MATT D. WIELAND is a Senior Business Coach, Corporate Facilitator and International Manager with more than 20 years of professional experience. Matt speaks German, English, Italian, Spanish and basic French and Bahasa Malaysia and has been in Asia for more than ten years.
He is a highly skilled communicator and motivator experienced in dealing with the Corporate and the Educational Sectors. He holds a masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Germany. Matt D. Wieland is also a Certified Lean Practitioner in Industrial Services and Manufacturing Environments with UTM (Germany) and a Certified Business Process Coach.
We are an international team of coaching and consulting practitioners with expertise in various fields of corporate industrial management. mdw international consists of a network of full- and part-time coaches and consultants, who are based in Europe and South/Southeast Asia. Depending on the project scope and the specific requirements of the client a team of experts will be established in order to cater for the qualification needs in the respective field. This includes language support in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Malay.
Key members of our team:
- Matt D. Wieland - Managing Owner & Senior Consultant (Hong Kong & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- Thinakaran Periasamy - Senior Business Coach (Penang, Malaysia)
- Teh Chin Weng - Business Coach & Consultant (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
- Gernot Leeb - Senior Logistics/Supply Chain Manager (Germany, Austria)
Matt has been managing plant operations and has been involved in strategic corporate business development and large-scale project management and worked in Europe, in the USA and Mexico and in the Southeast Asian region (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the Philippines). He has gained experience in the electronics, automotive, semi-conductor, photo-voltaic, automation, metal processing, health care and FMCG industries.
Currently based in Malaysia, he has been focusing on lean production systems, logistics and supply-chain management applying his in-depth expertise in OEE, TQM and TPM lean manufacturing methods and computerized production, maintenance and logistics management. At the same time as a Senior Manager and Business Coach he has developed and conducted courses mainly in the manufacturing sector as an integral part of high performance and productivity programs. In terms of organizational development he is very well versed in establishing successful self-directed work teams in production environments.
His latest project activities comprise:
- Interim management in Production and Plant Operations (Metal-processing Industry, staff size ~1000).
- Optimizing short- and middle-term capacity planning and factory utilization (Metal-processing Industry in Germany and Malaysia) using TPM, TQM and OEE lean methodologies.
- Identifying alternative sourcing channels with Suppliers in Southeast Asia to support global procurement strategies (Component Manufacturers in Germany, USA and Malaysia).
- Designing and implementing new maintenance concept towards preventative maintenance measures (Metal-processing Industry in Malaysia).
- Streamlining of internal/external supply-chain activities with focus on overall productivity, WIP/inventory, cycle times and service levels.
- Restructuring traditionally organized production and support departments into self-directed, cross-functional work teams with focus on team performance and sustainable empowerment of employees (Metal-processing Industry in Malaysia).
- Guest lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Petronas UTP (http://www.utp.edu.my) in Tronoh (Malaysia) on Lean Operations Management.