- Ergonomic workplace design, also according to 5S
- Planning of handling and assembly equipment
- Planning of lines and workstations, also in insular design
- Optimisation of production and assembly processes
- Line balancing and planning of cycle volumes
- Headcount planning
- Segmentation of assembly lines and stations
Production strategies
ebp-consulting supports companies in optimizing and implementing the optimal production strategy.
Ensuring the long-term competitiveness of a company
To ensure long-term competitiveness, companies must regularly review their production concept and, if necessary, develop a new production strategy. Sometimes, it is sufficient to simply adjust the current production strategy. In both cases, however, the fundamental question arises as to whether the current production strategy, and thus also the production concept, will meet future requirements. In addition, it is important to consider what the future production concept should look like. This leads to many other topics:
- What alternative production concepts are there?
- Which production strategy is the right one for the future?
- What logistics strategy can be derived from the new production strategy?
- What competitive advantage can be achieved by integrating modern developments such as globalization, digitalization, AI, and IoT?
- What impact does the new production strategy have on personnel requirements in terms of capacity and qualifications?
- Which external service providers and business partners do we need to implement the new production strategy?
The result of this often represents an investment requirement that must be fixed in the medium and long term. Shorter innovation cycles further exacerbate the need for action. Global trends such as digitalization and sustainability must not be missed, but must be considered in terms of their significance for your own company, and features that are crucial to success must be integrated. The aim is to avoid misplanning under all circumstances and, in return, to ensure planning reliability. Against the backdrop of globalization, this applies to large corporations as well as to medium-sized companies.
For many years, we have been supporting manufacturing companies in the analysis and customer-oriented realignment of their value creation process, thereby designing the optimal production strategy. Furthermore, we accompany our customers through to the implementation of this strategy.
Our services as a management consultancy on the topic of optimal production strategy:
- Introduction and adaptation of production systems
- Production organization
- Manufacturing segmentation
- Introduction of customer order-oriented production (make-to-order)
- Introduction of Kaizen/CIP
- Make-or-buy analysis
- Definition of customer order decoupling or postponement strategies (late configuration)
- Optimization of work organization
- Development of personnel deployment concepts
- Implementation of process optimizations in material flow as well as in planning and control to achieve operational excellence (OpEx)
- Implementation of Gemba walks
