Rising pressure from the competition and rapidly-changing market conditions are forcing many companies to optimize or restructure their production and factories. Complex change processes heading towards future states are often mismatched with actual market needs. The advantage of a manufacturing strategy is the ability to obtain a detailed overview of long-term goals for the production. As a result, investments and structural changes are not based purely on costs and experience. Initiatives are based on strategic decisions derived from customer, consumer und economic needs. A manufacturing strategy enables you to define clear objectives which determine your market and manufacturing expertise in creating a lean value-adding system.
We help you design your manufacturing strategy and provide you with a holistic planning method. We look carefully at all the areas of factory organization and manufacturing. After analyzing and assessing the performance requirements of your production, we go on to develop possible courses of action.
The chosen strategy is then transferred to a production concept for later projects. With our consulting expertise in mapping and designing value streams as well as in planning factories and manufacturing systems, we support your production optimization all the way - from development of the strategy right through to its implementation.
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA