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Current projects (extract)

Oct 2011: MAGNA
Life Cycle Engineers wins a consulting contract for business process improvement in the Vilafranca (Spain) factory of Magna, a world leading automotive supplier.

Sep 2011: LEONHARD LANG
Leonhard Lang, an Austrian technology leader in electrode systems and accessories for ECG, electrosurgery, defibrillation, and stimulation selects Life Cycle Engineers for a corporate PLM project.

July 2011: SIEMENS ENERGY
Siemens AG selects Life Cycle Engineers for standardizing and integrating document management within all locations of Siemens Transformers.

June 2011: MBB PALFINGER
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a contract for improving project management at MBB Palfinger, a leading manufacturer of tail lifts and access systems for vehicles.

May 2011: YAZAKI EUROPE
Yazaki Europe, a world leading manufacturer of Electrical Distribution Systems for vehicles, selects Life Cycle Engineers for improving process and data flow in development and production of automotive wiring harness solutions.

April 2011: SIEMENS ENERGY
Siemens awards Life Cycle Engineers a follow-up contract for preparation and realization of the PLM-Rollout at their Gouangzhou plant (China), as part of the global PLM initiative.

Oct 2010: MANZ AUTOMATION AG
MANZ AUTOMATION AG, a leading provider of automation solutions for Solar and Hightech Industry, awards Life Cycle Engineers a consulting contract for know-how transfer in the field of engineering method application.

Oct 2010: SIEMENS ENERGY
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a follow-up consulting contract for PLM process and system implementation including change management, process and system trainings at another site in Nürnberg.

Oct 2010: JETTER AG
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a consulting contract at JETTER AG, a leading service provider in the field of industrial automation.

Sep 2010: ROFIN SINAR
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a consulting contract for for extending the support in engineering optimization at ROFIN SINAR, a worldwide technology leader in laser material processing.

Sep 2010: SIEMENS ENERGY
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a follow-up consulting contract for PLM process and system implementation including change management, process and system trainings at the site Dresden.

August 2010: RICHARD WOLF GMBH
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a follow-up consulting contract for the implementation of the project management process including interfaces to the portfolio management and the PEP/Gate Process at RICHARD WOLF GMBH, a leading manufacturer of high quality products for the endoscopic diagnosis and therapy in the human and veterinary medicine.

Aug 2010: WORLD OF MEDICINE AG
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a consulting contract for the optimization of the design control process at WORLD OF MEDICINE AG, the global market leader for devices in the field of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS®).

July 2010: RICHARD WOLF GMBH
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a follow-up consulting contract for the optimization of the project management in the context of the program „Engineering Excellence“ at RICHARD WOLF GMBH, a leading manufacturer of high quality products for the endoscopic diagnosis and therapy in the human and veterinary medicine.

June 2010: SIEMENS BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a consulting contract at SIEMENS BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, a leader in the area of facility security, facility automation and efficient facility operation.

May 2010: ROFIN SINAR
ROFIN SINAR, a worldwide technology leader in laser material processing, awards Life Cycle Engineers a follow-up contract for extending the support in engineering optimization.

May 2010: ETO MAGNETIC
ETO MAGNETIC, a leading provider for electro-magnetic sensors and actuators, awards Life Cycle Engineers a consulting contract for supporting a major project.

April 2010: GKN AEROSPACE
GKN AEROSPACE, a leading manufacturer of high-tech composite parts for the aerospace industry, awards Life Cycle Engineers as partner for a reorganization project implementing value stream management for manufacturing processes.

April 2010: IWK VERPACKUNGSTECHNIK
IWK VERPACKUNGSTECHNIK, a worlwide leader for high-end packaging machines and part of the OYSTAR GROUP, awards Life Cycle Engineers as partner for a strategic innovation and development project.

March 2010: EMHART TEKNOLOGIES
EMHART TEKNOLOGIES, a leading provider of assembly solutions for the automotive industry, awards Life Cycle Engineers with the enhancement of their R&M (Reliability & Maintainability) competence in the context of a major order for an automotive OEM.

March 2010: SIEMENS ENERGY
SIEMENS ENERGY awards Life Cycle Engineers with the roll-out of the new designed processes and systems for a more efficient engineering and customer order processing at their Nürnberg-based operations. Part of the contract is the complete change management, including training and support of the employees.

