Dr. Wilderich Heising is a Partner and Associate Director at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He is a core member of BCG's Innovation Center for Operations and very active in BCG's Health Care, Industrial Goods and Consumer Products practice areas. His focus at BCG is on advanced manufacturing topics such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing, digitalization, the factory of the future, Industry 4.0 as well as on manufacturing strategy and network optimization. He leads the additive manufacturing topic for BCG globally. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.