Collaborative Factory Planning

The challenge

• A lack of data makes planning with digital factory models difficult.
• Plant and building models are often not available or are outdated.
• The location-independent recording of necessary data such as path widths or distance measurements is also difficult.

Your added value:

• Use point clouds as a digital planning basis
• Simplify collaboration and transparency in factory planning projects
• Avoid planning errors by working with precise models.

Our range of solutions:

• In a workshop (digital or on-site), we work with you to identify individual use cases for the use of point clouds and digital factory models.
• We use our laser scanners to create point clouds with linked panoramic images for selected areas. The scope can range from one part of a building to several entire buildings.
• The data is processed and made available to you for use on a browser-based platform. This data can be used as a basis for meetings, for surveying or as a modeling basis in factory planning.
• Depending on the defined use cases, we support you with processing measures or determine possible utilization potentials with you.

The challenge

• Are you struggling with insufficient efficiency in your production processes and thus failing to meet your ambitious targets?
• Does a lack of flexibility in your production system prevent you from adapting quickly to changing conditions?
• Is the integration of new systems into existing production processes proving to be a complex task?
• Is your production opaque and lacking transparency? Do you collect a lot of data but are unable to use it profitably?
• Are terms such as the digital twin, the industrial metaverse, the digital/glass factory or Industry 4.0 difficult to grasp trends for you without recognizable real benefits for your production?

Our range of solutions

Analysis of the current state of your company

• Definition of target dimensions tailored to your situation and your company
• Process mapping and modeling of processes in process diagrams, identification of bottleneck processes
• Recording degrees of freedom and restrictions

Production system profiling

• Presentation of the strengths and weaknesses of your company/production system with regard to your specific corporate goals
• Main aspects can be: performance analysis, efficiency evaluation, resource utilization, quality control, cost analysis, bottleneck analysis

Identification of optimization potentials

Based on the profiling and the analyses, concrete optimization potentials are identified, taking into account your specific degrees of freedom

Quantification of potential and planning of measures

• The potentials are quantified with the help of tools specifically selected for the use case. Simulation tools can be used here, for example.
• We then derive specific implementation measures

Objective strategy development and implementation support

• Tailor-made strategy to leverage the identified potential
• We support you in the implementation of your successful change

The challenge

• Are you struggling with an increasingly frequent need for rescheduling?
• Is a lack of collaboration and a multitude of interfaces slowing down your planning processes?
• Do you repeatedly encounter problems in factory planning projects due to a lack of standards (processes, roles, responsibilities)?

Your added value:

• Increase the efficiency of your factory planning processes for significant time and cost savings
• Improve the results of your planning
• Avoid planning errors by optimizing your factory planning strategy

Our range of solutions:

• Identification of your specific challenges in the current factory planning process and the goals for an optimized factory planning process
  • Conducting a workshop with representatives of the relevant organizational units
  • Structured and prioritized challenges and goals
• Mapping of your current process including all roles, activities and software used
  • Development of a process representation (e.g. BPMN or SIPOC) and evaluation of optimization potentials
  • Structured actual process including identified potential
• Evaluation of your future factory planning process
  • Development of the optimized factory planning process including identification of suitable software
  • Organizational and technical factory planning process of the future
• Joint validation of the new factory planning process based on a case study
  • Development and implementation of a planning scenario
  • Validated factory planning process of the future