Company:
Powerblades GmbH

Company type:
Subsidiary of a corporation

Industry:
Wind industry

Size:
Turnover: €500 million

Number of Employees:
120

Role:
Interim Quality Manager

Task:
Management of quality assurance and quality management

Period:
02.2013 – 07.2013

Budget responsibility:
€6 million

Employee responsibility:
14 employees

• QA was not accepted in production.
• Rotor blades were only inspected after the end of production. Errors had already occurred.
• Extensive rework per rotor blade
• Inadequately organized production

• Conceptual design and introduction of production-accompanying quality assurance
• Implementation of confidence-building measures for QA in production
• Development of specific improvement measures to achieve specified cost, productivity and quality targets
• Optimization of performance and contractual relationships with customers, suppliers and logistics partners
• Optimization of the manufacturing process to reduce rework
• Implementation of workshops and training sessions with production management, foremen and group leaders to prepare for the roll-out of the new approaches

• Sustainable implementation of production-accompanying quality assurance and necessary testing processes with clearly defined quality gates as well as witness and hold points
• Successful implementation of the organizational and procedural restructuring based on a selected pilot project in the ongoing production process
• High acceptance of QA in production
• Improvement of communication structures between QM/QA and production
• Significant reduction of rework by 700%