Just get on with it. This is how cultural change succeeds on the shop floor.

Just get on with it.

This is how cultural change succeeds on the shop floor.

Anyone entering DB Fahrzeuginstandhaltung’s Kassel plant sees historic buildings from the 19th century. Inside, however: state-of-the-art maintenance technology.

Tradition outside – transformation inside.

A powerful image of change that grows from mindset – with respect for what exists and clarity about what is new.

Yesterday, I met

Thomas Killmaier

there again – a companion from my

Lufthansa Technik

days.

We had not seen each other for years – and yet it felt like yesterday.

What particularly impressed me:

How Thomas leads this complex maintenance environment with calm, composure and absolute presence – and implements cultural change pragmatically and effectively.

Not in glossy slides – but as part of operational reality.

“Just get on with it” – his motto gets to the heart of it.

And it works.

In wheelset overhaul, for example:

🔧 Every single wheelset – from the ICE 3 to the regional train – is dismantled here, overhauled through several stations and reassembled in exactly the same configuration.

💡 Hundreds of these orders run in parallel.

Almost invisible from the outside, this is a production logistics masterpiece on the inside – made possible by clarity, structure and mindset.

Transformation you can touch.

Thank you, Thomas, for this open and inspiring exchange.

I look forward to continuing our conversation – soon in Hamburg.

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