Uwe Bauer

- Responsible of the consumer product quality lab (2 engineers)
- In charge of the European products evaluation and qualification
- Adaptation of the products to the standards of the European Market
- Established a statistical process control on key quality parameters
- Interface to the development in China
- Provide technical advise to the European direction
- Conduct field tests in France, Germany and Spain

- Define the product programmes objectives
- Pilot cost and material stock reduction projects (savings of 12 M € in 2005)
- Define a product range adapted to the economic and technical objectives
- Realise the detailed feature specifications of the new products
- Responsible of the product functional and performance specifications
- Assure the launch of a line-up of 50 products and an annual volume of 2.7 M units
- Validate the products for the launch on the European Market
- Participated to shrink the new product introduction from 12 to 8 months
- Contributed to improve the products software maturity level
- Assist the sales team in the elaboration of product sales support materials
- Present new products to B to B prospects

- Optimised the new product introduction process
- Manage the product information flow (definitions, specifications and schedules)
- Apply strict process and codification rules
- Elaborate the product specifications
- Prepare product options
- Control the cost and prices communicated by operations