Project Management

MAHLE Powertrain works in close collaboration with its customers to ensure that projects are managed effectively and efficiently. We adjust and adapt our processes and procedures to fall in line with customer protocols, reporting and tracking systems and documentation requirements to meet all the specified needs and demands.

MAHLE Powertrain has a wealth of experience in the definition, planning, monitoring and delivery of a diverse range of projects ranging from single-discipline, single-phase, short-term tasks to multi-phase, long-term projects. Our project team personnel are managed using a matrix structure, with engineers reporting to a Project Manager on day-to-day project matters and also to their departmental managers for technical support and guidance.

Advanced product Quality Planning (APQP) procedures and philosophies are employed for:

• Project definition
• Project kick off
• Project delivering/tracking, including timing, financial and technical controls
• Gateway process
• Project reporting
• Project work scope change control
• Project close out
• Customer feedback

We work closely with our customers to define a detailed product specification to ensure that all attributes of the powertrain being developed are clearly understood by the whole project team. The latest product development software is used to collate timing plans with planned resources, facilities and external costs in order to provide current and forecasted resource and facility requirements to Department Managers for resource planning purposes.

MAHLE Powertrain has created a comprehensive Design Verification Plan (DVP) based on many years experience of undertaking a wide range of engine programmes. The DVP is tailored to reflect the change content and application of any customer programme.

Our systems and procedures are frequently audited to ensure that compliance to the latest standards is maintained for the benefit of all out customers.


The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) business philosophy is used to:

• Manage Computer Aided Design (CAD) and non-CAD data in a Product Data Management (PDM) system
• Track the implementation of design changes identified during the course of the design verification plan
• Monitor all activities to ensure that timescales and budgets are maintained
• Provide the right information at the right time, in the right format
• Enable full collaboration and co-operation with customers and suppliers
• Integrate all of MAHLE Powertrain's business systems to eliminate waste and duplication