WHY HAS THE INITIATIVE BEEN FOUNDED OR RENEWED?

• Basic idea as a lean working group in 2018 as a joint project of the University Institute for Logistics and the Volkswagen factory in Emden.
• At that time, exchange on various topics of lean management as well as consideration of the approaches of the respective participants at their own location.
• In addition to the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer and VW Emden, further participants with Bernhard Krone, Leoni Cables and ELA Container in 2018.
• Expansion of the initiative's focus to include optimization approaches in the areas of technology, organisation and personnel in addition to lean management topics.
• Active follow-up to the wish of regional companies for an exchange of experience among themselves, practical examples and support in process optimization (representative survey by the university, 2021).

WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE INITIATIVE?

• Benefit from best-practice examples for your own company
• Professional technical support provided at workshops
• Regional networking
• Broadening the knowledge and the horizon of experience of your own employees
• Workshops to implement the results of the initiative within your own company

WHAT DO WE OFFER YOU WITH THIS INITIATIVE?

• Best-practice companies in the field of operational excellence
• Intensive exchange/networking on the current state of the art/methodology
• Opportunity to present your own strategies
• Advertising through a short profile on our homepage
• Catering during the meetings

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

The initiative "Operational Excellence" is supervised by professor doctor Dirk Schleuter and graduate engineer Jens Janßen.