Climate change, resource shortages, supply bottlenecks, changing customer requirements and new technologies  – the age of digitization and the ever-increasing pace of change in markets are resulting in numerous challenges. Cost-efficient production is essential to remaining fit for the future in this complex environment. Because that is the only way for automotive companies to establish and expand their market position in the long term.

By using our Integrated Factory Planning approach in collaboration with our customers, we create manufacturing solutions that enable sustainable and highly cost-efficient production.

Close dovetailing and highly precise coordination between production and industrial construction planning result in an optimally balanced factory that sets new standards in areas such as flexibility, digitization, efficiency and sustainability.

OUR SERVICES

Our services, which are available as required, rangefrom the analysis of the product to the development of suitable digitization and automation strategies, planning support and efficient construction to turnkey commissioning and digital operation. When it comes to Integrated Factory Planning, we always start from the inside and work out. This means that we always keep the focus on your product and design the buildings to suit your production. We also support you as you ramp up production, ensuring stable series production.

We use the latest technologies and work on future-oriented approaches such as the digital twin, because the use of intelligent software not only increases transparency and reusability, but above all facilitates optimization and control of factory and logistics processes. The use of digital twin technology not only makes factory processes more efficient and therefore more competitive, but also leads to a lasting reduction of energy consumption and emissions.We ensure maximum added value – whether you choose a complete package or individual service modules. Services such as carbon neutrality, Cradle to Cradle®, digital twin, Smart Factory and modular construction are fully taken into account along the entire the value chain. And all from a single source.

OUR APPROACH

• We develop a holistic vision of your factory in a joint workshop with you.
• We support you with your site search and with supply chain analysis.
• All relevant stakeholder requirements for the product, process, resources and building are captured in a user requirements specification.
• During the concept and planning support phases, we determine the configuration of the production and assembly facilities including the associated logistics processes. We also establishthe prerequisites for a smart and adaptable factory and examine the importance and impact on people.

We deliver a digital model of the production facilities and the buildings as well as specifications suitable for an invitation to tender.

Systematic supplier and project management on our part ensures the achievement of cost, quality and deadline targets with regard to conveyor, plant and production engineering, logistics and warehousing, and the building.