Comments on: The Grand Tour of German Automotive—Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen

By: Christoph Roser

Christoph Roser — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:49:20 +0000

Hi Steve, I also consulted at Daimler in the early 2000’s, albeit only sometimes on the shop floor. Hence, thanks for your add-ons. It seems the performance degraded a bit over the last 20 years (maybe complicated by cars getting more complex and hence having more bugs?).

By: Steve Milner

Steve Milner — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:01:56 +0000

I worked with Daimler at the end of the last century. A colleague and I focused solely on Bau38 initially under the KVP banner, and then introduced wider-scope genba kanri …which they were then going to incorporate into their (then) developing ‘Daimler Chrysler Production System’.
At the start of our activities the off-line repair stations were overflowing: there was a vicious circle as if a car was off-lined it further upset the sequence – the ‘string of pearls’ as they called it – and made it more likely that subsequent vehicles wouldn’t be completed. When we’d finished, the repair people had very little work. I cannot speak with data, but would estimate that ‘right first time’ was mid~high nineties. ‘Null Fehler Tors’ were introduced in Paint too to good effect.
I cannot recall what VA:non-VA time might have been.
I’m disappointed at your observations.

By: Christoph Roser

Christoph Roser — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:46:13 +0000

Hello Jean-Pierre, thanks for the suggestion.I think that is correct, and amended the blog post accordingly, with credits to you 🙂

By: Jean-Pierre Goulet

Jean-Pierre Goulet — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:01:57 +0000

May be “ GAL (which stands for GeradeAusLauf” can be traduced in English by “First Pass Yield”!

By: Ian Hardy

Ian Hardy — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:19:50 +0000

I Worked in Singelfingen in 2003/2004 and Bremen in 2005 on a Standard Montage Projects.