Dr. Wilhelm Otten
Owner & Senior Process and Digitalization Consultant
Industries: Chemical, Pharmaceutical & Mechanical Engineering
62 years old
37 years of experience
German & English
Educational background
Dipl.-Ing. General Mechanical Engineering
Doctorate: Process engineering
Executiv MBA: Wharton, Insead
Professional experience
Over 30 years in various functions at Evonik Industries AG, formerly Degussa AG
Product and process development in the process industry
Engineering; Investment projects from small-scale operational projects up to several hundred million investment sums
Production; maintenance
Service Marketing
Corporate strategy
Leadership of larger, global service organizations
GmbH management
More than 25 company-wide strategy and optimization projects in the above-mentioned areas
Member of the advisory board of the TTP-Engineering Group
Network
Namur: Association of users of automation technology in the process industry, chairman from 2011 to 2018
Dechema: DEXPI (Data Exchange in Process Industry), head of the “Networks” working group
VDI: IDGT (Interdisciplinary Committee Digital Transformation), member
TU-Darmstadt: Member of the board of the association of friends of the university
Consultant network: network of independent consultants
Scientific work
PhD in the field of process engineering, adsorption and dynamic simulation
About 50 development projects in the field of process engineering and solar energy
Over 100 publications in the areas of process development, engineering, operational excellence, maintenance, automation, asset life cycle management and digitization
Advisory board of the Max Planck Society for Dynamic Systems in Magdeburg
Lecturer at the private DIPLOMA University for “Business Process Management”
Recent publications
Wilhelm Otten, ChemManager 2/21; Im Asset Life Cycle denken; Nutzenorientierte Geschäftsmodelle auf Basis digitaler Technologien
Wilhelm Otten, CONNECTED MANUFACTURING SUMMIT 2020, November 5-6; Asset Life Cycle Data Management – integrated engineering.
Wilhelm Otten, Felix Hanisch; Smart Process Manufacturing | 2020-10; Automation – the driver of smart production
Wilhelm Otten, Kai Dadhe; CIEX 2020, October 8th; Digitalization through a bottom-up approach – How to generate added value in your brown field plants?
Consulting projects
Development of data integrated modular pilot plants, Senior Consultant ICES, Singapore
Optimization of processes and organization of engineering service
Development and implementation of digitalization strategies in a middle size company
Consulting start-ups in the area of digitalization and artificial intelligence