RWTH Aachen / Lean Enterprise Institute
Successful practical examples sought
The Machine Tool Laboratory WZL at RWTH Aachen University is initiating a company comparison together with the Lean Enterprise Institute. The aim: to find successful and tried-and-tested approaches for the further development of production systems.
The RWTH project"Consortial Benchmarking Production Systems 4.0 - Increasing agility through process innovations" will start in May 2018. The project will give the partners the opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience and take away practical suggestions for their own area of responsibility - both in discussions with each other and with selected successful practice companies. The successful practices are determined on the basis of a questionnaire that the partners actively help to shape at the start of the project. The "successful practice companies" will be honored at a final conference in spring 2019.
Interested companies can join the industry consortium. Further information on the consortium benchmarking can be found online.
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