Consulting for production and manufacturing

Make your production fit for the future

Flexible plant structures for your company growth

In times of globalization and digitalization, market pressure is constantly increasing. As a manufacturing company, you are faced with the challenge of reconciling customer demands for individuality and quality with profitability and delivery capability. At the same time, geopolitical upheavals are leading to uncertainty and volatility. Planning horizons are becoming shorter and structures are regularly questioned. The shortage of skilled workers also often prevents manufacturing companies from meeting rising demand and benefiting from current market opportunities. As an experienced management consultancy, we support you in making your production future-proof, effectively implementing digitalization in production and achieving decisive competitive advantages: efficient, agile and adaptive.

Strategy

We develop a roadmap tailored to your needs in order to profitably optimize your production network.

Production strategy

A well thought-out production strategy ensures efficiency, flexibility and competitiveness. We help you to align your production in a targeted manner, optimize processes and create sustainable competitive advantages.

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Manufacturing Footprint

Modern production networks should ensure delivery capability, adapt flexibly to external influences and benefit from labor cost advantages. We support you in meeting these requirements by creating an optimized production network tailored to your needs.

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Make or Buy

With a make-or-buy analysis, we determine how you can align your production portfolio so that it is optimally suited to your company and its structures, taking into account profitability, technology and organization.

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Cost reduction programs

Individual strategies for optimizing processes and value chains for maximum efficiency and sustainable savings.

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Processes & Organization

We design and optimize the processes, systems and information flows of your production transparently, leanly and with the latest technologies.

Operational Excellence

Holistic organizational development in the context of operational excellence promotes the success of your business strategies and minimizes your risk. The result: higher margins and improved delivery capability, quality and cost structure.

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Production process

Every production consists of many different work steps that are interlinked and interdependent. Organizing these intelligently and efficiently is at the heart of every manufacturing company.

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Production systems

Value-adding production can only be developed on the basis of a holistic view of the company structure and its requirements. Based on this principle, we examine various production systems, select the optimum system and adapt it for your company.

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Technology & structures

We support you in the holistic planning of your factories – from the search for a location to the start of production.

Location search

We support you in selecting the optimal location with a well-founded decision-making process. Our recipe for success: reliable key figures in the Rothbaum regional database at NUTS 2 level, meaningful utility value analyses and long-standing local partners.

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Factory planning

The factory is the heart of your company. Whether greenfield or brownfield, we ensure that your factory is expandable and that you can work there with the greatest possible efficiency, flexibility and operational excellence in the future.

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General planning

Are you planning a construction project? Or do you want to expand or consolidate your production or logistics, for example? General planning is a decisive step in the realization of industrial construction projects and contributes significantly to the result.

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Green Factory

The challenges you face on the way to a sustainable factory are varied and complex. But it’s worth the effort, because waste and inefficiencies in your processes also stand in the way of your economic success.

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Selected success stories in the Production division

Cost reduction analysis

Using strategic process and cost analysis to develop cost-cutting measures in the coffee production network.

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Manufacturing Footprint Europe

With the strategic conception, site selection and factory planning to improve the entire value creation network.

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Modern logistics concept for the vertical factory of V-ZUG AG

The new intralogistics system enables V-ZUG to implement efficient processes right from the start of the vertical factory.

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Process mining in the door factory

With the real-time analyses generated – including in the areas of system performance, master data, rejects and idle times – optimization potentials could be identified.

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Spare parts logistics concept

As part of a refurbishment project, the logistics concept was planned and the individual trades were put out to tender at short notice in parallel with the search for rental properties.

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Process mining pilot at a glass refiner

Process mining was used to create a digital image of the entire production process, thereby generating transparency about the process sequences.

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The benefits for your production

We speak the language of both management and store floor staff. Our strength lies in getting your specialists excited about the planned changes. At the same time, our certified project managers maintain an overview, demand responsibilities from your project team and lend a hand themselves. In this way, we accompany you from the initial idea to the start of production and support you with effective digitalization in production.

Innovative solutions

for the digitalization of production, such as 3D modelling and simulations

Cross-industry expertise

to optimize your manufacturing, assembly and production systems

Technically and economically optimized degree of automation

for your systems, machines and processes

Certified project managers

Experienced project coordination from start-up to implementation

Lean perspective

Evaluation and optimization of processes according to lean principles

Potential analyses and well-founded recommendations for action

to identify potential for optimization and automation