Our Lean Expertise
Throughout our careers, we’ve built an extensive foundation of Lean expertise across diverse industries and prestigious organizations. We have worked in top-tier organizations like Toyota Research Labs in cutting-edge Lean development, McKinsey industry consulting, and Bosch platform product development. Additionally giving lectures at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, blending practical application with academic rigor.
- Over 20 years of experience
- Over 200 consulting projects
- Over 600 blog articles
- Over 12 years of lecturing
- #1 Lean Manufacturing blog
All of this demonstrates our capabilities, but what truly counts are facts, not just claims. Don’t just take our word for it—go to Gemba and see the proof of our experience in the documents below. You’ll find awards, client feedback, and selected blog articles covering nearly every Lean topic.
What topic do you want to dive into?
Our Blog Awards
We are the #1!
Lean Manufacturing Blog
Feedspot: Number 1 in the Top 30 Lean Manufacturing Blogs & News Websites in 2025
Feedspot looked at “the Best Lean Manufacturing Blogs from thousands of Lean Manufacturing blogs on the web using search and social metrics“, and AllAboutLean.com made the 1st Place amongst the top 30! Have a look at the entire list, there are a lot of great names and great blogs there.
We are the #1!
Operational Excellence Blog
BTOES Insights: Number 1 in the Top 10 Operational Excellence Blogs
The people from BTOES Insights made a survey among their readers for the best blogs on operational excellence. Out of over 100 blogs AllAboutLean.com made it not only into their lists of Top 10 OpEx Blogs, but we are the Number 1 Blog according to the preference of their readers ! Many thanks to BTOES insight for the honors!
Our Lean Trainings
Teaching theory and still having fun—that’s what makes for good training. Did we succeed? Ask the participants.
Pull Production
Have a look at our All About Pull Production Book. Awarded with the Shingo Publication Award, some say it’s the bible of pull production, translated and available in 9 languages. That alone should be proof enough. However, feel free to check out some of our posts on pull production:
Bottleneck detection
It’s all about detecting the real bottlenecks. Don’t be fooled, do the Bottleneck Walk!
- Common Bottleneck Detection Methods that do NOT work!
- The Bottleneck Walk – Practical Bottleneck Detection Part 1
- Bottleneck Management Part 1 – Introduction and Utilization
- Can you tell your Bottleneck from your Inventory?
- Mathematically Accurate Bottleneck Detection 1 – The Average Active Period Method
Benchmarking
We have seen and evaluated many plants already. Although we don’t always write a blog article about them, we’ve still covered quite a few!
- The Grand Tour of German Automotive—Overview (Part 1 of 16!)
- The Van of Nerds Tour in France (Part 1 of 5)
- Industry 4.0 Tour in Germany – A Van Full of Nerds (Part 1 of 6)
- The Grand Tour of Japanese Automotive – Overview (Part 1 of 8)
- Just in Time at Hyundai Mobis in Korea
- A Successful Example of Lean Implementation – Trumpf and its Synchro Manufacturing System (Part 1 of 2)
Seeing the Shop Floor
It’s all about seeing what’s really going on. Find the problems, before they find you!
- Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Introduction
- Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Visual Management, 5S, and Waste
- Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Unevenness, Overburden, and Safety
- Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Gemba vs. Data
- Different Aspects of Seeing a Shop Floor—Data
Work Standards
All you need to know, condensed in our book about Work Standards and Toyota Standard Work. Of course we also have plenty of posts on this topic
Line Balancing
All you need to know, condensed in our book about Work Standards and Toyota Standard Work. Of course we also have plenty of posts on this topic
Shop Floor Management
Check the Toyota KPI Dashboard approach for a good overview on the shop floor activities.
Inventory reduction
We show the first two posts very frequently in our consulting and coaching sessions. The approach is logical and clear, yet so often overlooked.
A bit more Academic
Let’s take a scientific approach and investigate the effects that influence system efficiency.
CONWIP
It’s almost the same as pull with kanbans, the difference lies in the details
How to Fudge Numbers
Well, this is not a guide on how to do it, but rather on how to recognize and prevent it.
Lean Line Design
What to consider during line layout, and which type of operation fits best to your requirements.
Our own Research Topics
Let’s take a scientific approach and investigate the effects that influence system efficiency.
Problem Solving
Take a deep breath of Toyota Practical Problem solving, and 8D, and A3.
Something Special
The Fendt Vario Takt, when you produce big and small in one line setup.
Hoshin Kanri
How often did your “True North” change in the last 5 Years?
Continuously Moving Lines
Understand how to reduce fluctuations and balance the line.
- The Particularities of Continuously Moving Assembly Lines
- Continuously Moving Assembly Line—Speed, Work Content, and Length
- Continuously Moving Assembly Line—How to Do Line Balancing
- Continuously Moving Assembly Line—Special Situations
- Continuously Moving Assembly Line—Speed Limitations
- Fluctuations on Continuously Moving Assembly Lines – Don’t Move the Workers Around! (Part 1 of 3)
Fancy Lean Stuff
Vibration sensors in TPM: Feel issues before they happen
SMED: Quick Changeover
We love the positive effects of faster changeovers
TPM: Total Productive Maintenance
Repair before a breakdwon!
Mixed Model Sequencing
How to assemble different Models on one line (a total of 12 blog posts)
Dark Lean
Lean is NOT about making operators run faster! Unless you are into Dark Lean – We don’t like!!!
You made it all the way to here?
Congratulations!
We hope you read some of the posts along the way and found some new inspiration. If you would have read all the posts on this page, you would still only have read about 100 of over 600 in our blog — leaving a long, long way to go!
And we hope of course, that this is enough proof that we know what we’re talking about… Agree?