Henning joined Audi in 2004, starting in the area of car development superstructure and changed later on into production development. He has been a member of senior management since 2012. Since November 2014 Henning has worked on Audi’s future vision of the Smart Factory and is the head of the Audi Production-Lab as of January 2016. In the P-Lab he and his team work on the Smart Factory, developing new technologies and production concepts by trying them out and evaluating them in a real production environment. Henning is member of two fields of action of the Audi production strategy: “Innovation” and “Digital Production” and therefore at the center of the definition and development of the Smart Factory. He has given several Keynotes on the subject of the Audi Smart Factory.