Karsten Heuser

Advancing 10+ industries with Additive Manufacturing | VP AM Siemens Digital Industries | Board Member Bavaria Makes e.V., AM Association of VDMA, Formnext, Rapid.tech3D | Shaping Next Gen Manufacturing & Sustainability

Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

About

I am passionate about helping designers, machine builder and manufacturers to reimagine what‘s possible - transforming ideas intro industrial realities with Additive Manufacturing. Every day, I work with industry leaders to accelerate this transformation, unlock profitable business models, and develop the eco-system along the value chain. Additive Manufacturing enables the next generation of Designs and Manufacturing across 10+ industries, but companies struggle in navigating towards high quality, target costing, certified and high quality processes. As Vice President of Additive Manufacturing at Siemens Digital Industries, I help machine builders, designers and manufacturers to navigate to successfully industrialization of AM leveraging the power of the eco system as well as Siemens‘ unique technology of industrial AI, Software, and Automation. Our end-to-end solutions support customers at every step-from design to factory planning, workflow automation with AI up to smart financing. This empowers our customers to design, make and use additive application at scale. I am shaping the ecosystem across Germany with regional associations like Bavaria Makes e.V., VDMA, Germany Makes, I AM Hamburg, Rapid.Tech3D, and Formnext as well as on European level with AM-Europe. Besides that I am engaged internationally, may it be in Americas, China or APAC. If you‘re interested in shaping the future of next gen manufacturing If you want to explore how AM would influence your company If you want to develop and sell better machine for AM If you are active in AM and would like to navigate into the next maturity level Let‘s connect!

Experience

  • Siemens (14 yrs 11 mos)
    • VP Additive Manufacturing & Head of Advanced Manufacturing & Circularity CCT
      Apr 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

      I lead Siemens’ Digital Industries efforts to successfully utilize Additive Manufacturing with Siemens Software, AI & Automation, addressing designer, manufacturer or machine builders to successfully advance manufacturing. Across Siemens we shape the transformation to circularity as a Siemens wide Core Technology Field. Industrialization of Additive Manufacturing with Siemens automation and software offerings along the complete value chain of AM machine builder and end customers. Shape the transformation to circularity for Siemens based on CCT framework

    • Head of Product Lifecycle Excellence
      Aug 2014 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      How to transform large conglomerates into lean and agile development? Siemens Development System #SDS, lean start-up, open source software development, make rapid innovation, build and coach high performance network driven cross functional teams

    • Manager R&D Productivity
      Apr 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Managing a multi business unit efficiency program in the Siemens Sector Energy

  • General Manager OLED Lighting at OSRAM
    2005 - Jul 2011 · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Start-up on OLED lighting, worlds first OLED luminaries, transparent OLEDs, Process Development, first production plant for small molecule OLED lighting

  • Entwicklungsingenieur at Siemens
    1999 - 2005 · 6 yrs

    develop printed organic electronics technology, full color OLED displays, flexible OLED Displays as development engineer and project manager