QRelation Management Team
Multi-sector project partner for consulting and implementation, project solutions and management products
Interim management or expert knowledge for your assignments
As a reliable and competent partner for SMEs and major corporations, we serve technology sectors such as the aerospace industry, wind power industry and many more.
We support companies in meeting their future challenges and positioning themselves accordingly in the competitive environment. Our holistic approach includes planning, implementation support, continuous optimisation and qualification.
Our experts understand the problems and challenges arising within development, production and management. Our solutions make your company fit for the future and increase your competitiveness.
Experience gained in numerous projects and project management certified to PMI standards enables us to consistently master even larger projects successfully. Our processes and project procedures are documented and we hold DIN EN 9100 certification.
We have an unlimited licence to supply temporary workers in accordance with the German law (Gesetz zur Regelung der Arbeitnehmerüberlassung).
Corporate Development
- 2011: Company foundation with focus on interim management
- 2015: Foundation of subsidiary QRelation Engineering Team
- 2020: Acquisition of GMA Engineering GmbH
Contract forms
- Work package
- Service contract
- Temporary employment
40+ permanently employed specialists
Experienced managers and experts
Quality management and production support along the entire product development process
- 15 years professional experience (on average)
- 50% male 50% female
- 70% engineers 30% technicians
Competencies
Quality management, supplier management, manufacturing technology, digitisation, materials management and logistics, first article inspections, IT security and protection as well as process and project management are key aspects in terms of our assignments.
The management
Stefan Karstens
CEO
Entrepreneur, general management, business development, strategy, M&A.
Stefan Heinsohn
CFO
Digitalisation, procurement, logistics, production, finances, marketing and management.
Frank Glade
Managing Partner
Aero – strategic management, engineering, production.
Anthony Cardozo
Managing Partner
Consulting, custom construction, mechanical engineering, medtech and product development.
The associated partners
Interim and project managers with exceptional expertise
QRelation partners are all well versed in interim and project management. Each one is availed of longstanding professional experience and exceptional expertise. Our associated partners (in alphabetical order):
Melanie Albrecht
Wind Energy – Auditor and Quality Manager
Management, control of process projects, offshore wind energy. Expert QM/QA/QC.
Bernhard Bertrams
Business Development
Management, strategy, change management, business development, marketing and sales, M&A.
Britta Burmeister
Medical – QM, IT, Strategy
ISO/IEC 17024 certified expert. IT environment – software & processes, IT management and management consulting.
Isabelle Coudert
Aero – Lean and Supply Chain Manager, QM Auditor
Management of procurement, material planning and disposition, supplier quality and production control.
Aziz Erdinc
Aerospace & Aviation Consultant
General Management, Business Development, Marketing & Sales, Strategy / M&A, Procurement, Supply-Chain, Project Management, Maintenance and MRO-Services.
Michael Fleischer
Aero – Sales, POA/DOA, MRO
Business development, strategy, program management, maintenance, engineering and manufacturing: approval and QM.
Marcel Gerlach
Electrical & Information Technology
Technical consulting, technical planning and construction management, energy concepts, technical due diligence.
Torven Hartz
EMS Production, Logistics
Specialist for electronics production and logistics: personnel, production, processes.
Georg Hemmer
Aero – Business Development, Engineering, Production, …
Sales and marketing, R&D, production, finance and accounting, controlling, personnel.
Klaus Hilbrath
Logistics and Supply Chain
Several industries and functions. High methodological competence for production and sales.
Volker Hummel
IT Security, QM Processes, FAI, …
Lead auditor QMS / Security engineer: Information security as well as IT security.
Christian Jauch
Organizational Psychologist
Consultant, trainer and coach: Support for change projects, personnel and organizational development.
Saniya Karadal
Aero & Defense– Auditor and Quality Manager
AS/EN9100 and ISO9001: internal audits, supplier audits, and customer and regulatory audits.
