Sense of Change: Success Story Staufen AG

Lean, fit and successful
For FEIG, lean transformation is a real success story. Annual
turnover has increased from about €30 million to more than
€50 million within a short decade.
RESULTS
Shop floor manufacturing in production has given way to a
waste-free one-piece flow without even a single employee having
to fear for their job. The company has acted wisely: FEIG used
freed resources for insourcing measures, allowing the company
to achieve almost 100 percent vertical integration. In sales,
the electronics specialist, which previously worked nearly without
any defined processes, was able to achieve a new strategic
quality. Leads are now generated, tracked and developed in a
process-oriented manner. Decision-makers spend less time dealing
with day-to-day business and are able to devote themselves
to their actual, higher-level tasks. The sales team has more time
to sell instead of getting lost in administrative processes.
Purchasing Manager Yvonne
Oesterling and her team look
forward to savings through new
measures such as the Idea Box.
FEIG has taken the path to become a Lean Enterprise at a remarkable
pace. The purchasing department is also transforming in this
direction and has achieved savings of almost €2 million within
1.5 years through measures such as cross-divisional product
group management. Today, the Weilburg company is one of
Staufen AG‘s BestPractice partners – in less than ten years they
have gone from Lean Trainee to Lean Master.
"One important change was
our new structure. In the past,
everyone did everything
and now there is a
clear allocation of employees
according to operational
or strategic tasks."
Yvonne Oesterling, Purchasing Manager
10 STAUFEN. | FEIG