Markus Knorr

The Polar Group is a family-owned company with more than 400 employees worldwide with its headquarters in Hofheim Hesse. Polar is well-known for designing and manufacturing innovative paper processing solutions in the postpress and packaging industry. In my role as General Manager, I had full P&L responsibility for the production plant in Shanghai with 8 direct reports and a total number of 40 employees. Key responsibilities: - Define and implement the company’s middle and long-term strategy and goals - Drive domestic and export sales in close cooperation with our local partner - Oversee the company’s quality standards and ensure a high-quality level - ... Achievements: - Implemented 5S, EHS and lean processes and structures - Significant reduction of overtime along with increased productivity - Lowered purchasing cost while improving supplier quality - ... Please feel free to contact me for more information.

With over 30 companies across the world and factories in Europe and Asia, Reflex Winkelmann Ltd. is the main pillar of the Winkelmann Building+Industry business division. The company is a leading manufacturer of Water treatment and degassing systems as well as pressurization vessels. As Operations Director I was in charge of all operational functions for the production plant in Shanghai with a total of 32 employees. Key responsibilities: - Responsible for manufacturing, engineering, quality, purchasing and logistic matters - Define the operational budget and oversee its fulfillment - Drive continuous operational improvements on the basis of the Winkelmann Production System (WPS) - ... Achievements: - Significant productivity increase by designing and implementing a one-piece flow assembly line - Successfully implemented lean methods (5S, CIP) and an EHS environment based on WPS - Significant reduction of customer complaints by improving our quality control system - ... Please feel free to contact me for more information.

Dunktermotoren Ltd. is incorporated into the Precision Motion Control (PMC) group of AMETEK Inc., an S&P500 enterprise with an annual global revenue of more than USD 4 billion. With its headquarters in Germany, Dunkermotoren develops and manufactures DC motors, gearboxes as well as brakes and encoders as a complete drive solution. In addition to my tasks as Application Engineer, I took over the following responsibilities in my role as Project Manager: - Post-merger-integration project: coordinate the team of Dunkermotoren Germany and AMETEK PMC branches in China and USA to migrate a brushless DC motor and its controller (set up and qualify a production line as well as develop the supply chain) manufactured by a third party - Product-shift project: Localize a brushless DC motor and its corresponding controller designed in Germany (set up and qualify a production line as well as develop the supply chain)

Key responsibilities: - Technical pre- and aftersales support of our local and German sales staff for the most important global key accounts - Development support of new drive- and software solutions - Field failure analysis and error finding including 8D reporting - Interface to the german headquarter in all kind of aspects - Supervision of student projects

The Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH – Technical University of Applied Sciences) is located in the Upper Palatinate, an administrative district of the federal state of Bavaria. With approximately 3,500 students and an academic staff of 83, the University constantly secures top places in university rankings. In my position as CAX-Engineer I took over the following tasks: - FE-structure analysis projects with MSC Marc Mentat for companies like Scherdel and Gerresheimer - Multibody-Simulation project with MSC Adams for HAMM (Wirtgen Group) - CAD lectures for students (2D & 3D part design, assembly design, kinematics)

BHS Corrugated Machinery is the Lifecycle Company for the corrugated industry, employing 2,500 worldwide and present in more than 20 countries. The company is headquartered in Weiherhammer, Bavaria. BHS Corrugated is consistently strong across the entire product and service range: from development and production to installation and maintenance, to a variety of innovative service solutions in the areas of corrugating rolls, individual machines, complete corrugators and soon to come inline digital print. Thesis: Design and implement a workflow-management-system

Analysis of physical measures (force and torque) of corrugator machines at customer site

EasTec GmbH was founded in 1987 in Weiden, Bavaria. The company is specialized in the design and assembly of electrotechnical systems and software solutions for the automation and robotic industry. - Assembly of electrical control cabinets - Electrical and mechanical commissioning at customer site - Project management of automation and robotic projects - Setup of machines within Germany and abroad