Dr.-Ing. Olaf Sauer

  
Dr. Olaf Sauer studied Industrial Engineering at the Karlsruhe Technical University. After two years in a small company in Karlsruhe he moved to Berlin where in 1996 he took his PhD in Production Engineering from Prof. Spur. After his time at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) he became part of Bombardier Transportation, where he was in charge of the introduction of the Digital Mock-up and first applications of digital manufacturing.

After his time at Bombardier Dr. Sauer started his own business within the METROPLAN group dealing with production and material flow planning, manufacturing control and logistics, e.g. for DaimlerChrysler, smart, the GEA group and STILL.

He is today in charge of Fraunhofer IITB’s business unit production monitoring & control, supplying ProVis.Agent®, an agent based production monitoring and control system to Daimler plants in Bremen, Woerth and Sindelfingen.