Digitize in a pragmatic and practical way
Digital competences are becoming a critical success factor for many companies.
They are an indispensable prerequisite, for example, for achieving higher productivity and efficiency through the intelligent production processes of Industry 4.0, for satisfying individual customer wishes more quickly and in a more targeted manner, or for developing entirely new industrial products and business models. Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular have a special need for support and advice in this area.
For one thing, smart-factory solutions help businesses increase the efficiency of their value chain; for another, digital portfolios provide opportunities to leverage the new markets that emerge. Only companies that optimize both of these factors will be winners in the digital transformation. This process not only means new products and services; it will also lead to a transition in traditional market logic. As a result, Germany’s federal ministry of economics intends to establish future-forward rules for the digital economy, sharing economy and digital platforms. It has launched a broad range of discussions to achieve this goal. One of the first outcomes has been the white paper on digital platforms which took the results of the discussion as the basis for presenting concrete suggestions about regulating digital policies.
Staufen AG offers you a pragmatic and methodical introduction. Together with you, we develop practical digital strategies for your company.
Michael Feldmeth
PrincipalSTAUFEN.AG
As an experienced consultant and project manager in the fields of operational excellence and Lean Management, Dr. Michael Feldmeth holds a doctorate in engineering and is a trainer at Staufen Academy. He specializes in mechanical and plant engineering, automotive and vehicle construction, and medical technology. He has extensive expertise in plant development, factory design and in optimizing direct and indirect business processes.
Michael has experience of restructuring in the areas of production (manufacturing and assembly), logistics and order fulfillment, practical Shop Floor experience and a sound technical understanding of production processes.
Digital Expertise is Focused in four Service Clusters and Enhanced by Staufen Lean Methodologies
1. Strategy and Leadership
Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, Smart Enterprise, Digital Project Management, Digital Shopfloor Management (SFM)
3. Digital Analysis
Data Analytics, Process Mining, Big Data
Analysis, Bottleneck Analysis, Data Visualization, Scenario Simulation
2. Enterprise Architecture
Value-Centric-Architecture Framework, Core Systems (ERP, PLM, etc.), Systems of Differentiation (MES, APS, TMS, etc.), IIoT Platforms, Middleware, Edge & Cloud
4. Digital Process Design
Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, Automation, Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) / Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Benchmark Impulses and Transfer
Best Practice Partner, Digital Tour, Knowledge Transfer, Fairs and Events, Knowledge Platforms, Digital Trainings
Enable Your Organization to Achieve Your Tomorrow‘s Objectives
Our Value
Operations Strategy Through Experienced Lean and Digital Experts
Client’s Often Seen Challenges
Lack of clear direction and inspiration
Meaning and enthusiasm among managers and employees is lacking resulting into communication and leadership barriers
Difficulty in achieving strategic goals
Strategic digital directions and digitalization frameworks are not in place to reach operational effectiveness
Misalignment between IT and business
IT strategies and investments do not align with the broader business objectives of
the organization
Our Solutions and Approach
Add normative, strategic and operational levels (e.g. St. Gallen Management Model)
Develop methodical normative target images and their anchoring in the company
Develop structured strategy processes to identify strategic directions
Derive and develop methodical projects through the Hoshin Kanri approach
Strategy and Leadership Guide and Help our Clients to Execute the Defined Digital Vision
Remove Inefficient Information Sharing and Redundant Data Inputs
Our Value
Experienced Team and Network with Business and IT Background
Client’s Often Seen Challenges
Systems are designed for older needs
Systems are old and no longer supporting the today’s problems resulting in poor data quality, availability, security and analysis
Our IT systems do not communicate
Siloed thinking, multiple strategies and deficient support leads to complex and inefficient platform management
Missing Digital End-to-End Vision
Entrepreneurial orientation and differentiation are lacking to be prepared for smart manufacturing
Our Solutions and Approach
Thinking IT systems from business view and needed capabilities and requirements
Analyze and implement data architectures and data governance models
Find the software and implementation partners that support your daily business
Assess risks and value streams to ensure robustness and continuous improvement
Enterprise Architecture is the Foundation for a Digital Transformation
Understand Your Data to Reveal Improvements and Root Causes
Our Value
Data and KPI Driven Decision Making Instead of Qualitative “Gut Feeling”
Client’s Often Seen Challenges
Data analysis and visualization missing
A lot of data is in different systems, but the system’s available data analysis and visualization possibilities are limited
Employees do not trust data
Decision making bases on gut-feeling instead of data and business objectives as the employees do not trust the KPIs
Complex processes and data structures
Process analysis is challenging as processes are complex, many stakeholders are involved, and silos block E2E thinking
Our Solutions and Approach
Solve technical and quality problems by Staufen’s data-driven approach
Derive key metrics and making them available live in the necessary granularity
Model and simulate digital scenarios
(e.g. factory planning)
Analyze company processes and digital traces with tools like process mining
Digital Analysis Enables our Clients to Achieve New Competitive and Profit Advantages
Perform on the Next Level by Making Processes Robust, Flexible And Efficient
Our Value
Process
Understanding and Execution in Various Industries
Client’s Often Seen Challenges
Processes are documented but not lived
Process standards contain current employee and customer requirements
– but mainly on paper
Processes are good but could be better
Processes are partially automated, but it is difficult to react flexibly and timely on customer changes
More output with same input
Production must increase its output, but the number of employees cannot be increased (e.g. shortage of skilled workers)
Our Solutions and Approach
Analyze processes incl. business case for AGV/AMR and flexible production
Evaluate and implement machines by defining an ideal and real state e.g. for RPA
Develop lean digital concepts e.g. for
Mixed/Augmented/Virtual Reality
Identify, create and implement Digital Twin use cases along the entire value stream
Digital Process Design Completes the Fulfillment of a Digital Target Image and Enables Automation
See and Learn about Market Leader’s Digital Processes and Success
Stories
Our Value
Proven
Concepts and Benchmarks for Digital Vision, Strategy and Methods
Client’s Often Seen Challenges
Digitalization Knowledge is hard to get
Inspired leaders and employees with expert knowledge as foundation for successful digitalization projects is missing
State-of–the-art solutions are rare
Benchmarking with leading companies to get practical impulses as critical project inputs are seldom
Vision of what is possible is unclear
Broad and clear picture on digital solutions, methods and success factors are only partly known
Our Solutions and Approach
Experience specialist trainings like Matrix Production or ValueStreamXtended
Share and transfer knowledge in pioneering companies
Benchmark on client tours about digital-ization with impulses and methodologies
Exchange interactively in the Staufen network on the topic of digitalization
Benchmark Impulses and Transfer Support our Clients towards Digital Transformation
OUR PARTNER IN THE FIELD OF DIGITALIZATION
AppliediT‘s is our partner for the digitization of problem solving techniques that progress 100 times faster than conventional industry methods. Leveraging correlations, regressions, and pattern recognition methods, the company offers real-time analysis of production data.
Celonis SE is our partner in the area of Process Mining as well as for the discovery, validation and improvement of workflows by using Data Science.
Evolutionizer Solyp GmbH is our partner in the area of Digital Project Management and Strategy Deployment.
Plavis GmbH is our partner for Digital Factory Planning using the software visTABLE®.
PKF Fasselt Consulting GmbH is our partner for the realization of RPA projects. PKF is a solution partner of the major technology providers AutomationAnywhere and UIPath. In addition, PKF offers a solution on the topic of hyperautomation with its subsidiary Captos GmbH.
Shouldcosting GmbH is our partner in the area of Advanced Analytics with Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data-Mining and Data Stategy.
STAUFEN. ValueStreamer GmbH is our partner for Digital Shop Floor Management and Digital Project Management.
Staufen Study: Digitalization 2024
STAUFEN IS ONE OF THE BEST IN “DIGITALIZATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION”.
This is the result of the renowned industry study “Best Management Consultants 2024” by brand eins and Statista.
There is tremendous potential, especially when operational excellence (OPEX) and digital expertise are combined.
Wilhelm Goschy, Staufen-CEO
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