Career
Kosanke obtained his Engineering degree from the Physikalisch Technische Lehranstalt in Lubeck, Germany, nowadays the Private Berufsfachschule PTL Wedel. He started his career in research and development at International Business Machines Corporation Deutschland in Böblingen working on the instrument development of optical printers and large-scale displays. In the 4 years at International Business Machines Corporation United States of America he worked on production control, material logistics, and back in Germany focussed on manufacturing research and simulation.
In 1984 Kosanke started participating in the ESPRIT AMICE project as International Business Machines Corporation Deutschland representative, focussing on enterprise modelling and the Chartered Institute of Marketinng Open Systems Architecture.
After International Business Machines Corporation retirement Kosanke kept working as independent consultant, directed the AMICE project of the AMICE Consortium, and became Director of the CIMOSA Association. Kosanke took part in the IFIP The International Federation of Automatic Control Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration, and contributed to the development of GERAM.
