+++ Award in the category “Supplier” for outstanding
interaction of lean management, digitalization, and innovative power
+++ Martin Frensch, Senior Vice President of Body, Exterior Trim and
Interior in the purchasing and supplier network at BMW Group:
“Lean before Digital is our guiding principle for efficient and
forwardlooking production.” +++

Landshut/Wackersdorf. The cockpit production at the
BMW Group plants in Landshut and Wackersdorf will be awarded with the 
Automotive Lean Production Award in the category “Supplier”.
The  jury was impressed by the outstanding ensemble of lean
management, digitalization, and innovation in the interior components
production at the BMW Group. The award will be presented at the 19th
Automotive Lean Production Congress on November 25 and 26, 2025, in
Poznań, Poland.

Smart production of cockpits: increased flexibility and
efficiency in the production and supply chain.

With highest precision, employees at the BMW Group plants in
Landshut and Wackersdorf manufacture interior components for the BMW 1
Series, 2 Series, 3 Series, 4 Series, 5 Series, and 7 Series, as well
as the BMW iX. Every day, several thousand instrument panels and glove
boxes leave the two component plants. “Technological know-how,
highly automated production processes, AI-supported quality controls
as well as lean value streams form the foundation for efficient work
in this field of production,” explains Wolf Duwenkamp, Vice
President Purchasing, Quality, Production Cockpit and Door Panels at
the BMW Group plants in Landshut and Wackersdorf.

Excellent processes, digital transformation and highest
quality standards.

The production process at the cockpit production of the BMW
Group plants Landshut and Wackersdorf is based on the PULL principle.
The workstations where sequencing begins are optimally supplied
through self-regulating control loops, ensuring a smooth material
flow. The digital transformation of employee roles, such as the mobile
operator, demonstrates the close collaboration between humans and
machines and brings out additional benefits. Automated end-of-line
inspections using AI-supported camera systems, allow an early
detection and elimination of potential sources of error.

“Lean before Digital is our guiding principle for an efficient
and forward-looking production in the component manufacturing. The
combination of excellent processes, digital transformation, and the
highest quality standards forms the foundation of our success. By
sharing our knowledge, we actively contribute to the global
supplier qualification, ensuring robust industrialization of all
partners,” explains Martin Frensch, Senior Vice President of Body,
Exterior Trim and Interior in the purchasing and supplier network at
BMW Group. “To remain competitive, we must continuously question and
develope ourselves. The Automotive Lean Production Award shows that we
are benchmark, which is something to be proud of,” Frensch adds.

About Automotive Lean Production – Award & Study.

The goal of the joint project by AUTOMOBIL PRODUKTION and Agamus
Consult is to demonstrate how the European automotive industry
leverages the potentials of lean and digitalization. For 19 years,
companies – both OEMs and suppliers – have been participating in a
benchmark study, facing international competition for the prestigious
Automotive Lean Production Awards with the guiding  principle
“Learning from the best!”.

In the event of enquiries please contact:


BMW Group, Corporate Communications


Carolin Seidel, Press Spokesperson BMW Group Plant
Landshut
Email: Carolin.Seidel@bmwgroup.com, Phone: +49 151 601 90340

Stefanie Schindler, Communications BMW Group Plant
Landshut
Email: Stefanie.Schindler@bmw.de, Phone: +49 151 601 41977

Saskia Graser, Head of Communications Regensburg and
Wackersdorf Email: Saskia.Graser@bmw.de, Phone: +49 151 6060 2014

Dr. Annika Biss, Communications BMW Group Plant
Wackersdorf
Email: Annika.Biss@bmwgroup.com, Phone: +49-151-601-52588

Media website: www.press.bmwgroup.com
Email: presse@bmw.de

BMW Group Plant Landshut

At BMW Group Plant Landshut, around 3,800 employees
produce light metal cast engine, suspension and body structure
components, electrical and electronic components, plastic components
for the vehicle exterior, carbon body components, cockpit and
equipment features, engines and propeller shafts. Plant Landshut is
the BMW Group’s largest component plant and supplies components to all
BMW Group vehicle and engine plants worldwide – and therefore for
virtually every BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicle, as well as for BMW
Motorrad. Component production at BMW Group Plant  Landshut is
characterised by digitalisation, a focus on sustainability and a
commitment to responsible use of resources. With its forward-looking
technologies, BMW Group Plant Landshut assumes the role of innovation
driver in the technological transformation of the automotive sector
and its supplier industry. At the Technology Centre adjacent to the
plant, specialists from a wide range of disciplines are brought into
development processes for new vehicles in the early stages and help to
actively drive sustainable development of future vehicle models. BMW
Group Plant Landshut is a socially responsible, innovative and
attractive employer for the region of Landshut and Lower Bavaria.

https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/landshut/en.html

BMW Group Plants Regensburg und Wackersdorf

The BMW Group vehicle plant in Regensburg has been in
operation since 1986 and is one of more than 30 BMW Group production
locations worldwide. Every workday, around 1,400 vehicles of the BMW
X1 and BMW X2 models roll off the production line at Plant Regensburg,
destined for customers around the globe. Different types of drive
trains are flexibly manufactured on a single production line – ranging
from vehicles with internal combustion engines to plug-in hybrids and
fully-electric models.

BMW Group Plant Regensburg was recognised as “FACTORY OF THE
YEAR” 2024 in the category “excellent large-series assembly” of the
prestigious industrial competition. As it implements the BMW iFACTORY,
the BMW Group is focused on digitalisation of the Regensburg plant
site to create a digital and intelligently connected factory. It is
already possible to experience in virtual form what the factory will
look like a few years from now. Production of models for the NEUE
KLASSE, BMW’s next generation of vehicles, will ramp up in Regensburg
in the second half of the decade.

The BMW Group plant in Wackersdorf is home to cockpit production
and parts supply for overseas plants. With the opening of a new
battery testing centre and commissioning of the first phase in autumn
2024, the location has also become a key facilitator for
electromobility. An entirely new area of expertise for the site is the
door and flap production centre for Rolls-Royce.

The BMW Group core staff at the Regensburg and Wackersdorf
locations in eastern Bavaria consists of around 9,250 employees,
including around 350 apprentices.

www.bmwgroup-werke.com/regensburg/en.html

The BMW Group
With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad,
the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of
automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial
services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30
production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in
more than 140 countries.

In 2024, the BMW Group sold over 2.45 million passenger vehicles
and more than 210,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in
the financial year 2024 was € 11.0 billion on revenues amounting to €
142.4 billion. As of 31 December 2024, the BMW Group had a workforce
of 159,104 employees.

The economic success of the BMW Group has always been based on
long-term thinking and responsible action. Sustainability is a key
element of the BMW Group’s corporate strategy and covers all products
from the supply chain and production to the end of their useful life.


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