Feb 2010: GERMANISCHER LLOYD AG
Life Cycle Engineers is awarded a consulting contract at Germanischer Lloyd AG, a world-wide leading company for assurance, consulting and classification for the maritime and energy industries.

Jan 2010: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN
ERBE Elektromedizin, a leading provider of medical solutions and customer of Life Cycle Engineers for many years, awards a follow-up contract for extending the PLM support in the product development process.

Further projects

Dr. Marco Lanza, Product Manager, IWK Verpackungstechnik GmbH:

“Being the market and technology leader in the area of high-end packaging machines we have the target to improve our competitive position in the medium range of performance as well. A new generation of machines with innovative unique selling points and significantly reduced manufacturing costs brings us considerably closer to this target. The cooperation with Life Cycle Engineers has given us the right impulses.”

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Bernd Berg – CEO, Bergrohr GmbH:

„Being a medium-sized enterprise in a global market, the key success factors for Bergrohr are flexibility and highest product quality. With the support of Life Cycle Engineers we could not only identify important potentials for improvements within our core processes Quotation and Customer Order Processing, but furthermore we were able to define ways and methods to tap these potentials. Thus we laid the foundation for profitable growth."

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Dr. Roland Geisel - Head of Process and Project Management, BMW AG:

We have now laid the foundation for for reaching a completely new quality level in project management with regard to standards and integration The support provided by Life Cycle Engineers played a decisive role not only in developing the solution but also in carrying out the integration work crucial to a project of this size.

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Bernd Germann - Head of Technical Information Systems, Metabowerke GmbH:

“With the support of Life Cycle Engineers, we were able to optimize our innovation process significantly and to accelerate market introduction of successful product innovations."

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Hans-Werner Koch - Head of Product Management and Research & Development, Kieback&Peter GmbH:

“The consultants of Life Cycle Engineers were able to identify themselves largely with our company and our products. This led to a fast acceptance of their methodical analysis and consultancy. Both product management and development got crucial impulses by the survey of the life cycle of our high complex products."

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Ulrich Hansmann – Vice President, Development Modules & Standards, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.:

“These results are laying a foundation that we are able to meet cost targets of future development projects. Moreover we can more exactly fulfill the different needs of our customers and therefore open up new markets in the middle-class segment. With the combination of consultancy and project management competence these projects have been exemplary successful."

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Johannes Rettenmaier - CEO, GÄRTNER Transporttechnik GmbH:

„With this project we could increase significantly our adherence to delivery dates, the quality of our products and our efficiency as well. Moreover the structuring and standardization of our components allows us the precise alignment of our transport and conveyor systems with the customer requirements. With the combination of a consultancy based on methods and the direct implementation in our customer projects, Life Cycle Engineers has achieved a high acceptance for the required structural changes. The ability of the consultants to comprehensively understand our specific product and customer situation, led to a high project efficiency and was the basis for our common success."

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Jochen Billerbeck – Director Product Lifecycle Management, Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH:

The safety of our products, our global development and production as well as the integration of our development partners require a high degree of know-how protection in product development. With the support of Life Cycle Engineers we could solve the natural goal conflict between absolute security and the needed project related transparency, we could structure our crucial know-how and assign it to different security scenarios.With the implementation of the scenarios and concepts we could reach a more effective and safe collaboration globally.

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Christian O. Erbe – CEO, ERBE Elektromedizin:

Christian O. Erbe – CEO, ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH, Tübingen: "Within one year ERBE PLM has become the core application of our enterprise. Starting from the first idea for a new product, through development and marketing to production and shipping: the system organizes and provides all product-related data and documents. The advice provided by Life Cycle Engineers regarding process design and PLM system architecture has taken us a decisive step forward in improving seamless handling, quality and traceability of our processes and data.“

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Harald Knetsch - Engineering Manager, Mechanic/Coldforming, EMHART TEKNOLOGIES TUCKER GmbH:

“Binding and traceable statements regarding Reliability & Maintainability and Life Cycle Costing of our production equipment are more and more demanded by our customers and influence the investment decisions. Conclusions for further developments of our products can be derived directly from that. Together with Life Cycle Engineers we were able to build up the required competence within our company."

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