Markets differ and customers often need differing product and service variants. That increases complexity – for production and installation and also for procurement and storage.
That is where complexity management comes to the fore. It aims to utilize standards in the company-internal value chain for as long as possible. Ideally, variants are created as a final step. To do so, the product structure must be defined correctly.
Production technologies and therefore the required machine pool is defined by the envisaged batch sizes. The higher that number, the more capital-intensive the production facility. The experts on RWTH Aachen Campus are highly experienced in configuring machine parks.
Factory planning is more than just the outer shell – it is also the layout of the production facility. The experts in Aachen work with the developer team on the creation of individual series production solutions in accordance with the lean production method.
The transition from prototype to series production sometimes takes more than a single step. Launch management experts at the Innovation Factory assist in coping with intermediate steps.