The corporation OHB is the aerospace industry’s success story, says Stefan Lippautz. Within 25 years the company from northern Germany developed from a five-person-establishment to the third largest aerospace trust in Europe with 1,600 employees. Soon OHB will have reached a 500 million Euro turnover. “The reason for OHB’s competitiveness is their lean approach,” explains the expert from Arthur D. Little. While other companies still calculate under the slogan “cost plus extra charge,” OHB works with the principle “which price does it take to beat the others and how can we foresee that our costs are below theirs?”