Michael Ketting

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Michael Ketting (r) in an expert discussion with Wolfgang Poppy (2016)

Michael Ketting (born February 27, 1950 in Lengenfeld ) is a German engineer . He was Scientific Director of the Institute for Construction Machinery, Drive and Conveyor Technology (IBAF) in Bochum and honorary professor for conveyor systems and construction machine technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Ketting is recognized worldwide as a recognized specialist for caterpillar and track technology on construction machinery . He is Honorary President of the Expert Panel of Construction Equipment Munich District - Expert Panel of Construction Equipment .

Life

Michael Ketting studied control engineering at the Technical University of Dresden under Heinrich Kindler and the philosophy of science (history of physics) at the Humboldt University in Berlin under Karl-Friedrich Wessel , where he wrote a dissertation on development problems in the history of solid-state physics (mechanical solid-state properties) as Dr. . phil. received his doctorate.

Michael Ketting began his industrial activity in 1974 as a technical manager in communications and measurement technology at PFA Plauen (Vogtland) . After completing his doctorate, he became Head of Research and Development at the Baumechanisierung company in Lengenfeld (Vogtland) in 1981 , and since then he has been working in the field of construction machinery and crawler chassis technology. Ketting initially dealt with the automated production and assembly of construction machinery chassis, also taking into account the effective use of industrial robots . During this time joint work with Heinz Töpfer's automation chair at TU Dresden on functionality and the interdisciplinary understanding of rationalization and automation took place.

Due to the development results presented by Ketting in this field, he became a member of an international working group for construction machinery / crawler tracks of the COMECON coordinated by the Institute for Construction Mechanization Dresden . But Ketting also worked on other areas of focus in construction machine technology. For example, special hydraulic solutions for compact loaders were created in cooperation with the Dresden University of Transport .

In 1986 he took over the position of deputy director for technology at the construction mechanization company . At the same time, from 1987 onwards, Ketting devoted himself to engineering research work at the Technical University of Zwickau on automation as well as on the production-ready, but at the same time stable, construction of crawler tracks, with the aim of obtaining a habilitation (B-doctorate for Dr.sc.techn.). However, as a result of the political change in Germany, he was unable to complete this fundamental work .

In 1989, Ketting moved to Intertractor AG in Gevelsberg , a leading international manufacturer of crawler tracks for construction machinery. There he was initially authorized signatory and head of construction / development and from 1995 to 2003 a member of the board .

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Ketting has reported on his research and development results in specialist lectures at major construction machinery companies around the world. As a result, he gained professional recognition in Europe and especially in the USA and Japan. In 1994, as a guest engineer at the renowned Nevada Automotive Test Center (NATC) in Carson City (USA), he carried out investigations into the development of strength-optimal tread contours for crawler tracks.

Due to his scientific achievements, Ketting was appointed lecturer in 1993 and honorary professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1999 .

Since 2000 he has been managing director (from 2007 scientific director) of the IBAF - Institute for Construction Machinery, Drive Systems and Conveyor Technology GmbH in Bochum (management since 2007: Jan Scholten , Frank Tintrup ). This institute was spun off from the former chair for machine elements and conveyor technology (head: Gerhard Wagner) of the Ruhr University in order to work on problem-oriented system solutions at a high engineering level with high practical relevance (so-called "Bochum model") for partners from different branches of industry.

From 2000 to 2012 Ketting was - in personal union - General Manager and from 2012 to 2015 Managing Director of IAMT - Ingenieurgesellschaft für Allgemeine Maschinentechnik mbH (Holding) in Weischlitz .

Merit and achievement

As one of the first engineers in the world, Ketting established crawler chassis technology for construction machinery as an engineering sub-discipline of construction machinery technology and gave the stagnating state of the art a significant boost through systematically developed constructive and manufacturing improvements. He initially dealt with the production-ready construction and the automated production / assembly of crawler tracks. His work on the hinge-compatible pressing of crawler chains can be described as particularly remarkable.

As part of his scientific work at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at the IBAF Institute, it is thanks to him that the crawler tracks are viewed as a “subsystem” of the construction machine. He derives the development and optimization of such machine structures preferably deductively from the relevant physical principles. In terms of practical implementation, his performance consists in placing the strength aspect in the foreground, with special consideration of dynamic loads from the interaction between machine and ground, for the design of crawler tracks and not - as is often the case - only taking into account wear-oriented design criteria. The realization of fundamentally new constructive solutions for crawler tracks for construction machines (assemblies / undercarriages), including the use of new materials (such as ceramics) and the associated drive hydraulics, should be emphasized.

The main focus of current research and development work is primarily the structural and drive-related further and new development of elastomer or rubber chassis - which are developed in close cooperation with Piotr Dudzinski from the Technical University of Wroclaw - as well as investigations into the system behavior of construction machine chassis (e.g. taking into account the Component damage) and the service life design of chassis components under abrasive wear conditions.

