Christoph Roser

Prof. Dr. Christoph Roser is an expert for lean production, an alumni of Toyota, McKinsey, and Bosch, and now a professor for production management at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany. Throughout his career Dr. Roser worked on projects in almost two hundred different plants, including automotive, machine construction, solar cells, chip manufacturing, gas turbine industry, paper making, logistics, power tools, heating, packaging, food processing, white goods, security technology, finance, and many more. He is an award-winning author of over fifty academic publications. Besides research, teaching, and consulting on lean manufacturing he is very interested into different approaches to manufacturing organization, both historical and current. His blog and website on lean manufacturing and manufacturing history is at www.AllAboutLean.com.