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We are
m
lean
Our vision
Transform the factories into a safe working environment where digital technology enables each person to develop innate abilities to become a factory with a future, within a sustainable world.
Our story
As a team, we always had the vision on the urge to improve people’s lives on the shop floor, where everything happens. Soon we realize that it was critical to make them part of the company strategy and growth. However, we needed first to understand their daily routines and reality.
We wore our safety shoes and went to the Gemba, where things happen. After a few successful trials in 2013, a diverse and courageous team of operations and software engineers with many years of experience in lean manufacturing, designed what it is today the mlean® Production System.
The team’s laser focus was how to maximize the innate abilities of the frontline associates and industrial processes with a digital production system, perfectly integrated into the factory engine. Besides the goal was to improve their user experience with digital tools to maximize their contribution. In 2014 Mobile Lean, SL was created, and then our manifesto:
Manifesto
Go where the action happens
Involve your people
Just in time
On the move
We were proud to see that our system was bringing self-actualization to better deal with reality, solving problems easily and improving efficiency in a sustainable approach. Customer adoption and improving the user experience were next.
One thing was clear, whatever we develop had to solve every single problem we detected. At the same time, this system should encourage us to be as much as we could at the shop floor, foster communication and collaboration, and simply connect people with industrial processes. That simple. A system to detect, collect and share information, ready at any time, for anybody, anywhere.
We were born to continue developing abilities of the people by providing them with the right tools. In this way, not only we were developing and engaging their teams but ensuring company survival. At mlean, we are very proud of creating value for customers, transforming worker’s lives and, setting trends for a better, more sustainable, and efficient world. The mlean® Production System is already implemented in large and local enterprises, and it is already present in almost 200 factories globally.
The timeline
The traction
2013
“Testing the Waters” – Mobile Lean Manufacturing
- Job Observation and 5S development
- iKaizen Development
- First on the field trials (Spain, France and Portugal)
- Success stories and market expectation
New Beginnings
2014 – 2017
mlean® is born
- 2014 mlean is born
- First 13 factories in 4 global customers
- Members of the Lean Community, Facyl & Escuela Lean
- The first investment round closed
Expansion
2018 – 2020
Growth & Collaboration
- The mlean® Production System
is already in +150 factories - + 30 international and local customers
- 23 countries & + 12 languages
- International partners network expands the mlean® PS
- Break-even
Leaders in the market
2021 – 2023
Become a manufacturing industry benchmark
- Provide mlean® PS with AI
- Presence in +2000 factories
- Market Expansion in Europe and South America
Awards & Recognitions
Premios Emprendedor XXI: the company with highest potential in Castilla and León
2016
Second position in Spanish National Awards in Industrial Technologies.
2016
Best Young company by Castilla y León Económica Magazine.
2017
2018
Finalists as Best Innovative Solution in Advanced Factories.
2018
Best industrial Startup according to Ingenieros VA.
2019
Angélica Lozano, mlean CTO named as Best Executive R+D by Castilla y León Económica.
Leadership
We are a team of talented people from both sides of the Atlantic. Beyond being members of the mlean team, we are artists, parents, singers, lovers of good wine and food, travelers, climbers, gardeners, golfers, musicians, runners, bicycle riders, brothers, sisters, friends and animal lovers.
Angélica
Lozano
CTO & CO-FOUNDER
PhD in Telecommunications Angélica counts with l2 years of experience in SW development. Since 2012, she is the CTO and leads agile teams and Product Development.
Roberto
Delgado
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
MsC in Telecommunications Engineering.
Roberto counts with 16 years of experience in SW development. Since 2011, leading startups companies as CEO and managing Business Development & Marketing.
Antonio
Alonso
CFO & CO-FOUNDER
MsC in Telecommunications Engineering.
Antonio counts with 15 years of experience in SW development. Since 2011, leading startups companies as CFO.
Elena
Santos
CUSTOMER SUCCESS DIRECTOR
BA in Translation and Interpretation. Master in International Management and Foreign Trade. Elena has over 10 years of experience leading her own business as interpreter and languages teacher, and wide experience in customer service.
Nuncha
Marañón
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
BA in English Philology, Master in Marketing and Commercial Management and MBA in Asian markets. Nuncha has more than 20 years of experience leading international marketing teams in large corporations in Europe and the USA for automotive companies and a startup in MI, USA.
Advisors
Emilio
Delgado
+40 years of experience in automotive sector. Emilio has worked as Quality Manager and Senior Consultant on Lean Manufacturing methodologies.
Carlos
Montero
Carlos studied Electrical Engineering at MIT. He completed the General Management Program at HBS. Carlos has led engineering and business teams from early stage startups to billion dollar companies in Boston and Silicon Valley.
Markus
Rex
Markus has over 25 years of experience in building software-based businesses in various technical, marketing, sales and general managoment roles. He is an alumni of Harvard Business School.
Javier
Roncal
+40 years in manufacturing sector. Javier has experience as executive in different areas as Human Resources. Operations and CEO roles in automotive and wind power firms in Europe.
mlean in numbers
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