Maik Leder
Interim und Change Manager
Management of strategic innovation, project management and product development as well as customer and supplier relations.
Michael Lischke
Aero – Training and Consulting
Partner for questions regarding failure and cost reduction in development and production processes.
Daniel Mages
Automotive
Project management, project leadership, consulting: test management, software testing, embedded systems.
Marc Maury
Business Development France
Management of complex, transnational projects in the fields of business development, aerospace & defence, engineering services, etc.
Jan Nagel
Energy, Automotive, Health
Interim manager, project manager or quality assurance manager. Focus on decarbonization and digitization.
Thorsten Müller
Aerospace
Operations, production and supply chain, as well as engineering and programme management.
Become a partner
Join our team as an associated partner. Let us achieve goals together but also creating new personal and professional perspectives!
Hans J. Petscher
Aerospace (civil and military)
Airworthiness expert: Aircraft and -Systems Certification, qualification and certification (parts and appliances), certification (organsisations).
Alfred Rehwald
Telecommunications, Aero, Automotive, Mechanical Engineering
M&A, reorganisation, controlling and process optimisation, change management.
Fritz Schaumann
Aero – Supply Industry
Engineering, production, program and project management, technical management.
Michael Schirmer
Aerospace SMEs
Engineering, business development & sales and strategic planning.
Become a partner
Join our team as an associated partner. Let us achieve goals together but also creating new personal and professional perspectives!
Lars Spresny
Aerospace, Automotive
Lightweight Design, Jigs & Tools, Offshoring, Business Development, Project Management, Team Lead.
Dirk Tapella
Aero – CEO / CFO
Tricky projects and complex interim mandates within aviation and military sector.
Rüdiger Vollmerhaus
Aero, Wind Energy, Service Provider
Operations management, technical management, production management, PM, QM/QA.
Become a partner
Join our team as an associated partner. Let us achieve goals together but also creating new personal and professional perspectives!
Susanne Weydringer
Aero – PM, Engineering
Aircraft cabin, conversion and engineering.
Heinz Willich
QM, Processes
Program and quality management with focus on supplier development and qualification.
Heino Zaeschmar
Logistics and supply chain, various industries
Warehouse and distribution logistics, transport management, supplier management.
The network of companies
with 200+ experts for topic-related integration
Benefit from our competent network of cooperation and market partners for topic-based collaboration, which we call upon in consultation with you and as required.
Aero, MedTech, ... Engineering
If you require engineering support within the aerospace, medical technology, plant engineering or shipbuilding sectors, including commensurate project management for major projects – then get in touch with our subsidiary QRelation Engineering Team GmbH.
The team portfolio encompasses classic development in the areas of development and design, calculation and, of course, project and quality management. In addition, production-related engineering services such as production monitoring, testing, commissioning and the certification of solutions also form part of our comprehensive range of services.
Aviation Management Consulting
Together with its partners, SynAvia offers expert advice on efficient production, digitalisation & automation as well as cooperations, joint ventures, company transitions and in the search for trustworthy investors to raise capital.
SynAvia has a distinctive network of competent, experienced experts who work for and with you with expertise, discretion and reliability.
Digital Transformation
In our capacity as a full service provider, with our 360° totaldigital we provide you with all you need for the transformation of your supply chain, production, maintenance and service.
Generate a fluid treasure trove of data from various data streams with data engineering
An increasing amount of data is created within your company; and that data contains strategic knowledge, a key to your company’s success. We use data engineering to open up all relevant data sources for you and direct the data flow in the right direction. For this to happen the data has to be of the right quality; it should be retrievable and processable.
Use our support to analyse, structure, clean up or enrich your data streams, which can then be optimally used for data science projects or deep learning. Get additional recourse to our wealth of experience in relation to technology selection and the required database architecture.
Use data science for faster digital transformation with existing data and systems
Nowadays machines store large amounts of sensor data. Conventional methods of data processing are not able to structure this information effectively. With data science, your company will quickly exploit the full potential of digitisation. We analyse different data amounts and structures. The spectrum of analysis methods includes statistics as well as machine learning methods, including deep learning.
