Lutz Dahlke
Lutz is a very experienced and qualified lean consultant with a successful corporate career in GKN and Federal Mogul. He specializes in building sustainable systems via engaging employees in applying the situationally right Lean tools and in optimizing both material and information flow.
He had direct line responsibility for creating lean structures for the first time at plant level and used them both in the manufacturing and in the administrative area.
EXAMPLE RESULTS:
From 27 days to 2 days lead time reduction
40% reduction in WIP
Reduction in backlog from more than €3 million to €0
Reduction in special freight from €200,000/month to €0
40% productivity increase freeing up an entire shift of 15 employees
Total elimination of semi-finished stocks by improving process stability and material flow
45% increase in OEE on bottleneck machines
PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
Introduction of production systems
Optimization along the value chain using value stream mapping and design
Set-up time reductions using SMED
Technical optimizations to eliminate bottleneck processes
Building effective team structures
Introduction of auditing systems for lean tools (5S, LTA, VM, SW, Kaizen, TPM)
CONSULTING SKILLS:
Lean Enterprise
Optimisation along the value chain using value stream mapping and -design
Business Process Excellence / Improvement
Technical optimisations to eliminate bottleneck processes
Employee involvement and development systems, Building effective team structures
KANBAN and FIFO scheduling
Introduction of auditing systems for lean tools (5S, LTA, VM, SW, Kaizen, TPM)
Visual management implementation