You want to understand
- What is “holding your plant together at its core”?
- Whether you are already operating the plant at its limit?
- Why the machine has a defect?
Perhaps there have already been experts who have examined one aspect of your plant in great detail? You had problems deriving sensible economic decisions from the “technical jargon”?
Then perhaps you are missing a generalist in your team?
After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering, I have always had one reliable aid for a better understanding of plants and machines in my 23 years of professional life as an engineer: physics!
My strictly analytical-physical approach was shaped by the influence of many teachers, role models and partners. Mathematics and physics were already my favourite subjects during my school days at the mathematical-scientific-technical school in Rostock. I think with great pleasure of our underdog victory in the physics GDR championship as a team. During my studies I had good teachers in Rostock, Hamburg-Harburg, Dortmund and Glasgow. In addition to teaching knowledge, they always encouraged the joy of discovery. I gained my first professional experience at the TU Hamburg-Harburg. I then joined MET Motoren- und Energietechnik GmbH as a research engineer and later as managing director. Here I had an excellent teacher and partner in my father, Prof. Dr. Ing-habil Siegfried Bludszuweit. During these years, my way of working was further refined in many customer projects.
My working method can be compared quite well with that of a good general practitioner. First of all, I get an overall picture. To do this, I listen very carefully. With the help of existing data and additional examinations, I make a diagnosis. Then you and I work out a “therapy” for your system or machine together. Specialists from your company are involved at every step. For me, a project is only satisfactorily completed when the improvement has been measured.
In several hundreds of projects, my strictly physically based approach has proven its worth.
The methods I use are as varied as the tasks in industry. Sometimes the focus is on data acquisition, sometimes on the evaluation of big data, sometimes on calculations, sometimes on proving or disproving hypotheses.
Let’s practise together to distinguish causality from correlation 😊 !