Dr. Cennet Dogan

• Increase efficiency and profitability by developing operational excellence and turnaround strategies
• Implement Lean Six Sigma organizational structure
• Leading and coaching local management to change the mindset in the organization
• Leading various cross-functional high-level projects to increase product quality and reduce production costs
• Identify, support and train talented and high performing employees to develop a strong management team

Main focus:

• Reduction of manufacturing costs
• Reduction of internal and external quality costs & complaints
• Increase of capacity
• Reduction of disposal and waste costs
• Reduction of maintenance costs
• Improving the product development process (program & launch management)
• Optimization of processes along the value chain
• Improvement of business processes (Lean Management)

• Increase efficiency and profitability by developing operational excellence and turnaround strategies
• Implement Lean Six Sigma organizational structure
• Leading and coaching local management to change the mindset in the organization
• Leading various cross-functional high-level projects to increase product quality and reduce production costs
• Identify, support and train talented and high performing employees to develop a strong management team

Main focus:

• Reduction of manufacturing costs
• Reduction of internal and external quality costs & complaints
• Increase of capacity
• Reduction of disposal and waste costs
• Reduction of maintenance costs
• Improving the product development process (program & launch management)
• Optimization of processes along the value chain
• Improvement of business processes (Lean Management)

• Development and maintenance of the quality management system according to ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 and customer specific requirements

• Transfer of the QM system to 6 international locations (USA, Germany, Poland, Spain, China)

• Ensuring certification and auditing of the locations

• Developing standard processes for the business processes

• Quality management reviews for all sites and report of critical metrics to management

• Optimization of processes along the value chain
• Continuous process improvement of production, logistics, material planning, production planning, quality, maintenance, shipping, process engineering, controlling
• ensuring product availability (time, quantity, quality)

• Development of an innovative material for the catalytic reduction of oxygen in fuel cells for application in the automotive industry
• Design of experiment, high throughput chemistry, electrochemistry, catalysis
• Material and process development in the field of chemistry
• Catalyst testing and coating, performance of measurements and evaluation of results

Prof. Dr. W. F. Maier, Chair of Technical Chemistry, Saarland University, in cooperation with Umicore AG & Co. KG

Topics:

Technical chemistry, process engineering, catalysis, electrochemistry / fuel cells

My PhD topic includes the independent development and adaptation of an automated, electro-optical high-throughput measurement method for the determination of the catalytic activity of newly synthesized compounds. The focus of the work is on the development and optimization of the synthesized catalysts as well as their evaluation and characterization with common analytical methods.