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Process Confirmation Standard for Kaizen at BMW Dingolfing—Part 1

Christoph Roser December 9, 2025

Continuous improvement in lean works through work standards. Improving the standards improves your processes. However, all of this is for naught if the standard is not followed. In this series of blog posts I will look in more detail at how the BMW Group Dingolfing plant (a company on par with Toyota in terms of efficiency) does process confirmation on the shop floor. And, maybe even more important, how they drive the whole improvement process through the front-line workers on the shop floor using this process confirmation.

A Visit to the Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim—Part 3

Christoph Roser December 2, 2025

In this third and last post on the Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim, I will look in great detail at their digital dashboards as well as their excellent blue collar–driven continuous improvement process. I believe that true excellence can be achieved only through fast front-line improvement driven by the operators, and Fendt in Asbach-Bäumenheim is a good example of where it worked. As shown in my previous post, this plant has an outstanding performance, and the improvement system is the key driver for that. Read on!

A Visit to the Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim—Part 2

Christoph Roser November 25, 2025

This is my second post on the excellent Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim, which impressed me a lot with their efficiency and general organization. In my last post, I looked at the plant and the line in general. In this post I will go deeper into the topic of efficiency, line balancing, and shop floor management. My last post will then look into their good digital dashboard as well as their blue collar–driven continuous improvement process. Read on!

A Visit to the Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim—Part 1

Christoph Roser November 18, 2025

Recently, I had the chance to visit the Fendt Cabin Plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim (between Stuttgart and Munich) thanks to an invite from Tarik Kadrispahić from Targer Consulting (Thank you, Tarik!). I’d previously had the chance to see their main plant in Marktoberdorf, and I liked it a lot. Hence, I entered their plant in Asbach-Bäumenheim with high expectations. And Fendt did not disappoint! In this first blog post of this series, I will look at the plant in general, and the details of the assembly line.

AllAboutLean.com Website Relaunch

Christoph Roser November 11, 2025

If you are a regular visitor on my site, you may have noticed that it looks a bit different. Yes, we did a major restructuring of the website and a website relaunch. Most importantly, the blog with over 640 blog posts is still there, and also right there on the front page. But we did significantly expand the additional offerings around the blog.

As mentioned in the last birthday post, the growing demand for consulting and training support inspired Jochen and me to start a lean consulting and training company. We now offer these services directly through our blog. Hence, this blog post is about the changes in the website and the new offers in training, consulting, coaching, and more.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 3: Additional Quality Control Tools

Christoph Roser November 4, 2025

In my last two posts, I talked a lot about the free Analysis Platform application, used by Denso and others to dig deeper into big data to understand what exaltiert is happening on your shop floor. I showed you the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). But beyond these seven tools, there are a few more included in the application, which I also would like to show you briefly here.

And, on top of that, I will also briefly show you Seven New Quality Control Tools that are not really part of the application, but aim to dig deeper into problems that are hard to quantify, and many of these tools are more based on relations than on data.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 2: The Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools

Christoph Roser October 28, 2025

In my last post, I started to talk about the free Analysis Platform application used by Denso and others (especially in Japan) to tackle big data. In this post I will go into much more detail on what Denso calls the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7). These data analysis tools go way beyond the usual things you can do in Excel, and are designed to tackle big data analysis for industry 4.0. Beyond that, this application also includes more tools, which I will also show briefly in my next post.

Denso’s Way to Visualize BIG Data 1: The Analysis Platform Application

Christoph Roser October 21, 2025

A lot of problem solving is about understanding the current situation. Ideally this includes data. There are a couple of ways to analyze data. Denso uses seven traditional ways of analyzing data, which you are all familiar with. However, they expanded these tools with the goal to analyze big data. They call it the Digital Native Seven Quality Control Tools (DN7 or DN7QC7) …and of course I will share this with you. Even better, there is a freely available tool “Analysis Platform” that does these analyses for you (albeit it is not that easy to use).

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