Ketting held or holds around 60 patents worldwide, including on numerous features of tracked chassis technology. It can refer to well over 250 research reports, publications and specialist lectures, including over 200 in the field of construction machinery and crawler chassis technology, some of which are in internationally recognized index journals. He is also co-author and editor of monographs, manuals, anthologies and conference volumes.

management

Michael Ketting (r) with Walter Masing at the reception for the ten year anniversary of IAMT mbH (2002)

Based on many years of experience in industrial management, Ketting works - in addition to his engineering activities in mechanical engineering - in the field of engineering and economic-cost-oriented company consulting. It pursues a related, strategically oriented management concept with the unity of product, process and quality management . In addition, he worked with Herbert Schnauber on a concept for "holistic company diagnostics" for companies in the construction machinery sector and with Walter Masing on questions of the historical development of quality management. Ketting is, together with Hans-Dieter Zollondz and Raimund Pfundtner , co-editor of the lexicon "Quality Management". He also worked for several years in research and teaching in the field of management / quality management in the business education department (head: Jürgen van Buer ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was also responsible for thinking about a potential scientific discipline "management education".

Bodies

Michael Ketting is a founding member, was President and has been Honorary President of the Expert Panel of Construction Equipment in Germany ( Münchener Kreis - Expert Panel of Construction Equipment e.V. ) since 2015 , an organization in which top managers in the construction machinery industry and university professors who scientifically specialize in construction machinery technology and related Subjects are represented, united.

Ketting is an elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin . He is, or was until his retirement, a member of other organizations, associations and institutions, e.g. B. Member of the industrial group of the Scientific Society for Product Development WiGeP ("Berliner Kreis" & WGMK), member of the International Society for Terrain Vehicle Systems (ISTVS / USA) and member of the Association of the Construction Industry, Environmental and Machine Technology (VDBUM), member of Advisory Committee of the specialist journal "Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering" of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the committee for the awarding of the advancement award of the Association of the Building Industry, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering and the jury for the award of the innovation award for pioneering developments in construction, building materials and mining machines as part of the world's largest construction machinery trade fair, bauma in Munich. In 2013 he was a member of the award commissions for the Euro test price of the professional association for the construction industry and the Wolfgang Beitz Award. Ketting is / was also a member of company advisory boards, e. B. until 2015 Chairman of the Advisory Board at Ruthmann GmbH & Co KG in Gescher .

Publications (selection)

  • with Christoph Pietzsch: Position measurement systems on industrial robots. Verlag Technik, Berlin 1986.
  • Collaboration in: Hans-Ludwig Wußing, Hans Dietrich, Walter Purkert, Dietrich Tutzke (Hrsg.): Fachlexikon abc researchers and inventors. Harri Deutsch Verlag, Thun; Frankfurt a. M. 1992, ISBN 3-8171-1258-0 .
  • Theoretical Principles to Optimize the Running Surface of Chain Links for Track Assemblies. Proceedings: 11th International Conference of the ISTVS, Sept. 22-30, 1993, Incline Village (USA), Volume I.
  • Ceramic Components in Tracks for Construction Equipment. Presentation of the 6th European ISTVS Conference, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 28-30, 1994, Proceedings Volume II, p. 673-695.
  • with P. Dudzinski: New generation of chassis for mobile work machines and vehicles. Conference: Problemy edukacyjne i badawcze wspolczesnej logistiki. Proceedings: No. 23, pp. 136-150, Wroclaw 1995.
  • with C. Pietzsch: Optimization of the Pressfit of Track Link and Pin / Bushing to Assure the Function of Tracks for Construction Machinery. Proceedings: 4th Asia-Pacific Conference of the ISTVS, Okinawa (Japan), Nov. 20-22, 1995, p. 263-270.
  • with P. Dudzinski, H. Hawrylak, G. Hohl (Eds.): Off-Road Machines and Vehicles in Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference Wroclaw, Poland, September 23-24, 1996. ISTVS-East European Office, Technical University Wroclaw, Wroclaw (Poland) 1996.
  • with G. Wagner (Ed.): Newer contributions to the development of the drive technology. Festschrift on the occasion of the scientific colloquium for the 65th birthday of Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Boettger. Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, series of publications by the Institute for Construction Technology, issue 98.1, Bochum 1998.
  • with Walter Masing , Wolfgang König , Karl-Friedrich Wessel (eds.): Quality management - tradition and future. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German Society for Quality e. V. Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-21601-4 .
  • with F. Tintrup, H. Halama, M. Woydt, J. Tomaschewski: Field Test of Tracked Chain Lubed by Solid Bonded Films (Solid Bonded Films in Tracked Chains of Construction Equipments). STLE (Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers) 58th Annual Meeting, New York, April 28 - May 1, 2003.
  • with Norbert Gebhardt, Holger Kühne, Jens Morgenstern: Fluid technology in motor vehicles. Springer, Heidelberg; Dordrecht; London; New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05483-9 .
  • Aspects of assuming responsibility in academic training. In: Karl-Friedrich Wessel and Andreas Wessel (eds.): Personality and responsibility in science, medicine and technology. Robert Ketting in memory. Berlin studies on the philosophy of science and human ontogenetics, vol. 30. Kleine Verlag, Grünwald 2013, pp. 77–117, ISBN 978-3-937461-57-1 .
  • with Thomas Diesner, Olaf Scupin, Andreas Wessel (eds.): Human ontogenetics - interdisciplinary theory and a bridge into practice. Logos, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8325-4240-5 .
  • with Hans-Dieter Zollondz, Raimund Pfundner (ed.): Lexicon quality management. Manual of modern management based on quality management. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Walter de Gruyter, Oldenbourg Verlag, Berlin / Boston; Munich 2016, 1312 pages, ISBN 978-3-486-58465-3 , e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-486-84520-4, e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-039808-3.

