Who’s behind PPI
Experience in production, software and data.
PPI brings together people with different backgrounds. For now, founder André Aßmann is the public face of the project. We describe other contributors by their expertise until their names and photos can be shared.
Your point of contact
André Aßmann
Founder and industry lead for PPI
Interim Manager and founder of Macht des Faktischen
André Aßmann shapes PPI’s direction, defines its industrial use cases and works with pilot, solution and development partners.
His work brings knowledge of equipment and day-to-day production together with data analysis that can be traced back to its sources. People remain responsible for asking the right questions, interpreting the findings and deciding what happens next.
Expertise behind PPI
PPI draws on production and technical expertise.
PPI’s development draws on people with different backgrounds. What matters is not a long list of names, but the combination of production knowledge, software engineering and informed technical review.
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Production and operations
First-hand experience of production processes, sources of loss, quality demands, capacity limits and the trade-offs teams face every day.
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Software, data and AI
Software engineering expertise, data models, interfaces and reproducible analysis methods form PPI’s technical foundation.
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Operators and production specialists
People who run the plant add context, challenge assumptions and test whether a technical conclusion makes sense.
Clear responsibilities. Respect for confidentiality.
Some contributors cannot or do not wish to be named publicly yet. We do not fill the gaps with invented names or anonymous portraits. Once roles are clear and people have agreed to be named, we can add more detail to this page.
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