four ESPs in alignment with local chinese development center (Hardware build in China).
Managing a global distribution of development tasks (Linkage between several regions)
Establish complete Product Development Process from project inception up to SOP including alignment of deliverables
Establishing, alignment and execution of gate management process
Establish and track mastertiming
Establish development quality process aligned with overall quality requirements
Support to institute a robust styling-engineering alignment process
Continuous process and organization development
Support processes and templates for sourcing plan, change management, releases, quality criteria

Automotive Development

Complete Product Development Process
Managing a global distribution of development tasks (Linkage between several regions)
Experience and competencies in intercultural social challenges
Complete Vehicle and Component development
Management of supporting Design houses
Hardware and software validation

Industrialisation

Planning, specification, ordering, and installation of production equipment
Planning of production processes
Linking between Product Development and Production Planning
Hardware and Software Development, implementation and 24/7 usage for EOL
Supplier management
Internal logistics planning
Cyber Security concepts

Competent Assessor Automotive SPICE® and
Certified Automotive SPICE® Assessor for Cyber Security

We support your mandatory ASPICE®-assessment by providing full-scale ASPICE Assessments tailored for your needs. This increases the acceptance level of the results at your customer significantly. We consult and support the preparation of your organization to fulfill mandatory regulations R155 and R156.

ASPICE assessment

Meanwhile all major car manufacturers (OEMs) as well as start-ups require a thorough, fast and reliable development process to be executed by their suppliers. ASPICE assessment is currently a perfect means to demonstrate the achieved certification level. Thereby either the overall organization or individual parts of the organization/the project reveal the capabilities regarding the development process. Although this "ASPICE" concept is mainly used for Software-developing departments, it's generic concept can also be applied to other areas like Cyber Security, Functional Safety, Mechanical Development.

Based on consulting experience in several supplier companies, we offer our knowledge for

process planning/management of ASPICE and Mechanical SPICE
process planning for FuSi and/or CyberSec applications or projects
organizational needs
external participation in ASPICE assessments

Projectmanagement (Automotive)

A well-functioning and efficient project management is one of the major challenges in mid-size and large enterprises. Our team already achieved dozens of successful project completions in different areas of expertise. We therefore have a broad basis of project management tools available and can as well recommend as use them fast and competent. The capabilities and capacities of your company are always considered and we will jointly with your teams develop executable proposals for optimization. We can support you goal-oriented and efficiencly by use of our individual specialists at right point in time.

Project development
Project leadership "from cradle to grave"
Change management
Leading X-functional teams (Finance, Marketing, Styling, Advanced Developement, Design, Purchasing, Validation, Process planning, Industrialisation, Quality, Production plants, Sales, Aftersales, PR)
Management of suppliers (purchase parts and equipment) and engineering service partners
Planning, support and participation on Press events and Dealer events
Budget Management
Total cost approach
Qualityprocess

Projectmanagement (Software Development)

In a huge number of technological fields Software and the required development process is nowadays key for a well-functioning product. Although there are many supporting tools for development and project management commercially available, their smart and efficient usage requires experience and common-sense approach in almost all phases from project start until final delivery to the customer.

We offer our experience in

project initialisation
project planning
project execution including system and software requirements
reporting and review execution
test linkage
productionizing

"Automotive Circle" Board Member, Consultant and Conference Moderation

Since 2015 our participation in the Board of Advisors for "Automotive Circle Assembly" contributed to a tremendous increase of public and industry interest in these conferences. The choice of topics and locations as well as the great networking possiblities have led to an almost doubling of participants.

Consultation activities significantly support the success of "Automotive Circle Assembly" by initiation and negotiation of upcoming "Insight"-locations. Additionally intense and close networking contacts are the basis for presentations by many divers fields of technology.

Leadership

Live and experience constructive leadership
Integration and involvement in a global leadership team
Development and implementation of re-organisations

Design for Six Sigma

Black belt
OpEx (Operational Excellence)

Competent Assessor Automotive SPICE® and

Certified Automotive SPICE® Assessor for Cyber Security