Certificate Course: Managing Product Complexity | Attendance Part
Web seminar:
October 14-16, 2025
Face-to-face seminar:
November 26-28, 2025
In order to successfully master the growing product complexity in companies in a customer-oriented manner, the Complexity Management Academy has set up an executive program with the certificate course “Managing Product Complexity”, which answers individual questions on the sustainable and economic anchoring of complexity management in the corporate structure.
Further information
Agenda
Time Programme item 09:10 Begrüßung und Einführung Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 09:30 Grundlagen des Komplexitätsmanagements Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 10:15 Kaffeepause 10:30 Management komplexer Produkte aus Sicht des Marketings – Strategien der Segmentierung und der Kundenorientierung Prof. Dr. Florian Siems, TU Dresden 11:30 Kaffeepause 11:45 Workshop: Management komplexer Produkte aus Sicht des Marketings – Strategien der Segmentierung und der Kundenorientierung Prof. Dr. Florian Siems, TU Dresden 12:30 Wrap-up (5 Minuten) und Zertifikatquiz (10 Minuten) Time Programme item 8:50 Begrüßung Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 09:00 Strategien des Komplexitätsmanagements in Zeiten des digitalen Wandels Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 09:45 Komplexitätsmanagement bei Viega Dr. Jonas Riest, Viega GmbH & Co. KG 10:45 Kaffeepause 11:00 Datenbasiertes Variantenmanagement I/II Lennard Knobel, WZL der RWTH Aachen 12:00 Wrap-up (5 Minuten) und Zertifikatquiz (10 Minuten) Time Programme item 08:55 Begrüßung Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 09:00 Datenbasiertes Variantenmanagement II/II Lennard Knobel, WZL der RWTH Aachen 10:30 Kaffeepause 10:45 5 to drive – Complexity KPI Marisa De Bellis, Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG 11:30 Kaffeepause 11:45 Kosteneffekte durch Variantenvielfalt Timm Schulz-Isenbeck, WZL der RWTH Aachen 12:30 Wrap-up (5 Minuten) und Zertifikatquiz (10 Minuten) Time Programme item 8:30 Begrüßung Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 9:00 Produktarchitektur- und Baukastengestaltung Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 10:15 Kaffeepause 10:30 Organisatorische Verankerung des Komplexitätsmanagements Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 12:00 Mittagspause 13:15 Workshop: Baukastengestaltung I/II Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 14:30 Kaffepause 15:00 Workshop: Baukastengestaltung II/II Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 16:00 Wrap-up (5 Minuten) und Zertifikatquiz (10 Minuten) Time Programme item 08:45 Begrüßung Frederike Hellwig, WZL der RWTH Aachen 09:00 Next Level Komplexitätsmanagement Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Riesener, WZL der RWTH Aachen 10:30 Kaffeepause 11:00 Komplexitätsbeherrschung im Variantenmanagement durch modellbasierte Systementwicklung (MBSE) Bastian Menninger, Center for Systems Engineering 12:00 Mittagessen 13:15 Die Komplexität von Produkten messen: So lösen wir gordischen Knoten des Komplexitätsmanagements Dr. Maximilian Pasche, CLAAS KGaA mbH 14:30 Kaffeepause 15:00 Von der Planung zur Umsetzung: ein praxisorientierter Blick auf die Herausforderungen und Erfolge einer PLM-Einführung Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wank, Pepperl+Fuchs SE 16:00 Wrap-up (5 Minuten) und Zertifikatquiz (10 Minuten) Time Programme item 08:30 Psychologische Einflussgrößen auf das Entscheidungsverhalten Dr. Dirk Lüttgens, Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement (TIM) 10:15 Kaffeepause 10:30 Abschlussvortrag Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 11:15 Wrap-Up und Zertifikatquiz 12:00 Mittagspause 13:15 Abschluss der Kurswoche und Zertifikatverleihung Dr.-Ing. Alexander Keuper, Complexity Management Academy 14:15 Ausklang und Ende
Event description
Companies are trying to meet increasingly heterogeneous and individual customer requirements by increasing the number of variants. In addition to the increasing functionality of products due to the increased integration of different technologies, this leads to highly complex product programs. In order to master the growing product complexity in companies successfully and in a customer-oriented manner, the Complexity Management Academy has developed an executive program with the certificate course “Managing Product Complexity”, which answers individual questions on the sustainable and economic anchoring of complexity management in the corporate structure. The course is divided into the modules fundamentals and strategies of complexity management, mastering external (market-side) and internal (company-side) complexity as well as the organizational anchoring of complexity management. The objective is to impart key skills for managers in development and sales areas. To this end, experts from industry and research highlight current trends and developments in complexity management and use case studies and exercises to convey state-of-the-art methods and knowledge for efficient work. The course also creates a network between participants and speakers.
Your advantage:
- Intensive courses lasting several days (digital and physical)
- Selected contributions from experts in industry and research
- Certificate from RWTH Aachen University
- Teaching of key skills
- Presentation and application of state-of-the-art methods and knowledge in complexity management
- Raising awareness of current and future tasks
- Creation of a network between participants and speakers
Topic areas
- Fundamentals and strategies of complexity management
- Mastering external and internal complexity
- Organizational anchoring of complexity management
Target group
Your contact
Frederike Hellwig
Mobil: +49 175 7138991
Frederike.Hellwig@complexity-academy.com
Experience
- Consultancy project for the integrated design of a modular product and production concept
- Consultancy project for the design and implementation of a PLM strategy and introduction of a modular system for a machine manufacturer
- Conducting assessments of the degree of maturity of digitalisation and sustainability in development and production
- Supervision of an industry working group in the field of market intelligence
- Conceptual design, planning and implementation of a certificate course on complexity management