Vice President Operations Strategy & CI, Hitachi Energy, BU Transformers

Dr.-Ing. Bernd C. Schmidt

Since 2019 global responsibility for Operations Strategy and Continuous Improvement in the BU Transformers of Hitachi Energy with about 60 factories globally. This includes responsibility for Production Management System and the Operations Cost-Out Program. In 2016 Head of Inhouse Consulting at ABB and later global responsibility for the Lean Six Sigma program at ABB.

2001 to 2015 at Kearney, a global consultancy, for the last 4 years as Partner in the Operations Practice. In this function head of the “Factory of the Year” benchmarking competition.

Before joining Kearny, Dr Schmidt was managing director of IPH-Institut für Integrierte Produktion Hannover GmbH in Hannover. In 1996, he earned a PhD in the area of Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling.