Roland Jochem

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Jochem; Head of Chair Quality Science, Institute of Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF), Technical University Berlin, Germany (2010 – now). After studying Mechanical Engineering Roland Jochem from 1982-1987 he worked two years as a project engineer in a medium-sized engineering company. In the period from 1989-2001, he worked on research projects at the IWF, TU Berlin, and applied research projects at Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK). In the period 2001-2005, Prof. Jochem performed optimization projects in the area of product creation processes at Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH. From 2005-2010 he holds the chair on Quality and Process Management at the University of Kassel, Germany. Since 2010 he is an Extraordinary Professor of Quality Management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research and consulting focuses are model-based process-oriented quality, standardized quality processes, quality management, quality excellence, organizational design of quality departments, innovation and requirements management as well as Quality 4.0/Digital Quality. Prof. Jochem is the author of eleven books; Author of more than 100 Articles published in Journals, Conference Proceedings, and Edited Books.