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Metal materials – and the man who knows all about them By Heribert Klein | Photos Claudia Kempf TK Magazine | 1 | 2004 | MATERIALS SELECTION 79 Jochen Adams has an important role at ThyssenKrupp Schulte: he is known as the inventor of a materials selection program – the ideal database for customers to find the right material in the shortest possible time Jochen Adams does not leave the slightest doubt as to what he does, or what exact functions he performs. According to his business card, he is “Head of Central Technical Sales/Quality Management” at ThyssenKrupp Schulte, one of the companies in the ThyssenKrupp Services group. The title sounds more unwieldy than Adams appears, for this title conceals a man whose entire professional life has been molded by his expertise, interest and passion for metallic materials. “There is a lot to do here,” he says, sitting in his office, which is filled to overflowing with records, papers and files. He thinks of thousands of questions that lead to further questions on every topic in materials science. This company officer with statutory authority named Adams appears to be a walking encyclopedia, a person who knows quite well how to use a computer, but equally adheres steadfastly to the principle: “You have to read a lot in order to know where to find something.” This is all done in the interests of being a service provider for ThyssenKrupp Schulte’s branches in all questions pertaining to metallic materials. A DATABASE IS INITIALLY CREATED IN THE HEAD Adams, who holds a degree in engineering, is the “inventor” and operator of a practice-oriented materials selection program. This involves a database that meantime appears to have attained gigantic proportions, based on which Adams can provide each customer with the type of steel which fits his or her requirements exactly. “We have taken every type of steel and analyzed its properties. However, the tolerance limits of a norm were not the decisive factor for us, but rather the realistic data from our calculations. In this respect we have results that we can pass on to our customers that really have been measured.” He prides himself in the fact that he knows what he is talking about when he gives advice. Originally, he is a metallographer. He began working at Thyssen Röhrenwerke in 1967, moving to the heavy plate mill in south Duisburg in the area of quality control in 1970. “You have to have a lot of luck in your life to achieve success,” he emphasizes. To name just one example, the fact that he discovered a pile of test result sheets for various steels in which no one barring himself appeared to be interested in the
80 MATERIALS SELECTION Sights set on the customer Jochen Adams has analyzed and then stored on a computer database the characteristics of every steel. This data is invaluable to the customers who purchase it.
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