Dr. Henning O. Bruns - Managing Director
(Business Turnaround / Lean Production/ Operational Excellence)
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE​
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Automotive Manufacturing
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Truck Manufacturing
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Drivetrain Machining & Assembly
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Product Launch Management
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Operational Excellence
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Business Performance & Plant Turnaround
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Toyota Production System / Shop Floor Management / KPI Control
KEY PROJECTS
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Launch of 8 Vehicles & Components / >$700M Plant Invest / >$500M Product Project Invest
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Created complementing US-German MgmtCulture
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Repositioning Program to $400M EBIT Swing Turnaround within 3 years
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3 Plant Turnarounds within1 year(+30% Quality / +25% Labor Efficiency / sign. improved worker morale)
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P&L control via Hoshin-Kanritarget setting process
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Received 5 Corporate Daimler Awards (Best Quality, best Lean Culture, best Value Add Improvement, best Rate of Overall Improvement, best Launch)
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Plant Modernization to global Daimler Standard
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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1995 - Greenfield Mercedes-Benz Plant, Alabama, Process Engineering Trim Lines / Development of MB Production System
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1997 - Mercedes-Benz do Brazil, Industrialization of 2 Truck Product Lines in South America
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2000 - Global Head of 2 Truck Product Lines for Europe, Brazil, Turkey
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2006 - GM of Engine Operations MB Mannheim (2,700 FTE / 160,000 engines p. y.)
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2007 - GM Detroit Diesel Corporation, Detroit (2,500 FTE, 100,000 engines & 80,000 axles p. y. /Launch of Global Engine Platform)
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2012 - Head of Global Strategy and Product Planning for Daimler Trucks & Buses
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2015 - GM Freightliner Truck Plant, Charlotte, (2,500 FTE, 30,000 HD Trucks p. y.)
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2018 - ConMoto Consulting Inc., Senior Partner Charlotte, NC (Supplier Turnaround / Operational Excellence / Production System Implementation)
EDUCATION
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1992-1993 Texas Tech University, Master of Science Industrial Engineering
2000 University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Since 1997 various Lean Manufacturing / Kaizen Trainings / Japan Lean Study Trips
Since 1992 visited > 100 Automotive OEM and Suppliers Plants in Europe / Americas / Asia
MISCELLANEOUS
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German (native)
English (fluent)
Portuguese (fluent)
Spanish (basic knowledge)