Complexity Management 4.0 Strategy Day 2022 -

Digitalization is amplifying product and variant diversity. Customers want digital added value, new services and customized products. Industry 4.0 concepts, methods and technologies enable innovative manufacturers to satisfy this needs. But the complexity must be kept on a sensible cost level. Fast changing market conditions and regulations add to even more complexity.

To control and adjust the optimum level of complexity is decisive for profitability and competitiveness. It’s important to keep in mind that reduction of complexity isn’t always the desirable result, because certain levels of home-breed complexity can be positive by creating a specific competitive edge, like unique quality or product features.

Complexity Management enables us to honor all aspects of complexity and to avoid cost traps.

The Complexity Management 4.0 strategy day conveys to managers of the areas

Product Development
Engineering
Manufacturing
Process Management
Portfolio Management
IT/Data/BI
Product Management
Purchasing
Business Operations

With an intensive program of best practice lectures, use cases, workshops, scientific insights and networking, attendees learn about the latest methods, trends and best practices in complexity management.

Interactive Networking Format

Inspiring talks (Cutting-edge business cases, strategies, technology, best management practices, analysis, methods)
Workshops
Networking meetings
Online archive and community

Topics

Mastering the diversity of variants in the 4.0 age
Which strategy in complexity management? Standardize or react flexibly?
Methods to find complexity drivers
Determine the optimal level of complexity
Relationship between market and company complexity
Identify and avoid complexity cost traps
Agile development, agile organization, agile process framework
orchestration strategies
Market analytics as a key / new methods / big data / business analytics
Complexity management in product development and planning
Digital engineering in product development
Optimizing the product range and portfolio strategies
IoT and the market-driven development of networked products
Development of digital services and platforms
Modularity management and product architecture
Individualization and batch size 1
Data strategy
Product data, data integration, interoperability, standards
Platform strategies
Variant management tools
Optimizing process structure
Optimizing resource structure
Optimizing production network
Configuration management 4.0
Lean Six Sigma
Early BOM

Dr. Jens Paggel, Senior Transformation Lead, Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH

Stop Scaling Agility

Our products are becoming increasingly complex. We spend more and more effort for managing complexity and dependencies. It is time to stop, take a break, to re-think the situation, and to re-claim the time and effort spend for something more useful: value generation.
How? Let us learn from some innovative companies and follow the example of putting architecture and interfaces first. When we define interfaces first, we can eliminate complexity for a large part of our development organization. Make it complex for few and simple for many.
I will provide some simple rules and principles you might want to reflect upon.

Rainer Brehm, Head of Plastic Process Engineering, Geberit Produktions GmbH

Leading Generation Z in an environment of complexity

Beside all technical innovations to manage complexity there are still people that have to deal with these innovations. In the future we will have a lot of employees that come of the generation Z. What are the differences between generation Z and Y and how we have to handle them? How we have to adjust the culture of leadership and corporate identity to be attractive for this people?

Time	Activity
08:15	Start Registration
08:45	Opening
09:00	The Myth of System Analysis! How System Engineering Methods Help To Control Complexity Challenges of Product and System Development in 2022 Contrast & Compare: Complicated vs Complex How to deal with Complexity during development Successful Systems Engineering: integrated, iterative, flexible Manuel Schneider-Scheyer, Director R&D Electronics BU, Varroc Lighting Systems
9:30	The Company as a System - Managing Complexity Effectively Board decision and target setting Understanding and modelling the system Managing the change and the system Let it rock -> driving culture and involving people Uwe Caspary, Director of System Organization / Head of Quality Management, HOPPECKE Batterien GmbH & Co. KG
10:00	Stop Scaling Agility Our products are becoming increasingly complex. We spend more and more effort for managing complexity and dependencies. It is time to stop, take a break, to re-think the situation, and to re-claim the time and effort spend for something more useful: value generation. How? Let us learn from some innovative companies and follow the example of putting architecture and interfaces first. When we define interfaces first, we can eliminate complexity for a large part of our development organization. Make it complex for few and simple for many. I will provide some simple rules and principles you might want to reflect upon. Dr. Jens Paggel, Senior Transformation Lead, Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
10:30	Avoiding Complexity Cost Pitfalls: Gut Feeling vs. Hard Data Dealing with complexity in the digital age Opportunities in simplicity Good vs. bad complexity Exploiting data for successfully managing complexity costs Klaus D. Schopf, Partner, Schuh & Co.
11:00	Coffee Break with Networking
11:30	Digital Engineering - Standardization, modularity management and effective engineering (time and cost reduction) Efficient engineering à automatic generation of design documents and 3D step models Simplification and optimization of the engineering process Digital engineering from batch size 1 to serial production Cost and time reduction, margin and revenue recognition (RevReq) increase Carsten Girth, Global Engineering Manager, Pall Corporation
12:00	How Metrics Impact Complexity We tested many metrics in the areas of software, portfolio and release management Only a few metrics have been suitable to measure our progress But also the non-suitable have been of use to increase Klaus Marquardt, Platform Program Manager, Draeger Medical
12:30	Lunch with Networking
13:30	Leading Generation Z in an environment of complexity Beside all technical innovations to manage complexity there are still people that have to deal with these innovations. In the future we will have a lot of employees that come of the generation Z. What are the differences between generation Z and Y and how we have to handle them? How we have to adjust the culture of leadership and corporate identity to be attractive for this people? Rainer Brehm, Head of Plastic Process Engineering, Geberit Produktions GmbH
14:00	Did complexity kill Lean Manufacturing? The complexities of the Just In Time, inventory-as-waste Supply Chain... ... and the changes that have made it look foolish at best, and dangerous at worst What we've learned: where do we need to rethink our lean principles? What we shouldn't forget: what is the place of lean in the 'New Normal'? John Boothby, Continuous Improvement Manager, Paxton Access Ltd.
14:30	Coffee Break with Networking
15:00	Complexity Management in Practice: Examples from R&D The two sides of business strategy: Standards and Flexibility Digital R&D: Platforms, Data & Engineering Processes High Performance: Agile way of working Dr. Ingo Gaida, Director Strategy Development Central R&D, Miele & Cie. KG
15:30	A Brief History of Dealing with Product Complexity at MB Trucks Everything was simpler in the old days From build to stock to build to order Modularity in product documentation Modularity in product design The new dilemma: „What can be build - will be build - eventually“ Use Analytics and customer orientation as the next step Uwe Mierisch, Head of Engineering Management and Transformation MB Trucks, Daimler Truck AG
16:00	Complexity Management – Success Factors and Challenges What's the point of using data to address complex challenges? Are strict hierarchies suitable for managing complex systems? Do we need a cultural shift and tolerance of mistakes to succeed in our dynamic world? Thorben Stüvel, Senior Consultant, Schuh Group
16:30	Closing Discussion and Wrap-up

