Production management

There are many reasons for inefficient production which fails to comply with market requirement: Changed production volumes, modifications in the product spectrum, structures – now obsolete – which have evolved over time, to name only a few. These result in high inventory levels, long lead times and excessive delivery lead times.

Working together with you, we will highlight inefficiencies in your company and support you in seeking ways to optimize and configure your production and assembly departments. Using the lean production philosophy, we will support you in a host of different ways. We will enable you to implement efficient production and assembly, and to achieve minimal lead times. Our approach is to concentrate on essentials and lean value adding processes. No matter whether you are looking at a single workstation, whole production and assembly lines or manufacturing requirements planning (MRP).
Assembly, pre-assembly
  • Ergonomic and 5S-conforming work station design
  • Planning of handling and assembly equipment
  • Planning of lines and work and manufacturing cells
  • Optimization of production and assembly processes
  • Line balancing
  • Personnel requirements planning
  • Segmentation
Production strategies
  • Introduction and adjustment of production systems
  • Production organization
  • Production segmentation
  • Introduction of make-to-order production
  • Introduction of Kaizen / CIP
  • Make-or-buy analysis
  • Definition of order decoupling point
  • Optimization of work organization
  • Development of personnel deployment concepts
Planning and control
  • Introduction of pull concept
  • Set-up of order management teams / order management centers
  • Optimization of production planning and execution
  • Batch size optimization
  • Optimization of order planning processes
  • Optimization of order management processes and systems
  • Optimization of capacity planning and selection of tools
Lean production
  • Improvement of machine capacity utilization (OEE optimization)
  • Optimization of machine set-ups - SMED / quick changeover
  • Conducting value stream analyses and designs
  • Introduction of line production (one-piece-flow)
  • Implementation of Toyota production principles: one-piece-flow, pull principle, zero defects, synchronized production
  • Application of lean methods / techniques: Poka Yoke, Heijunka, Jidoka, Minomi, Chaku Chaku
  • Application and implementation of Six Sigma