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Dr.-Ing. Florian Bross

Managing Partner

Dr.-Ing. Florian Bross, Managing Partner bei Bross Consulting

Dr.-Ing. Florian Bross is Managing Partner of Bross Consulting GmbH and, since 2019, responsible for factory and logistics planning projects in mechanical engineering, aviation and maintenance. He studied industrial engineering at RWTH Aachen University and in a double-degree programme at Tsinghua University. Before founding Bross Consulting, he worked in factory and production planning at ifp consulting. He earned his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich on dimensioning indirect areas based on imprecise planning data and now teaches at Munich University of Applied Sciences and OTH Regensburg.

Focus areas

  • Factory and plant structure planning
  • Production planning
  • Logistics planning
  • Project management in planning and implementation projects

More than 10 years of project experience.

Role in a project

Florian Bross contributes expertise in Factory and plant structure planning, Production planning, Logistics planning, Project management in planning and implementation projects. Industry experience includes Mechanical engineering, Aviation and MRO, Automotive, Electronics. The responsibilities in a specific assignment depend on the project phase, the decision to be made and the composition of the customer's team. The profile therefore describes technical experience and areas of responsibility rather than a fixed service package.

At the start of a project, Florian Bross helps the project team clarify the objective, system boundary, available data and expected outputs. Information is then structured, assumptions are documented and alternatives or measures are prepared so that the participating departments can review them. In factory and logistics projects, this often means connecting processes, volumes, space, technology and organisation.

In consulting assignments, Florian Bross brings different technical perspectives together. Production, logistics, building planning, IT, occupational safety and management need a common basis for decisions, even though their priorities and required level of detail differ. Results are therefore not only calculated or drawn; their constraints, risks and open points are explained transparently.

The profile of Florian Bross helps you assess whether the technical focus matches your assignment. For a specific project enquiry, it is useful to mention the affected site, the upcoming decision, the intended timeframe and any documents already available. The contact page routes your enquiry to further suitable specialists in the team where required.

For Florian Bross, the required level of detail follows the project phase and the focus on Factory and plant structure planning, Production planning, Logistics planning, Project management in planning and implementation projects. Early strategy and concept work for Mechanical engineering, Aviation and MRO, Automotive, Electronics concentrates on transparent assumptions, alternatives and decision criteria; detail planning makes dimensions, interfaces, responsibilities and implementation sequences more specific. This keeps the work usable when further internal or external parties join the project.

Florian Bross reviews interim results with the responsible specialists throughout the assignment, particularly where Factory and plant structure planning, Production planning, Logistics planning, Project management in planning and implementation projects meets the operating reality of Mechanical engineering, Aviation and MRO, Automotive, Electronics. This brings constraints, data gaps and required approvals into the planning early and reduces the risk of a mathematically plausible alternative overlooking practical processes or undocumented dependencies.

Industry experience

Education

Academic background

RoleInstitutionPeriod
Intralogistics and distribution logisticsHochschule Münchensince September 2024
Digital factory planningOTH Regensburgsince September 2024

Doctorate

Dimensionierung indirekter Bereiche auf Basis unscharfer Daten
Doctoral thesis, Technical University of Munich, 2020, utzverlag GmbH, ISBN 978-3-8316-4854-2

The thesis develops a method for estimating the space and staffing requirements of indirect areas early in the planning phase, when no reliable data is yet available. This methodology also underpins the space-requirement calculations in Bross Consulting's factory planning projects.

Publications

Chronological, most recent first, DOI linked.

  1. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Wunderlich J., Götz T., Bross F., Schmidtner M., Schuster J. (2025): Process Simulation as a Basis for Process Mining in Intralogistics. IEEE ICE/ITMC, Valencia, S. 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC65658.2025.11106590
  2. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Huttner L., Bross F., Hawer S. (2025): Procedure for creating a digital factory model in brown-field planning. Logistics Journal: Peer-Reviewed. https://doi.org/10.2195/lj_Rev_huttner_en_2025
  3. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Götz T., Bross F., Wunderlich J. (2024): Prozessoptimierung in der Logistik mittels Process Mining. Landshuter Arbeitsberichte zur Wirtschaftsinformatik. https://doi.org/10.57688/434
  4. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Bross F., Götz T., Wunderlich J. (2024): Process Mining in der Intralogistik. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 119(10), 754–760. https://doi.org/10.1515/zwf-2024-1131
  5. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Riks R., Bross F., Wunderlich J. (2022): Materialflussoptimierung mittels Digitalen Zwillings. Landshuter Arbeitsberichte zur Wirtschaftsinformatik. https://doi.org/10.57688/344
  6. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Follath A., Bross F., Galka S. (2022): Vorgehensmodell zur Erstellung Digitaler Zwillinge für Produktion und Logistik. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 117(10), 691–696. https://doi.org/10.1515/zwf-2022-1127
  7. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Bross F. (2020): Dimensionierung indirekter Bereiche auf Basis unscharfer Daten. Dissertation, TU München. ISBN 978-3-8316-4854-2
  8. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Bross F., Nadj M., Michaeli P., Reinhart G. (2019): Dimensionierung der Werksgröße mittels Methoden der Digitalen Fabrik. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 114(11), 697–701. https://doi.org/10.3139/104.112176
  9. Publication featuring Florian Bross: Bross F., Bräu V., Reinhart G. (2017): Dimensionierung indirekter Bereiche in der Fabrikplanung. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 112(6), 359–363. https://doi.org/10.3139/104.111741

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