- Mechanical engineering
Bringing production expertise into business model developments at an early stage was the reason for the cooperation in this project environment. It quickly became apparent that the process-oriented design of variant groupings, as well as the complex management of product and production process characteristics, generates decisive cost advantages.
In the actual project application, we structured across all disciplines the respective interests and influences for potential components to be remanufactured. Since technological and economic aspects cannot be kept apart in this context, our expertise in presenting complex interrelationships in a clear and simple manner and making evaluation recommendations was able to have the best possible effect. We selected processes for reprocessing, described the economic viability and managed the implementation of the equipment and production processes. Today, the components and processes designed by us are processed in a plant at a supplier and, in accordance with the law on closed-loop recycling, are put to further use in an ecologically and economically very profitable way.
Profile
Company size
Location
Germany
Period
4 years
Branch
- Mechanical engineering
Percentage of individual services
- reactive situation stabilization
- holistic concept development
- risk analysis production performance
- Reaktive Situationsstabilisierung
- Ganzheitliche Konzepterstellung
- Risikoanalyse Produktionsperformance
Challenge
- Declining retention in older vehicle segments
- Gray market for spare parts and repair
- Decreasing contribution margins, increasing manufacturing costs for spare parts
- Variant management due to cross-assembly and AI levels
- Establishment and industrialization of supply chain for remanufacturing of spare parts components
- Reverse logistics
- Bring about corporate resulutions (committee runs)
Procedure
- Market and competition analysis to determine the potential with remanufactured spare parts
- Feasibility study and creation of business cases
- Modeling End2End processes
- Concept creation variant management
- Site analysis and assessment
- Tendering and awarding suppliers for the reconditioning of spare parts components
- Support of industrialization at Tier-1
- Development of marketing concepts
Results
- Positive business case anchored in long-term corporate planning
- Corporate resolution (at board level)
- Product management established for variant management and product- and portfolio maintenance
- Backward parts chain optimized and core management implemented
- Supplier for reconditioning of spare parts components nominated and industrialized
- In-house assembly processes connected
- Marketing approach developed and implemented
The project in detail
Project Highlights
Dovetailing of economic and technological variant evaluation
Marriage of product and process analyses
Massive contribution to climate-friendly circular economy
