Michael Macht

Michael Macht ( born August 28, 1960 in Stuttgart) is production manager at Volkswagen and former executive board of Porsche Automobil Holding.

Career

Born in Stuttgart, Michael Macht is a mechanical engineer with a degree from the University of Stuttgart. After working as a researcher at the Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, in which he carried out restructuring and organizational projects at major German companies, he joined in 1990 as a subject specialist motor planning at Porsche on. The former production chief Wiedeking recognized the gift Machts in work organization and made ​​him his speakers. In 1991 he took charge of the organization of work.

Also known as Wiedeking 1992 CEO of itself located in economic difficulties Porsche AG, was power his right hand. Together they studied the Lean Manufacturing Japanese car companies, to implement it with Porsche and its suppliers. Because of the productivity gains in transforming the manufacturing to requests from external interested in the concepts, after 1994, the Porsche Consulting GmbH in Bietigheim -Bissingen was founded as a subsidiary of Porsche under the leadership of power developed. Within the first four years, the sales of highly profitable subsidiary tenfold to around. 13 million German marks.

Beginning in June 1998 rose Michael power in the executive board of Porsche AG and was responsible for the production and logistics. On 23 July 2009, the Supervisory Board appointed power to succeed Wendelin Wiedeking as chief executive officer of Porsche AG and the executive board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE.

On July 6, 2010 Porsche and Volkswagen announced that Michael Power Switch 1 October 2010 to the Executive Board of Volkswagen and there as a Board Member for Production Jochem Heizmann below. Machts successor of Porsche, Matthias Mueller, previously Head of Product Strategy at VW.

On 19 November 2010 Power was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stuttgart.