Dr. Marc Wucherer

Executive Vice President Sales

Independent management and technical consulting work in the area of Industrie 4.0, digitalization, internationalization, drives and controller technology.

Global P&L responsibility of Large Drives Industry Applications in the field of medium and high voltage motors, generators and drives. It contains product, systems and solution business in various branches and customized applications. The global network consists of 9 main production sites including R&D forces. Here I drove innovations, optimizing customer interface and adapting cost structures. Additional project lead for increasing localization activities in China.

Executive Vice President SLC / President Industry Sector, NEA: The Cluster of NEA comprises China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia and until 2011 also Korea. Industry Sector NEA consists of over 60 sales offices and 16 factories, R&D and engineering companies.The role of the President of the Sector contains beside the business responsibility to be the interface to the local authorities (national, provincial and municipal Governments) and international chambers.

The GM of the Industry Division Drives Technologies was in charge of the local Business Units, a kind of local HQ-Function, and also of different JVs / Operating Companies. The sales organization did not belong to this position. DT was one of the 3 divisions of the Industry Sector. This division had approximately 7.000 employees and 8 operating companies in China

The tasks of the CEO of the IA&DT Divisions are to drive the sales growth of products, systems and solutions and create customer intimacy. This role characterizes the highest representative and decision maker in the region for customers. The GM of the Regional Office Cologne has different official mandates in various organizations. Like member of the Chamber of Commerce of Cologne and different other municipal bodies and in universities, e.g. RWTH Aachen

The main task of the GM of the A&D Division is driving sales growth of products, systems and solutions as well as to create customer intimacy. This was overachieved during these 2 years. This role characterizes the highest representative and decision maker in the region for customers. The Spokesman of the Regional Office Cologne has different official mandates in various organizations, like member of Chamber of Commerce of Cologne and different other municipal bodies and universities, e.g. RWTH Aachen.

SNC developed and produced products and systems for machine tools / production machines for Chinese and global markets. Job content was to educate local Chinese staff in R&D and production processes, e.g. the lean manufacturing etc. It was intensively enhanced procedures in logistics, product / process quality, suppliers and supplier qualification. Other tasks were to transfer and localize products from Germany. The GM was responsible of keeping relationship to the local authorities and governments.

The responsibilities were SW and HW development of products and systems for machine tools / production machines and different automation systems, including CNC and other motion controls, PLC, HMI, drives and various components. We built an environment for localization activities to transfer products to China as well as for innovation for the local and global market. Besides keeping close contacts to local universities, one of main task was reduce the fluctuation rate as low as possible

I built up successfully a new R&D department for system components of instabus EIB (European Installation Bus) within the Business Unit. These components were designed for different communication media (Twisted Pair, Power Line and Radio Frequency). The main tasks of the group were beside HW-Design and SW development (component / PC), also international standardization in the different European bodies.

Reflects just short step in-between before the role of the R&D manager. Main tasks were the sales of system products and components which are the bases for the office and home automation system EIB to OEM partners in Europe

Main tasks during this assignment market research for load power supplies and the evaluation of localization possibilities in different productions sites in 4 different countries in South East Asia.

Siemens’ career started in the Siemens Graduate Program in HQ function in Fuerth and regional sales function in Cologne

Market / customer driven design of products and production processes in low cost countries, especially influencing the processes of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and SCM (Supply Chain Management)

Business Administration

Automatic Control Engineering; Drive Technology; Motion Control