literature

  • European Biographical Directory®, Vol. 11 (1995-1997), Ed. RH Neirijnck 1997, p. 501-502.
  • VDBUM information vol. 28 (2000) 1, pp. 26-27.
  • Hans-Joachim Zander , Georg Bretthauer : Prof. Heinz Töpfer on his 80th birthday. In: Automation technology, Munich. Vol. 58, No. 7, 2010, pp. 413-415.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. Vol. LI 2013/14. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck, 2013, p. 553.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. Vol. LII 20115/16. Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck, 2015, p. 489.
  • Developments in construction machinery and conveyor technology. Münchener Kreis - Expert advice on construction machinery. Collection of specialist articles on the occasion of the 2015 symposium of the Munich Circle and the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Michael Ketting. Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute: Product and Service Engineering, Working Group Construction Machinery and Conveyor Technology Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Scholten, Series 15.1, Bochum March 2015, ISBN 3-89194-215-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Töpfer , Werner Kriesel : Functional units of automation technology - electric, pneumatic, hydraulic. Verlag Technik, Berlin and VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, 5th edition 1988, ISBN 3-341-00290-1 .
  2. ↑ Michael Ketting, Heinz Töpfer : Some aspects of rationalization and automation. Manufacturing technology and operation, Berlin 38 (1988) H. 5, pp. 303-305 and Heinz Töpfer, Michael Ketting: For further training of practical cadres in the field of automation technology. Mechanical engineering, Berlin 37 (1988) H. 1, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Poppy : Prof. Dr. Michael Ketting, the border crosser (laudation). In: Developments in construction machinery and conveyor technology. Münchener Kreis - Expert advice on construction machinery. Collection of specialist articles on the occasion of the 2015 symposium of the Munich Circle and the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Michael Ketting. Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute: Product and Service Engineering, Working Group Construction Machinery and Conveyor Technology Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Scholten , Series 15.1, Bochum March 2015, ISBN 3-89194-215-X , p. 2
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Poppy : Prof. Dr. Michael Ketting, the border crosser (laudation). In: Developments in construction machinery and conveyor technology. Münchener Kreis - Expert advice on construction machinery. Collection of specialist articles on the occasion of the 2015 symposium of the Munich Circle and the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Michael Ketting. Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute: Product and Service Engineering, Working Group Construction Machinery and Conveyor Technology Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Scholten , Series 15.1, Bochum March 2015, ISBN 3-89194-215-X , p. 3
  5. ↑ Michael Ketting, Jan Scholten: The Bochum model of construction machine technology. VDBUM-Information 34 (2006), H. 2, pp. 45-46.
  6. ↑ Michael Ketting: Evaluation of the component service life of large hydraulic excavators. Parts 1 and 2. VDBUM-Information 31 (2003), Issue 3, pp. 5–10 and Issue 4, pp. 5–11 as well as Michael Ketting: Wear part lifespan on construction machinery Hebezeuge und Fördermittel 44 (2004), no. 3, pp. 134-138.
  7. ↑ Herbert Schnauber , Joachim Zülch and Nikolaos Raptakis, Michael Ketting: Assess and win - With holistic company diagnostics and strategic action planning to excellence. QZ - Quality and Reliability 45 (2000), no. 6, pp. 738-743; see also: https://www.qz-online.de/qz-zeitschrift/archiv/artikel/mit-ganzheitlicher-unternehmensdiagnostik-und-strategischer-masshabenplanung-zu-exzellenz-bewerten-und-gewinnen-343201.html?search .highlight = Rate% 20 and win% 20
  8. ↑ Michael Ketting: History of Quality Management. In: Walter Masing (Hrsg.): Handbuch Qualitätmanagement. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 1999, 4th edition, pp. 17–30.
  9. ^ Walter Masing , Michael Ketting, Wolfgang König , Karl-Friedrich Wessel (eds.): Quality management - tradition and future. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German Society for Quality e. V. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-446-21601-4 .
  10. ↑ Münchener Kreis - Expert Panel of Construction Equipment http://www.muenchener-kreis.de/startseite.html
  11. ↑ Elsevier: Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Editorial Board http://www.journals.elsevier.com/archives-of-civil-and-mechanical-engineering/editorial-board/
personal data
SURNAME Ketting, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, professor and top manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengenfeld (Vogtland)