Philipp Lerchner

Consultant | Automotive Industry | Industrialization | Operational Performance Improvement

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About

+25 years of international experience handling Design, Engineering and Manufacturing projects for leading tier 1’s within the automotive industry as well as handling industrial design projects for leading European OEMs within telecom, consumer products, and industrial goods with product development in Europe and manufacturing set-up in China. International automotive program management experience involving project locations in Europe, Korea, China, and Mexico. Established experience from design class-A surface evaluation/concept phase till full PPAP process and product/process approval. Specially strong know-how on tool build processing and plastic moulding, including relocation and ramp-up of complex groups of tools and machines. Sustainable experienced with overall management of project economy, strategy implementation, and quality. Proven success in executive management guidance.

Experience

  • Automotive Consultant at Self-employed
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • Managing Director at The Skylark
    Feb 2005 - Present · 21 yrs 5 mos

    theSkylark´s portfolio includes everything from an design service in an early stage of a product development to the delivery of your sales-ready series products. Consultancy services for customers within the following areas: - plastic injection moulding - steel, iron, and aluminium moulding with different technologies (pressure, chill, precision casting, etc.) - forge and stamping technologies - quality management - supply change management incl. strategic supplier development - project management - production ramp-up management - claim and deviation management - crisis management - risk management - process optimization - Failure mode effect analyses (FMEA), Advanced product quality planning (APQP), PPAP, and measurement system analyses

  • E-P-M America Consulting Inc (Full-time · 9 yrs 6 mos)
    • General Manager, E-P-M America Consulting Inc
      Jan 2020 - Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Consultant and Key Account, E-P-M America Consulting Inc
      Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Consulting Partner
      Feb 2015 - Jan 2019 · 4 yrs

  • Plastic Omnium (3 yrs 1 mo)
    • Engineering Project Manager
      Dec 2015 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Executing all technical topics of an exterior system development as responsible engineering manager. Development of all external components made of plastic, particular Front- and Rearbumpers (Daimler/Mercedes/AMG/A-Class Sedan/Nafta Market). Project scope from Class-A-surface evaluation until fulfilment of PPAP/SOP. Project locations: Germany => China => Mexico. Details of project scope: • Product responsibility for the entire development process. • Start: Class-A surface evaluation. • Finish: PPAP Green, serial production (SOP + 3 months). • OEM / customer management over the entire project period. • Moderation of FMEA (design / process / product). • Tool concept planning. • Industrialization planning of molds / mechanical concepts. • Tolerance analyses / negotiation / capability fulfilment. • Functional test planning and testing. • Direct supplier management of all large tools. • Trial, acceptance and relocation of all molds from China / Korea => Mexico. • Project management (technical team, budget responsibility). • Planning and evaluation of processes, process capability analyzes, measuring system analysis. • Project transfer to the local production- and assembly plant according to the OEM standards. • Project completion with PPAP Green.

    • Engineering Project Manager
      Dec 2015 - Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Managing Director at Plasma One | the coating agency GmbH
    Sep 2009 - Dec 2018 · 9 yrs 4 mos

    The increase of product value through new coating technologies is a trend in many industries, and Plasma One follows a versatile approach allowing to be used in a wide-range of industries. We offer a competitive solutions regarding coating processes - the plasma-polymer coating technology.