Time	Activity
08:15	Start Registration
08:45	Opening
09:00	The Myth of System Analysis! How System Engineering Methods Help To Control Complexity Challenges of Product and System Development in 2022 Contrast & Compare: Complicated vs Complex How to deal with Complexity during development Successful Systems Engineering: integrated, iterative, flexible Manuel Schneider-Scheyer, Director R&D Electronics BU, Varroc Lighting Systems
9:30	The Company as a System - Managing Complexity Effectively Board decision and target setting Understanding and modelling the system Managing the change and the system Let it rock -> driving culture and involving people Uwe Caspary, Director of System Organization / Head of Quality Management, HOPPECKE Batterien GmbH & Co. KG
10:00	Stop Scaling Agility Our products are becoming increasingly complex. We spend more and more effort for managing complexity and dependencies. It is time to stop, take a break, to re-think the situation, and to re-claim the time and effort spend for something more useful: value generation. How? Let us learn from some innovative companies and follow the example of putting architecture and interfaces first. When we define interfaces first, we can eliminate complexity for a large part of our development organization. Make it complex for few and simple for many. I will provide some simple rules and principles you might want to reflect upon. Dr. Jens Paggel, Senior Transformation Lead, Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
10:30	Avoiding Complexity Cost Pitfalls: Gut Feeling vs. Hard Data Dealing with complexity in the digital age Opportunities in simplicity Good vs. bad complexity Exploiting data for successfully managing complexity costs Klaus D. Schopf, Partner, Schuh & Co.
11:00	Coffee Break with Networking
11:30	Digital Engineering - Standardization, modularity management and effective engineering (time and cost reduction) Efficient engineering à automatic generation of design documents and 3D step models Simplification and optimization of the engineering process Digital engineering from batch size 1 to serial production Cost and time reduction, margin and revenue recognition (RevReq) increase Carsten Girth, Global Engineering Manager, Pall Corporation
12:00	How Metrics Impact Complexity We tested many metrics in the areas of software, portfolio and release management Only a few metrics have been suitable to measure our progress But also the non-suitable have been of use to increase Klaus Marquardt, Platform Program Manager, Draeger Medical
12:30	Lunch with Networking
13:30	Leading Generation Z in an environment of complexity Beside all technical innovations to manage complexity there are still people that have to deal with these innovations. In the future we will have a lot of employees that come of the generation Z. What are the differences between generation Z and Y and how we have to handle them? How we have to adjust the culture of leadership and corporate identity to be attractive for this people? Rainer Brehm, Head of Plastic Process Engineering, Geberit Produktions GmbH
14:00	Did complexity kill Lean Manufacturing? The complexities of the Just In Time, inventory-as-waste Supply Chain... ... and the changes that have made it look foolish at best, and dangerous at worst What we've learned: where do we need to rethink our lean principles? What we shouldn't forget: what is the place of lean in the 'New Normal'? John Boothby, Continuous Improvement Manager, Paxton Access Ltd.
14:30	Coffee Break with Networking
15:00	Complexity Management in Practice: Examples from R&D The two sides of business strategy: Standards and Flexibility Digital R&D: Platforms, Data & Engineering Processes High Performance: Agile way of working Dr. Ingo Gaida, Director Strategy Development Central R&D, Miele & Cie. KG
15:30	A Brief History of Dealing with Product Complexity at MB Trucks Everything was simpler in the old days From build to stock to build to order Modularity in product documentation Modularity in product design The new dilemma: „What can be build - will be build - eventually“ Use Analytics and customer orientation as the next step Uwe Mierisch, Head of Engineering Management and Transformation MB Trucks, Daimler Truck AG
16:00	Complexity Management – Success Factors and Challenges What's the point of using data to address complex challenges? Are strict hierarchies suitable for managing complex systems? Do we need a cultural shift and tolerance of mistakes to succeed in our dynamic world? Thorben Stüvel, Senior Consultant, Schuh Group
16:30	Closing Discussion and Wrap-up

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Complexity Management is the Key for Competitiveness in the Industry 4.0 Age

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