Our expertise for
manufacturing companies

Strategy and organization are inextricably linked. A clear corporate strategy with sustainable structures enables high performance and a strong competitive position.

Our approach to aligning and adapting an ideal corporate strategy for manufacturing companies is based on a holistic perspective. In addition to role definitions and sharpening, which are the prerequisites for professional leadership in the organization, we focus on efficient and robust core processes as well as systematic and situationally appropriate positioning in the supply chain. By this we mean both ideal connectivity to the sales market and the best possible identification and integration of the supply chain.

We support investment and growth decisions as well as crisis situations with individual and viable technology, location and supply concepts (operational due diligence) for short, medium and long-term solutions. We combine substantive expertise, entrepreneurial responsibility and sustainable design.

The performance of the core processes of manufacturing companies along the entire order processing chain is crucial for profitability and economic potential. The ideal degree of in-house vertical integration includes the responsibility of creating the best possible added value.

We maximize the operational excellence of manufacturing companies and value chains. Depending on the situation, we optimize output, efficiency, costs, OEE, use of technology, investments in machinery and equipment, management logic, KPI systems and quality in our own production areas and at suppliers.

We work in a highly dynamic way in the operations area, because conditions and risks change, sometimes on a daily basis – we know the constraints and objectives of plants of all sizes and industries. Stringent project management enables us to achieve measurable success quickly, even in complex initiatives.

Changes in the production structure require procedures far removed from day-to-day business. Companies are expanding or renewing themselves and are dependent on the best possible organizational and technological support to achieve ambitious overarching objectives.

From the initial idea for expanding production capacities to professional industrial engineering and the handover to day-to-day business, we develop site plans, factory concepts, specifications for machines and systems as well as resource requirements depending on different capacity utilization scenarios.

We are right in the middle of industrialization and ramp-up projects instead of just being there and take responsibility for our concepts, which we implement on site until they are fully realized or released for series production.

We see crises in manufacturing companies as a logical consequence of competitive unrest, changing conditions such as access to resources, a lack of organizational resilience or strategic miscalculations.

Our first step in crisis and escalation management is always an honest analysis of the situation. It is important to pull the right levers quickly in an acute emergency and, for example, to create an immediate impact as part of task forces – on site and with full identification with the content.

Consistency in focusing on stabilization and supply targets creates orientation and establishes operational efficiency. For us, it is essential that we generate viable solutions (from minimally invasive to complete restructuring) together with all parties involved in the value chain, especially in challenging escalation cases.

It is a corporate obligation and responsibility to use the best possible systems and structures for core, management and support processes. The further development of digital applications increases the challenges for manufacturing companies to find the most suitable solution, but also the associated opportunities.

We identify suitable solutions through individual scouting and accompany every digital technology transformation with a clear integration and migration logic. Through the targeted collection and structured use of production data, we enable the consistent mapping of value creation in a high-performance smart factory. With sound data analytics, we tap into optimization potential along the processes, create immediate transparency and strengthen forecasting capabilities through AI in operations.

We use digital tools to increase the efficiency and plannability of complex plant structures and create enormous scalability on the basis of business intelligence.

The unique selling points of manufacturing companies lie in products designed to meet market requirements. Specific production and technology concepts are required to ensure that the number of units produced and the quality of the products are right. At the interface between product and production design, the abundance of conflicting objectives results in far-reaching economic potential.

Both in the early phases of product development and in optimization loops, we support the development of coherent solutions with our production expertise. A decisive factor here is the feasibility assessment (feasibility studies) with dedicated suppliers.

With an integrated design-to-cost approach including investment evaluation, we combine product and production perspectives. Technical requirements (specifications), use of resources, integration of circular economy and production alternatives are consistently evaluated up to EOP (end of production) and their impact on the key company figures is derived.