DR. JOACHIM LEDER 
Management     Consulting     Training

Automotive Experience as basis for Consulting and Training


Engineering Service Provider 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)

 

Certified Scrum Master

To execute a complete development process - no matter what area of expertise – it is up-to-date to consider the inclusion of agile methods. The central role of the SCRUM Master (Scrum.org) who steers the execution and implementation of a project, can be provided by our team.