Dennis Sandig, Product Owner and Application Manager at MAPAL in Aalen
Technical progress is being driven forward at MAPAL not only in the machining world itself - but also in the area of digitalization. But what does that mean in concrete terms? Dennis Sandig, who has been with the company since 2018, reports on his IT projects at MAPAL.
“For our customers, we sometimes design special tools that are really absolutely unique in their shape - manufactured for a very special purpose for a very specific business partner. There, for example, we provide technological support with variant configurations and digital processes”, explains Dennis Sandig. The business informatics graduate employed as an application manager at MAPAL currently holds the role of product owner in a Commerce Cloud project. But he is also involved in other current digitization projects at MAPAL - and therefore knows the goals and challenges well.
And there are quite a few of them at MAPAL: The extensive product portfolio means that - just as with the tools - a standard solution would not be enough. “There is the 'normal drill', but there are also high-tech special tools that move the cutting edge into its end position, for example by means of pressure or centrifugal forces; it is simply unbelievable what we produce and in which applications our products are used,” says Dennis Sandig. The digitization projects at MAPAL are correspondingly broadly diversified and with different demands.
会社のすべての分野に関与
望まれる広く深い知識
国際的なチームの結束力
同僚やサービスプロバイダーで構成される多様なチームは、アーレンのマパール本社だけでなく、ブレーメン、モロッコ、スペイン、さらに遠く離れた場所でも活動しています。そのため、開発チームにおけるプロジェクトの公式言語は英語となります。デニス・サンディグ氏は、「開発言語は常に英語で、ドイツ語のJavaコードを読む必要はない」という理由で、自分の視点から多くのことをより具体的に表現できることが利点であると考えています。
デジタル化の真っ只中
マパールのコアビジネスである機械加工の世界だけでなく、デジタル化の世界でも技術的進歩が進んでいます。