Rene Wolf has been Director Manufacturing Vehicle Operations at Ford of Europe since 2017 and a member of the Management Board of Ford-Werke GmbH since October 2021, responsible for the Manufacturing division1. His career at Ford began in 1991 in the Quality department at Ford of Europe1.
Born in Thuringia, he studied electrical engineering/electronics at the Technical University of Dresden. Over the course of his career, he has worked in various areas of manufacturing, quality and production start-ups at the Ford plants in Cologne, Saarlouis, Kocaeli (Turkey), Craiova (Romania), England and South Africa2. From 2015 to 2017, he was Vice President Manufacturing at Ford Sollers in Russia before returning to Cologne.
(4) CHALLENGE YOUR PEERS
Monday, September 30
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Live in Berlin
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What specific challenges and opportunities do you see in the digitalisation of the final assembly line in your company?
Which digital technologies and integration strategies have proven to be particularly effective in your production?
How do you measure and evaluate the efficiency gains and quality improvements achieved through digitalisation?
Panel Discussion
Monday, September 30
06:30 pm - 07:00 pm
Live in Berlin
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We live in a world where everything is in motion – and also the long-standing manufacturing industries feel a growing to change their traditional business models. As new standards arise, and new players have entered the field the need to digitalize products and production grows in order to stay competitive. At the same time the demand for more sustainability grows as well. In this panel discussion the panelits explore how IIoT and other technologies can help to realize a more sustainable production from a business need perspective.