Simon Winterberg

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research associate

www.zhaw.ch/ipp

Expertise and research interests

Engineering in aviation:
- Optimization EMS components (Emergency Medical Systems) for rescue helicopters.
- Certification audit (GE-Cleanliness)
- Process management gear manufacturing in aerospace environment (Group Safran)
- Series introduction (PPAP) of gear wheels in the aerospace environment (Pratt & Whitney)
- Development of various aircraft interior components and galleys for various platforms and customers

Product development:
- Sustainable product development according to circular economy (bicycle helmet, hand protection made of mycelium, bio plastic, flax laminate)
- Development of various gear test rigs (spur gear, worm gear, mechanical and electrical clamping) for plastic and metal gears
- Conceptual design of a new, modular and "connected (IoT)" galley for the ICE board restaurant (DB)
- Complete development of an innovative refreshing and drying cabinet (VZUG)
- Div. developments in house/air conditioning technology (modular measuring devices, modular actuator drives, optimizations)

Educational background

2015 - 2016 CAS in Business Innovation with specialization in Research and Development (Kalaidos FH/SwissMEM)
2009 - 2011 MSc ETH in Mechanical Engineering
HS 2009 Erasmus at LTH Technical University in Lund (Sweden)
2004 - 2009 BSc ETH in Mechanical Engineering Sciences

Professional milestones

2019 - today Institute of Product Development and Production Technologies IPP (ZHAW)
- Research associate
2017 - 2018 P3 Group AG
- Project leadership and project management of various projects in aviation, railroad and machine engineering
2014 - 2016 Sauter Bachmann AG (as external)
- Project management for the series implementation of aviation gear parts
2011 - 2017 phi Engineering Services AG
- Project management of various projects in aviation, automotive, machine engineering, white goods.

Membership of networks

LinkedIn

Projects

• Automated visual inspection of a life-supporting blood pump / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Optimisation of the tooth root geometry of plastic gears / Team member / Project ongoing
• Vertiefung des Know-how-Aufbaus im Zusammenhang mit der Verwendung nachhaltiger Materialien als Ersatz fossil basierter Materialien in der Produktentwicklung / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Additive Manufactured Gears of Case-Hardened Steel / Team member / Project ongoing
• Automated Composite Compression-Zahnrad / Team member / Project completed
• Entwicklung eines automatischen Druckluftventils für Pharmaanwendungen / Project leader / Project completed
• Messsystem - Kräfteverteilung in Planetengetriebe / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Kyburz stress test rear suspension / Project leader / Project completed
• Certification of grease for Flex Shaft / Project leader / Project completed
• Konfigurator für maschinell gefertigte Federn / Team member / Project completed
• Chassis Prüfung Dauertest / Team member / Project completed
• Vision-Control-Systeme für PO&QS / Team member / Project completed
• SLM gears: Function- and weight-optimized gears produced using the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Dennig, Hans-Jörg; Zumofen, Livia; Stierli, Daniel; Kirchheim, Andreas; Winterberg, Simon,

  2021.

  Increasing the safety against scuffing of additive manufactured gear wheels by internal cooling channels.

  Forschung im Ingenieurwesen.

  86(3), pp. 595-604.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-021-00515-5

• Dennig, Hans-Jörg; Winterberg, Simon,

  2019.

  Test stand for internally cooled metal gears [poster].

  In:

  International Conference on Gears 2019, 3rd International Conference on High Performance Plastic Gears 2019, 3rd International Conference on Gear Production 2019 : Garching/Munich, Germany September 18-20, 2019.

  3rd International Conference on High Performance Plastic Gears, Munich, Germany, 18-19 September 2019.

  Düsseldorf:

  VDI-Verlag.

  pp. 1263-1265.

  VDI-Berichte ; 2355.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18361

• Kirchheim, Andreas; Dennig, Hans-Jörg; Winterberg, Simon; Zumofen, Livia; Waldburger, Michael Christoph; Stieri, Daniel,

  2019.

  Funktions-und gewichtsoptimierte Zahnräder : additiv durch selektives Laserschmelzen hergestellt.

  In:

  AM Network Tagung: Additive Fertigung in Forschung und Praxis, Zürich, 24. Oktober 2019.

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