https://www.allaboutlean.com Organize your Industry! Wed, 29 May 2024 05:39:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.allaboutlean.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-Brain-512px-2-150x150.png https://www.allaboutlean.com 32 32 56866218 https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-berlin/ https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-berlin/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:00:03 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32907 The last plant of BMW I visited in Germany was in Spandau, Berlin. This was different from BMW Munich and Leipzig. For one, it makes motorbikes, not cars. But its performance was also not as stellar as the best of (German) benchmark plants Leipzig and Munich. But despite some issues, it still performed on an ... Read more

The post The Grand Tour of German Automotive—BMW Berlin Motorbikes first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.]]> https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-berlin/feed/ 0 32907 https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-leipzig/ https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-leipzig/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:00:03 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32906 The second BMW plant I visited was in Leipzig. This modern greenfield plant had a very good material flow, where especially the finger line impressed me a lot. In terms of efficiency it was the best-performing plant in Germany, shortly after Munich, and on par with Toyota. It was also exceptionally clean. The only flaw ... Read more

The post The Grand Tour of German Automotive—BMW Leipzig first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.]]> https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-leipzig/feed/ 3 32906 https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-munich/ https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-munich/#comments Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:00:33 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32609 The Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or short BMW, is a maker of luxury vehicles, sport cars, and motorcycles. As part of my Grand Tour of German Automotive I visited their plants in Munich and Leipzig, and was quite impressed. In my view, it these are the best-performing automotive plants in Germany, and close to the ... Read more

The post The Grand Tour of German Automotive—BMW Munich first appeared on AllAboutLean.com.]]> https://www.allaboutlean.com/grand-tour-german-automotive-bmw-munich/feed/ 1 32609 https://www.allaboutlean.com/bmw-finger-line/ https://www.allaboutlean.com/bmw-finger-line/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:00:56 +0000 https://www.allaboutlean.com/?p=32690 As part of my grand tour of German automotive, I visited the BMW plant in Leipzig. As of now, this is my second most favorite German automotive plant, after BMW in Munich. I will talk more about this quite well-organized and indeed beautiful plant in a later post series, but in this post I’m going ... Read more

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