Downtime and wear firmly under control with digital processes
With digitalised and networked processes in production tailored to your company, you have downtime as well as system and component wear precisely under control.
With a suitable maintenance strategy, the right maintenance concept and the design and introduction of appropriate productive and administrative processes, we ensure that your plant runs as expected.
Customised to meet your needs: materials management, logistics and supplier management are geared towards supplying your plant – fully in line with your requirements and cost-efficiently.
Significant productivity advantages through end-to-end assistance systems
Digital twins not only significantly increase efficiency by eliminating the need for time-consuming searches or manual data entry; they also avoid latitude and errors in the interpretation of documents and consequently also significantly increase the quality of products or processes.
Process digitisation and process assistance through smart assistance systems for structured digitisation of manual processes or partial automation in combination with intelligent tools, such as measuring devices, industrial machines, indoor navigation systems, barcode scanners, QR code recognition, laser scanners and many more.
Assistance systems do not simply extract data from design, repair and assembly instructions, HR documents, databases and other data sources; they also interpret and understand them (automated)!
Employees are therefore provided with the respective process in 3D via an app on a tablet or smartphone or via data or augmented reality glasses, depending on the context. If required, a fast real-time search can be integrated, allowing access to all information on the current work process.
In the relevant application, the user triggers the automated, downstream documentation of the work results simply by selecting or confirming contents.
In production, this even allows automatic detection of defects in components. Lesions can be imaged with additional information using data glasses and the automated analysis is made available via laser scanners.
Let us advise you in detail about the various possibilities!
Executive Recruitment
QRelation successfully works with mposition as cooperation partner in the field of executive recruitment, one of its management products.
As a human resource consultancy, mposition provides support in filling vacant positions, focussing primarily on working with industrial markets and sectors.
Management Consulting: Automotive, Consumer Goods, ...
PULSAR provides solutions along the vertical value chain for manufacturing, trade and the service sector. PULSAR clients range from well-established companies to start-ups. In particular, prestigious, efficiency-driven and highly competitive industries such as automotive, energy, TMT and fashion rely on PULSAR.
Sales Management / Sales Outsourcing
Since 2004, COMPETENCE Business Development GmbH & Co. KG has been one of the leading management consultancies for sustainable corporate growth. The portfolio for medium-sized business and industry clients ranges from strategy development and method planning to the implementation of optimisation and change processes in marketing, sales and corporate management.
COMPETENCE also takes on interim tasks in sales management and acts nationally and internationally as an external sales force in the demanding B2B segment (sales outsourcing).
We are active
in the following associations and organisations to help address pertinent challenges and issues, primarily in the aerospace sector.
Hamburg Aviation
QRelation is a member of Hamburg Aviation. Hamburg Aviation is the brand name of the “Luftfahrtcluster Metropolregion Hamburg e.V.” (Aviation Cluster Hamburg Metropolitan Region), an association of companies, research institutes, educational institutions and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, with the goal of promoting the aviation industry in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.
Hanse Aerospace
QRelation is a member of HANSE-AEROSPACE, Germany’s largest association of small and medium-sized aerospace companies.
Member companies represent a broad spectrum of development enterprises, manufacturers and maintenance companies as well as aerospace service companies (mainly engineer, personnel and technical documentation service providers).
Niedersachsen Aviation
QRelation is a member of Niedersachsen Aviation.
Niedersachsen Aviation is a network for promoting the aviation and aerospace industry in Northern Germany. Its goal is to strengthen and enhance the national and international competitiveness of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).
SPACE™
SPACE™ (Supply chain Progress towards Aeronautical Community Excellence) is a non-profit association comprising European civil aeronautical industry actors.
The objective of SPACE™, a professional non-profit association, is to pool its available expertise to serve the European aerospace community and to support all local and global projects involving industrial excellence initiatives.
