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---- About ZNT-RICHTER --------- Mr.Mayer
Zentral fuer New Technology. software company established for the last 30 yrs or so..
• Into Manufacturing
• ERP Intergration ( SAP netweavear)
• Travel
Services into –
• Factory Automation
• SAP services
• Software Development
• Training
Also partners with MES vendors like – Camstar, Miracom, CmNavigo,.
Znt- Industries – Automotive, Medical devices, solar, semiconductor,
znt self products - zac (znt automation components, zXitap - for equipment integration , zspc )
znt works with 3 korean vendors - Miracom, Bistel and CSPI (scheduling, dispatching and forecasting.. )
---------------Motivation ------------ From career point of view-----
- With what i have understood after talking with Mr.Mayer in our 2-3 conversations , the particular role is quite exciting for me, also the fact that what i do with samsung and my past companies ie my experience is very similar to what you are looking for .. and also what I am looking for..
- I am already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and asisan region. At this point of time i want to leverage that experience and bring it back to Germany. Overall i have work experience of working in Germany ie with European customers, Now a lot with Asian customers.. So I have good exposure of working in different work cultures and environments.

- Europe has big MES market also most companies want to expand to Asia. So I can bring a lot to the table for with my work experience of working in different cultures and work environment and especially in the MES sector for manufacturing.

- Having worked in automotive sector before, I wish to work again ina German automotive sector and hence conti. Also I have work exp of workig in large multicultural companies like Samsung, Siemens, SK etc.

- Having studied and worked in Germany before, I feel very comfortable settling back in German work environment. I can also speak the language so it makes life a lot easier.

- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe - Also that my wife can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and culture..


-------------Key Role in MES in Industrial automation --- Mr. Mayer -------------
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- I have over 10.5 years of work experience with almost 80% of experience in the Manufacturing Industry and Industrial automation. In different sectors like SOLARwith Solarworld AG, AUTOMOTIVE, ELECTRONICS, Oil and Energy . But mainly in DISCRETE manufacturing . Majority exp in MES but also at times in Equipment integration. also intergrating MES with business layer

- Currently I work as Sr. MES consultant / MES project manager and System Integrator with Samsung... I handle a
team of 15 people ( its a group of multicultural people , distributed in diff geographic locations.., so i need to collaborate with them at all times... )

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- I have a MESA certification for MES/MOM methodologies – So I consult the production sites and line managers about the “BEST PRACTICES for MES” according to MESA and ISA-95 standards - eg: Master Data management best practices - Canonical data management

- My roles is , I am the project manager and Sr. Consultant for our MES system and any new requirements that come are implement by Software Dev Team. and then I am responsible for commissioning our MES throughout the global sites across the world. creating a project plan , project reporting to the higher management particularly at VP , EVP level, developing the project and then marshaling and handling the resource in my team, distributing the work
Any change request that happen or conflicts that happen , resolving those conflicts and reporting them. – Which involved travelling to several customers sites across

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- I typically represent the customers or lets say I am SPOC for them , I have to think from the customers perspective and see how it benefits them and i understand their needs, H- Consulting customers particularly on MES project, Integrating MES with Business Layer, CRM, Logistics, SCM and PLM typically SAP integration, EAI (Enterprise application intergratoin using message bus,concepts of soa , eg: tibco), BPM and BRM. CIM and EES (equipment engineering system)applications. So how a particular MES solution can fit their IT landscape, the risks involved, how to mitigate those risks.

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- One my important roles is to expand the samsung portfolio for MES, by looking at new potential industries like Steel and Rolling Mills, Solar industry and leverage the MES expertise of Samsung and Miracom products. Typically in Vertical Integration and Production Optimization ( eg : SPC, APC, Predictive maintenance etc..)
Bring out new initiatives and develop concepts to use new technology for MES , create business proposals and give them to clients for the MES solutions (Eg: Cloud based MES , Smart Manufacturing, Virtualization , Big data, real time analytics, CEP , In memory data gird, Business process, ESB, etc .. ), implement Master Data management plan for our global sites.

- Giving Demo, hold workshops, brainstorming sessions, One on One interviews with stakeholders and clients /Introduction of MES to different production sites – which involved Organizing and structuring the teams, training, creating user manuals, administration guides etc.

- Interface or the SPOC between the customers and the Software Engineering teams and Partners from Germany,China, Japan, US etc.. (eg Equipment manufacturers like Meyer burger group - pasan flasher. I also resolve their problems and conflicts, by understanding what they want to then routing these problems to the right department

- Together with clients and partners Analyze business process and then consult improvement in manufacturing process to improve the efficiency at the shop floor.

- Architecture Consulting, Requirement elicitation from the our global and local sites and implementing those changes according to the priority

- Vertical integration of MES with ERP(SAP R3), SCM, CRM and PLM which follows strict compliance and open standards eg: B2MML using XML etc.. Equipment integration with - File based equipment interfaces and protocol based equipment interfaces (OPC, XML, Modbus, profibus... )

- Proving 2nd and 3rd level support to our customers and different sites. Resolving their issues and problems, or any new change requests that happen.

