Production
Digitize production:
Smart Factory Consulting and Lean Production Consulting
Smart Factory Consulting: Efficient. Connected. Future-proof.
Rising costs, volatile markets, and increasing customer demands call for a production process that is flexible, efficient, and data-driven. With our Smart Factory Consulting, you can lay the groundwork for intelligent, connected manufacturing and sustainably boost your competitiveness. Rothbaum supports you every step of the way, from optimizing your processes to successfully implementing the right smart factory solutions – thereby creating greater transparency, productivity, and future-proofing for your company.
Philipp Kappus
Senior Manager Production
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Determination of the status quo & maturity level
Recognizing the starting point, making potential visible
A well-founded analysis of your current maturity level is the first step towards targeted further development. As part of our Smart Factory Consulting, we evaluate your processes, systems and technologies in comparison to a clearly defined benchmark – and work with you to define realistic goals.
We work out the special features and challenges of your company in a targeted manner, uncover weaknesses and show where your greatest potential lies. Our Smart Factory Consulting supports you in translating the results of this analysis directly into a practice-oriented strategy.
Our service packages:
- Analyze your factory’s digital maturity with the Rothbaum Digitalization Check
- Evaluate current processes, technologies, and systems
- Identify opportunities for optimization and potential for efficiency gains
- Compare industry benchmarks and derive actions
Your benefit:
- Transparency Regarding the Status of Digital Development
- Clear Priorities for the Transformation
- Joint target definition with all relevant stakeholders
- Rapid Implementation of Initial Improvements
- Greater planning certainty for further digitalization
Lean Production
Stable, lean processes as the basis for lean production consulting
No smart factory without stable, lean processes. Lean production forms the basis for efficiency, flexibility and digital transformation. With tried-and-tested methods and a tried-and-tested approach, we create the conditions for continuously efficient production as part of our lean production consulting.
Our service packages:
- Implementing Stable and Efficient Processes as the Foundation for the Digital Factory
- Implementing the Rothbaum OPEX Methodology Toolkit for Sustainable Process Improvement
- Embedding Lean Principles in the Company for the Long Term
- Developing a company-wide lean culture
Your benefit:
- Foundation for the smart factory: stable, digital-ready processes
- Long-term competitiveness through continuous improvement
- Sustainable increase in performance of employees, managers and organization
Automation & robotics
Targeted use of machines, systems and technologies for digitalization in production
Automation not only increases efficiency and output, but also relieves your employees. The decisive factor here is not the principle of “more is better”, but the targeted, sensible use of suitable technologies. As part of our Smart Factory Consulting, we not only work with you to analyse which level of automation suits your factory, your processes and your maturity level – we also support you from selection to successful integration, both technically and organizationally.
Our service packages:
- Analyze and determine the optimal level of automation for your factory
- Select and implement suitable machines, equipment, and systems
- Integrating Robotic Technologies for Routine Tasks
- Implement automation solutions from both a technical and organizational perspective
- Supporting Change Through Targeted Change Management
Your benefit:
- Higher production capacity and process stability
- Flexible scalability of production
- Relieving employees of monotonous tasks
- Future-proof automation strategy
- Reducing the impact of the shortage of skilled workers
Data & IT systems
Creating transparency through the integration of real-time data and intelligent IT systems
Data plays a central role in digitalizing production – and beyond. We think about your value creation end-to-end and support you with our Smart Factory Consulting to identify precisely the data points that you really need along the entire process for key figures, decisions and automation – including a clean structuring of your master data and relevant real-time information. In this way, we create the basis for well-founded decisions, stable processes and a scalable IT infrastructure – tailored to your target image, whether on-premise, private cloud or public cloud.
Our service packages:
- Integrating Real-Time Data for Digital Production Control
- Using AI and Data Analytics for Process Optimization and Data-Driven Decision Making
- Ensuring IT security and adherence to compliance requirements in networked production
- Implementation of dashboards for clear visualization of the relevant key figures
Your benefit:
- Full transparency of processes in real time
- Fast, data-based decisions
- Continuous increase in efficiency through AI and data analytics
- Ensuring security & compliance in networked production
Sustainability & energy efficiency
Ensuring sustainable and resource-conserving value creation
Energy efficiency and sustainability have long been strategic success factors – even in the smart factory. Digitizing, networking and making processes more transparent also creates the basis for not only identifying ecological levers but also optimizing them in a targeted manner. Our Smart Factory consulting supports you in thinking about sustainability right from the start – with little additional effort, but with tangible economic and ecological benefits: through integrated data transparency, targeted measures and measurable impact.
Our service packages:
- Analysis of resource utilization and energy consumption in production processes
- Optimization of your factory taking into account the Green Factory principles
- Implementation of measures to conserve resources and make the production facility more environmentally friendly
- Support with progress tracking, certificates and sustainability reporting
Your benefit:
- Reduction of energy and operating costs
- Compliance with legal requirements
- Building a green corporate culture
- Measurable ecological impact
Roadmap & implementation of measures
Structured planning – targeted implementation
Structured implementation is crucial for success. With a clear roadmap and tailor-made measures, we support you in effectively realizing your smart factory goals – pragmatically, purposefully and results-oriented. The scope of our smart factory consulting services ranges from the definition of specific measures and responsibilities to the coordination and operational implementation of selected measures – always tailored to your needs and your organization.
The basis for this is a clear production strategy that defines goals, priorities and the right development path.
Our service packages:
- Development of a structured roadmap for achieving the Smart Factory
- Definition of concrete measures and milestones for implementation
- End-to-end Smart Factory consulting: support with the implementation and continuous adaptation of measures
- Monitoring and reporting of progress
Your benefit:
- Clear implementation steps and responsibilities for the realization of your Smart Factory goals
- Clear focus on your corporate and production strategy
- Efficient implementation through a structured approach
- Faster measurable results
What is a smart factory, and how can my company benefit from it?
A smart factory is a digitally networked, flexible and self-optimizing production environment in which machines, systems and people communicate in real time and work together efficiently.
What is Lean Production?
Lean production stands for the lean, efficient and waste-free design of production processes. The aim is to optimize all processes in such a way that resources, time and costs are minimized – while maintaining a consistently high level of quality and flexibility. Lean production consulting helps companies to identify potential in existing processes, build stable structures and establish a culture of continuous improvement. This creates the basis for a future-proof, digitally networked smart factory.
What is Industry 4.0?
Industry 4.0 refers to the profound transformation of industrial value creation through the networking of people, machines and products via cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things, with the aim of highly flexible, efficient and digitally integrated production. The smart factory is a concrete application of Industry 4.0 – it transfers the principles of digital networking, decentralization and real-time capability directly to the factory.
How do I start digitizing my production?
The path to digitalizing production begins with an analysis of your status quo and the establishment of a lean, stable production basis. On this basis, we work with you to develop a customized roadmap to the smart factory – data-based, automated and sustainable.
