Research Project "Lean"

With the research project LEAN Implementation, which was completed in 2008, Freek also demonstrated how simple heating elements could be successfully manufactured in a high-tech country such as Germany [9]. The particular challenge of this process lay in the simultaneous optimisation of two apparently conflicting objectives: cost-cutting standardisation and market-oriented flexibility. The solutions we developed were included in an integrated business model, the implementation and application of which subsequently afforded Freek a second, long-lasting growth cycle .

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