Werner Dumanski was IBM's top manufacturing executive prior to joining
Nanosolar, responsible for the company's $4.5 billion storage
components business, a world-wide organization of 12,000 people, and a
billion-dollar equipment budget. One of the largest volume producers of
thin-film disks and recording heads in the world, Dumanski's unit
generated as much as 60% of all of IBM's profit while successfully
implementing several generations of the i...
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Werner Dumanski was IBM's top manufacturing executive prior to joining
Nanosolar, responsible for the company's $4.5 billion storage
components business, a world-wide organization of 12,000 people, and a
billion-dollar equipment budget. One of the largest volume producers of
thin-film disks and recording heads in the world, Dumanski's unit
generated as much as 60% of all of IBM's profit while successfully
implementing several generations of the industry's most challenging and
advanced new disk technologies. As part of this, Dumanski also
succeeded in delivering on one of the steepest manufacturing ramp-ups
ever for a high-tech product -- for a new storage disk that enabled the
Apple iPod product. Werner Dumanski started his career at IBM's wafer
and disk production operation in Mainz, Germany, helping ramp this
business to a high volume operation with the industry's leading cost
structure. In 1993, he assumed responsibility for IBM's San Jose
recording manufacturing operation which he overhauled, increasing wafer
production by a factor of 3, reducing cycle time by a factor of 6, and
establishing a modern SPC and APC controlled factory.
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