Lean Production Systems

Increasing cost pressure and the advancing globalization make it more and more difficult to ensure the competitiveness of manufacturing companies. In order to meet the growing challenges in the longer term, many companies are responding by implementing lean production systems (LPS). According to VDI Guideline 2870, which has been regarded as an industry standard since 2012 at the latest, LPS can be described as „a company-specific, methodical set of rules for the continuous alignment of all company processes with the customer“. LPS always pursues the goal of systematically and continuously avoiding non-value-adding activities and aligning all business processes with the customer. In contrast to the lean production approach, which was largely based on the success of the Toyota production system, the novelty of integrated production systems lies in the integration of efficiency-enhancing methods and tools, best practices from conventional mass production and approaches to humanizing work.

Our goal is to provide all members of an organization with concepts for the continuous improvement of business processes by consistently considering the three sub-areas of people, organization and technology.

In this way, the entire company unit, starting with the company goals and the orientation towards the customer, is to be further developed into a Lean Enterprise. Starting from LPS, the entire product development process (from Lean Development to Lean Sales and Service) with the management processes (Lean Leadership) and the support processes (Lean Administration) must be streamlined and coordinated. In order to achieve the goal of a holistically coordinated value-added unit, new trends are pursued in particular in addition to classic approaches to process optimization, such as value stream analysis and design. For example, the technological possibilities and advantages of digital networking in the context of industry 4.0 are seen as a decisive further development of LPS.