How do others think about ZAGEL Consulting?
Consulting is a matter of trust – therefore it is interesting to learn how others think about the founder of ZAGEL Consulting. Here are some references.
“CERN started a PLM selection project in 1996 to manage the engineering data for the global LHC project, and made a in-depth analysis of different system suppliers and the associated support offered. In this context we first met Mathias Zagel and rapidly realized that he already then had a thorough understanding of the underlying coneptual issues as well as of the state of the PLM software industry.
Since the selection of the PLM tool from Eigner (now Oracle) Mathias Zagel has helped the CERN implementation team, in highly-productive regular workshops, to translate our specific requirements into a successful corporate service. The system, today known as ‘EDMS’, has more than 5.000 users spread around the world. […] The fact that the different implementations of EDMS have been made with exceedingly small teams can be traced back to the detailed analysis done at the project start-up. In this analysis effort the role of Mathias Zagel was crucial as the CERN team did not have any real experience of PLM systems. [… continue]”
Thomas Pettersson, EDMS Project leader
CERN, PS Division, Geneva,
Switzerland
“I have known Mathias for many years, beginning with his key role in Eigner+Partner. He was a long-term contributor to the development of Eigner+Partner’s solid PLM product line, which was acquired by Agile Software and then by Oracle. Mathias has shown himself to be a very knowledgeable resource to the PLM industry in general, with a unique focus on issues associated with product structuring and product variants in industries involving complex product configurations.”
Ed Miller, President
CIMdata, Inc., Ann Arbor,
MI 48108, USA
“At a customer meeting in 2003 I first met Mr. Zagel, who at that time was the responsible product manager for the PLM system at use in our company. His presentations and discussions with me and other customers demonstrated a profund knowledge of PLM and the requirements in product development. From my point of view Mr. Zagel was a main contributor for substance and quality of this meeting and following ones. His name on the agenda would thus pull me or my staff to such events.
For this reason it was of importance for me that Mr. Zagel and a colleague accepted our invitation for a workshop in early 2008 at our site. He helped us with capable recommendations how to fulfill our requirements regarding product structuring, alternative views on bills-of-material, and change management.”
Uwe Herrmann, CIO
GEDIA Gebrüder Dingerkus
GmbH, Attendorn, Germany
„In 2008 we decided to replace the existing internal sales configurator with an up-to-date solution based on our PLM system. Our implementation service provider pulled in Dr. Zagel as an expert for variant management. This decision was very beneficial for the project, since he helped us quickly finding the right answers to critical aspects regarding the structuring of our products with their large diversity and regarding the modeling of extensive configuration rules.
Dr. Zagel coordinated the involved software vendors to extend the interface between our PLM system and the new configuration frontend. At this point his experience as a former product manager was very helpful, as he can try to understand our world and translate into the language of software developers. This way he was able to come up with solution where our internal specialists got stuck and couldn't see a feasible way. We finally executed many of his suggestions.”
Dr. Manfred Paulus, Head of Productengineering Valves/Machines
Georg Fischer
Piping Systems, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
“Since the beginning of IT-support in manufacturing planning with the introduction of MRP system in 1990 we used ancestors of PLM – it just wasn't called ‘PLM’ back then. In 1999 we adopted a predecessor-release of today's Agile e6 and expanded this installation constantly – in level of functionality, numbers of users and business units. So far the focus was on core topics of traditional PDM: management of CAD documents and bills-of-material. Today we want to manage development processes across all sites world-wide and expand PLM to our technical backbone.
After updating to the latest PLM release we are aimed at optimizing our engineering change management. Additionally we have to extend the existing product structures to cope with the needs of some of our international subsidiaries. As these projects are of great importance, it was obvious that we needed sound high-level consulting. In 2008 we thus pulled in Dr. Zagel as an independent consultant.
Concerning the structuring of our products he created an individal concept for linking our engineering BOMs with the corresponding manufacturing processes. Regarding the optimizing of our engineering change management he specified the first implementation stages which we had previously agreed upon. In both areas Dr. Zagel impressed with his substantial experience and his cooperative style of discussion. Another aspect we enjoyed: all topics were dealt with in just a few workshops and with precise follow-ups.”
Helmut Wunderlich, CIO
Werner Turck GmbH & Co.
KG, Halver, Germany