Summary
Dirk Joswig is an operational excellence leader and manufacturing engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing high‑volume production organizations across Europe, the USA, India and China. He has led turnarounds and scale‑ups of plants with up to 400 employees and €140M turnover, driving OEE improvements to as high as 90% through Lean, Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 practices. His strengths span supply chain and production planning, tooling and automation selection, and deployment of digital systems (CAD/CAM, PLM, SPC) to link and stabilize lines running 24/7. A PhD in Production Technology and a background in both academia and industry give him a rare mix of rigorous process capability expertise and practical plant leadership. As founder of his own consultancy, he combines interim management with change programs that deliver measurable financial and quality results. He is known for establishing continuous improvement cultures and for translating complex audit and regulatory requirements into robust, auditable operations.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Manchester
Doktor (Ph.D.), Production Technology, Doktor (Ph.D.), Production Technology at Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg