
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.
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ZF Friedrichshafen
Automotive supplier ZF is one of the world’s leading technology groups in the fields of driveline and chassis technology as well as active and passive safety technology. Around 153,000 employees are spread across more than 260 sites in 42 countries.
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Tenda
Tenda was founded in 1969, with the objective of providing affordable housing in order that an increasing number of families could own their first home, and today it is the second largest construction and real estate development company in Brazil, according to the ‘INTEC’ ranking – Construction Sector Technical Information.
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KME
A combination of digital and proven analog lean analysis was used to develop a new factory layout at copper manufacturer KME.
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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.
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Kreissparkasse Göppingen
Balance sheet and employees suffer under market pressure Like the whole industry, Kreissparkasse Goeppingen was under considerable pressure in 2015. The prolonged period of low interest rates had a negative effect on revenues. Regulations (increasing in response to the most recent financial crisis) as well as a high level of product and system complexity, tied…
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Aerzener Maschinenfabrik
This family-owned business with over 2,000 employees is one of the world’s leading companies in the field. After fifteen years of substantial international growth, however, its management no longer felt prepared for the future. The increasing complexity in processing orders created massive problems in areas such as honoring delivery dates. Some fundamental changes had to…
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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.