- Verifying the MES solution in-house (different types of testing) and then final deployment and commissioning of software.

- Business process optimization and standardization ,- Standardization of process across different production plants , Samsung has 28 sites running legacy systems, so the challenge is to transition from legacy system to new generic MES (HQ)which controls all the production sites

- Since I also have a technical background I am also involved in - Training the IT team / , releasing documents to Development teams, training manuals, coaching the Maintenance managers in the production line.

- Collaborating with multi-cultural teams across geographic locations, different Subject Matter Experts of different for administrator and production line engineers ,departments like Production team , planning teams, supply chain team, logistics and packaging team, Sales team getting their requirements and prioritizing them.

- Creating one harmonized multi-site, multi-country MES template that uses a consistent approach to MES that can be used across plants by using Business Process Management and Business Rules Engine.

- Creating a generic MES template to Integrate the MES across different sites by defining certain best practices for the process and taking them from one project to another. Mainly focusing on re-usability of modules (Trying to move MES to cloud based MES, using concepts of big-data for MES, real time analytic etc.. )

-Analysis of requests and demands according P&I process . Business requirements specification and translation business requirements into application specifications

- Created Generic/modular MES covering Quality Management, Labor management , Process Management , Product Tracking and Tracing , Data acquisition , Resource Management/Planning (recipes) ,Quality Management Performance analysis, Work In progress (WIP) , Material management Handing Production management , Production planning

- EAI tools - Miracom Highway 101, Tibco Rendezvous, Webspere, worked with several db - oracle, MS SQL, Open source (Mysql, postgresql.. ) ,
Process control - Modbus, profibus, horizontal communication, OPC, PLC

--------------- WORK WITH MES VENDORS --------

- I have worked with several MES vendors like - Rockwell, Siemens , GE, CamLine... , Miracom MESplus, .Created of the MES from the scratch
Cameron - Self developed MES and Rockwell PMX,
Siemens-Fujitsu - CamLine and Siemens Simatic IT - TIBCO Rendevouz
Solarworld - Self developed product. based on AIMS system (Which was also acquired by Samsung...)
Solarworld in one of their plant uses - Camstar
Miracom - MES plus in Samsung, Highway 101

------------- Standardization benefits of MES ----------

lowers cost of maintaning the IT systems, Improving quality control , Improving better visibility to shop floor activities(Real-time) , faster product development and delivery to market , improving OEE , Better collaboration , standarization of reporting, reduces Total cost of owernship (TCO) by connecting users, content and enterprise applications
eg:reduce cycle time and recipet of good in SCM

-------------- Salary Validation -------------- base salary of over 70K
Have over 10 year of experience , majority in MES and Industrial Automation and Process Consulting, in different IT sectors like Automotives, Oil and Energy as Lead MES consultant, Team Leader- Handled teams and projects with over 15 people geographically located.
Master Degree
I can speak 4 languages (English, German, Hindi and Punjabi and Bit of korean )
Bring a lot to the table with MES consluting, New initiatives , Worked with new bleeding edge technologies like Big data, Virtualization , Real Time analytics

--------Integration mechanism --------
- Interface centeric - using EAI tools
use SOA and ESB together or Manufacturing service bus with MDM
- Data centric approach - using ETL model
- Model centric - Using Business Process Management using Business Rules Modelling
SPC - statistical Process control - infrastructure tool for Production control quality in
Semiconductor industry.
SPC allows you to predict tool trends like - when the machine is due for maintanence , tools wear

------------------QUESTIONS for ZNT-RICHTER -----------------
- whats the business model whose products you promote - camstar, bistel,miracom, cmnavigo etc... and in which market ?
- Now that miracom is bought over by Samsung, how do you partner with miracom ?
- What the structure of team and company, who will be utilized ?
- Does znt-richter has some training programs for different MES vendors
- How does Znt collaborate with its partners in dilevering MES projects ?
- Whats the business model for ZNT ?
- What level of support is provided by ZNT 1st, 2nd or 3rd ?
----------------------------------------JOB DESCRIPTION -----------------------
You work for an IT consulting company and advise customers in the electronics, semiconductor, solar, medical and manufacturing industries, with the introduction of MES solutions (Manufacturing Execution System)
They are the "face to the customer", that is technical and commercial contacts
They act as an interface between internal software development and customer
Together with the client to analyze the business and manufacturing processes and develop a concept for the implementation of an MES solution
The MES system is then implemented technically by your colleagues from the software development
Project management in the conceptual phase
Travel activities and presentations for customers in German and English
Further development of the company's "best practices" for MES


A degree / training or equivalent practical experience
Several years of professional experience as a consultant or project manager in MES, ERP, PLM or similar projects
Industry experience in the manufacturing industry
IT background and knowledge in the Manufacturing / Production / Manufacturing
Programming knowledge is not required
Willingness to travel nationally and internationally (Asia, USA)
High service orientation
Cooperation in intercultural teams
Quick learner, in particular an understanding of customer needs and possible solutions