What is a Generic Production System?
A production system is more than a collection of Lean methods. It connects target picture, principles, methods, tools, management mechanisms and learning into a shared logic for everyday operations.
Why a reference model?
Many companies already have Lean methods, standards, shopfloor management, problem solving, performance indicators and improvement activities.
The challenge is often not the absence of individual tools, but the connection of these elements into a clear production and leadership logic.
GPS provides structured orientation. It helps classify existing approaches, make gaps visible and systematically develop a customer-specific production system.
The GPS Lighthouse
The GPS Lighthouse makes this logic visible. It is the Lean4Y Consulting reference model for a company-wide Generic Production System with a modern implementation architecture.
It shows how the system elements interact so that Lean is understood not as an isolated measure, but as a connected system.
GPS Lighthouse™ · © Lean4Y Consulting
What GPS provides
GPS helps view a production system not as a collection of methods, but as a connecting architecture for leadership, processes and improvement.
Create orientation
GPS structures principles, methods, tools, performance indicators and data into an understandable overall logic.
Make connections visible
It shows which elements already exist, how they interact and where gaps remain.
Prepare customer systems
It provides the basis for developing a clear and usable company-specific production system.
From GPS to a customer-specific production system
GPS is not simply transferred to a company. It serves as a structured starting point.
During the concept phase, the relevant principles, methods, tools and leadership routines are clarified for the specific company.
This creates a production system that fits the organization, processes, leadership structure and maturity level of the company.
Typical results
- clear production-system architecture
- shared understanding of Lean and leadership
- structured classification of existing initiatives
- visible gaps and priorities
- roadmap for introduction and anchoring
- basis for capability building through Academy and internal training
Who benefits most from GPS
Executive Management
When Lean, production, leadership and improvement need to be connected more strategically.
Operations Management
When plants, sites and functions require a shared production-system logic.
Lean and CI Leaders
When existing methods, projects and standards need to be brought into a clear architecture.
GPS and Lean4Y Academy
The Lean4Y Academy complements GPS where knowledge needs to be standardized, repeatable and scalable.
It supports the sustainable anchoring of a production system without replacing consulting work.
It helps leaders, Lean professionals and teams understand the logic behind methods, tools and leadership routines.
Capability building as an anchoring element
- create shared terminology
- teach fundamentals systematically
- develop leaders and teams
- make knowledge repeatedly available
- support implementation through learning materials
Would you like to develop your production system in a structured way?
GPS can serve as the starting point for structuring existing Lean activities and developing a clear customer-specific production system.