Cherry wins automotive lean manufacturing accolade for its production efficiency

Says Günter Murmann, Managing Director of Cherry: “The Automotive Lean Production Award demonstrates that we are now an established player in the highly competitive automotive market.”



Cherry has implemented a production system based on five principles: demand-driven production, continuous improvement, process-oriented working structures, innovative manufacturing technologies and a balanced ratio of managers to employees. In order to eliminate unnecessary working practices, the company tightly controls the production and business processes along the supply chain. The system outlines the most important processes and principles to provide the basis for company-wide standards for increased transparency and efficiency. This has allowed Cherry to achieve maximum use of its production facilities for up to 360 days a year, and an average annual increase in productivity of 6 per cent.