Dr. Bárbara Ros Almela

- Variable and Fix Costs Deviations reviews, focusing on the Industrial Plan savings achievement - Internal Fix costs benchmarking - Budget - SAP - KPIs definition and calculation - SKU Analises - Competitive benchmarking - Quality assurance programme: Quality Frame (marketing and quality)

- Raw materials consumption strategies - costs reduction - New glass compositions - Excel-based tool for glass recipes calculation - Raw materials quality standards (RMS) - 8+1 plants daily business problems solving - With the purchasing department: selection of the key materials and participation in technical negotiations - Competitive benchmarking - Networking - Technology and Intellectual Property watching - SOPs writting and people training

- Evaluación del potencial tecnológico de tecnologías innovadoras.Desarrollo de ofertas tecnológicas - Vigilancia tecnológica y protección . Análisis de Patentabilidad y Estudios de libertad de operación - Transferencia al sector industrial. Análisis de mercado y Búsqueda de socios para proyectos de transferencia. Estudios de oportunidad de explotación comercial - Búsqueda de financiación a través de proyectos del Plan Nacional de Innovación y Proyectos Europeos

- Coordinated the research and development of new products applying the development of mathematical models (using DOE) optimizing costs, resources and time. - Collaborating in a project with the Stazione Sperimentale del Vetro - Supervision of new products industrialization working together with machinery and raw materials suppliers - Technology transfer projects: Electric Melting Furnace (≈1M€) or glazes production with paper technology - Competitive Technological Benchmarking

• Developed new ceramic frits and glazes compositions in complete collaboration with the Technical Assistance to satisfy the market and customers demands and performed lab testing • Cooperated in the implementation of the ISO 9001 and with the subsequent monitoring in the department • Participated in International Projects for clients of other group branches in process reengineering and products development

• Improved the definition of the quality standards and the internal specifications of the raw materials used in the daily production • Performed of the complete physical and chemical characterization of all raw materials used in the daily production • Executed quality control and chemical and mineralogical characterization by XRD, XRF, SEM and particle size analysis of raw materials as well as of in-process and finished products

Forces of changing in the Global Economy related to Marketing, Operations, Finanace, Economy, Strategy and Entreprenership

Corporate Finance, Business Valuation in Practice, M&A, Investments: Assets and Strategies, Fixed Income, Alternative investments, Balance Scorecard y Negociación

Tesis: Studio sistematico di Vetriceramici utilizzabili in Smalti da gres porcellanato Estudio basado en el uso de la herramienta estadística DOE aplicado al desarrollo de nuevas composiciones de fritas cerámicas