thyssenkrupp Presta AG, the Steering business unit of the thyssenkrupp industrial group, is one of the world’s most successful manufacturers of steering systems and a technology leader in the field of massive forming.
A total of around 10,000 people are employed worldwide in 17 plants and four development locations. Steering systems for more than 20 million vehicles are developed and produced annually. Eschen in Liechtenstein is the company’s headquarters with around 2,500 employees.
The automotive environment is characterized by autonomous driving, connectivity and electrification. The team in Liechtenstein focuses on helping to shape these megatrends. In the future, new development trends in chassis and steering will also be taken up and brought to market. Based on these steering technologies, current development projects such as steer-by-wire and the further development of assistance systems as a precursor to autonomous driving will be advanced.
thyssenkrupp in every fourth car
The company attaches great importance to high quality standards and a strong environmental focus. The corporate philosophy is implemented by motivated and committed employees.
Together with the world’s best-known carmakers, the future is put on the road every day. One in four cars worldwide is equipped with a steering component from thyssenkrupp.
“With Projectworx, we have a top system with which we can implement our strategy and transfer it to the projects. Projectworx’s approach of supporting both strategic multi-project management and operational processing in the project is ideal for us.”
Michael Drolshagen, CEO thyssenkrupp Presta AG
Multi-stage introduction of Projectworx at thyssenkrupp
In the course of a cross-company evaluation project in 2016 and 2017, various project management solutions were analyzed with regard to their suitability for the company. The goal was to find software that was highly standardized but still offered the flexibility to map and harmonize the company’s various processes.
Projectworx was chosen and implemented in two phases.
After an introductory project with pilot projects, PROJECTWORX was introduced as the scheduling software for all projects at the beginning of the year 2020. Existing projects were migrated.
Strategic projects with KPIs, project charter documents and status reports were integrated.
Since 2022, Projectworx has also been used for task management and quality gate reviews.
For years, thyssenkrupp Presta AG has defined standards for quality gates (or review gates). These define how a project is structured and what requirements must be met in order to successfully pass through the gates. The processing of quality gate requirements was handled differently at each location. Together with LOP lists, todo lists, logs and emails, this resulted in a large number of data sources for tasks. With Projectworx, the process is now harmonized and mapped in a single system. Templates in Projectworx specify company-wide quality gate requirements as tasks that must be completed before a quality gate can be passed.
This means that people are working directly in Projectworx when preparing a gate, and documenting the quality gate is just the last step. This creates a very good database that can be used to identify problems and deviations from the plan in advance, so that countermeasures can be taken at an early stage.
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