Reference projects

SUCCESSFUL LEAN TRANSFORMATION

CURRENT REAL-LIFE CASE STUDIES

Inside every company, there is a better one. These case studies are an illustration of how Staufen can help you find that better company. Learn more about the challenges and obstacles other companies have confronted — and how Staufen helped them overcome them.

Discover what is possible with lean-transformation instruments, and allow yourself to be inspired about what your own company can achieve.

IDEAL Fensterbau Weinstock

This success story is about a holistic transformation of IDEAL Fensterbau Weinstock – a medium-sized, owner-managed company in the process industry. In this context, the company was examined and accompanied by Staufen in terms of strategy, processes and day-to-day management. To this end, an interdisciplinary or multifunctional project approach forms the basis for generating a comprehensive understanding of the company in order to identify and implement the right levers with the greatest potential for improvement. This success story describes how excellent results can be achieved through holistic transformation by establishing excellent processes and excellent leadership.

Freudenberg

Without Freudenberg, the air in indoor rooms would not be as pure, cars would not drive and wounds would not heal as quickly. And these are only three examples illustrating thousands of applications.

KME

A combination of digital and proven analog lean analysis was used to develop a new factory layout at copper manufacturer KME.

Centravis

The collapse of oil prices at the end of 2014 had very negative repercussions on the level of sales of Centravis worldwide (33 %). Due to the important investments realized to modernize the production facility from 2006 to 2009 and the high amount of debt accordingly, the company found itself in a difficult negative cash flow situation.

Punker

Punker GmbH has been producing fan wheels of all sizes in steel and aluminum in northern Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic Sea since 1954. The company generates a turnover of €43 million. Its approximately 1,000 customers come from a variety of different sectors – from air conditioning and household appliance to railway technology industries. The number of variants is correspondingly high and the batch sizes vary just as much.

Barberini

The Italian management contracted Staufen AG as an experienced consultant in the manufacturing industry. Staufen was asked to take a close look at the company as a whole, identify the reasons why it was in such economic crisis and draw up a business plan to successfully re-align the company.

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COMPANIES WE HAVE HELPED SO FAR

HERE YOU CAN FIND A SELECTION OF OUR CLIENTS

Even after the successful completion of the project, we have remained in close contact with many of them. Some are also Staufen’s BestPractice partners.

Our services

Leadership, Organizational & Personnel Development

All of the services we offer have a clear objective: we enable managers and employees to successfully implement a sustainable culture of change at their company, which allows them to achieve peak performance. For this to happen, it is important to start at the very top. Every successful transformation involves jointly developing process-related and leadership competence as well as holistic approaches to thinking and acting. Our consultants work with you to make sure that your operating results and cashflow undergo changes for the better on a long-term basis.

Digitalization & Industry 4.0

Intelligent Industry 4.0 production processes can be applied to accomplish a variety of objectives. These include achieving greater productivity and efficiency, fulfilling consumer specifications faster and more expediently, and developing brand-new industrial products and business models. Small and mid-sized companies often have a particular need for this kind of consulting and guidance.

Performance Improvement & Restructuring

Companies face special challenges when confronted with crisis situations such as an upcoming restructuring or reorganization. These phases are often defined by stressful in-house discussions about the potential causes of the crisis, a lack of clarity about the necessary countermeasures, insecurity about future perspectives, and critical conversations with banks and investors about further economic development and financing. In times such as these, expedient and rapid decisions and consistent actions are needed. Within the shortest time possible, our consultants provide comprehensive transparency by performing a technically solid and objective assessment of your baseline situation.

Supply Chain Network Management

We are thoroughly knowledgeable about the supply-chain matrix and have a solid command of every level of its requirements. We support you in optimizing your supply-chain processes, structures and networks, and in doing so we always focus on achieving the ideal output for the entire process. By initially focusing on fast and sustainable successes in pilot areas, we create a momentum towards change that optimizes the entire process.

Operations Management

There is hardly any other corporate function in which employees can be taught the role of added value and waste as practically and quickly as in production. Optimization is used as the basis for helping Lean philosophy permeate the entire production process, and from there it affects the whole company.