Our sector know-how in management consulting
For 30 years now, we have specialised in technology-intensive sectors – sectors requiring skills in all areas of engineering and natural sciences and expertise in economics.
- Automotive & components industries
- Transport engineering & rail industry
- Infrastructure & operating companies
- Machinery & plant engineering
- Electrical engineering and information technology
- Technical services & service sector
Each of these market segments differs considerably from the others – from extremely short product life cycles and comparatively large volumes in highly competitive markets to multi-year durations of large-scale projects with public sector involvement. Nevertheless, findings from many of the issues involved in one segment or industry can equally well be applied to others. That is what makes our profession so exciting.
Automotive & components industries
Our company’s roots are in the automotive industry. Our founder was a long-serving member of the board of BMW as head of R&D and held other executive board positions with international automotive component suppliers. Today, our consultants support car manufacturers and their suppliers and sales companies. The issues involved range from customer and market requirements to translation into product concepts and their implementation. The standard of quality and reliabilty of the products delivered by the automotive industry serves as an example for many other industries.
- Product/ market analyses
- Technology trend analyses
- Project management and target costing in product development/li>
- Quality assurance/ planning prior to series production
- Creating value-added partnerships
- Strategic location search and development
Transport engineering & rail industry
Customer satisfaction, liberalisation, cost pressure and high availability of production assets are the challenges facing transport engineering & rail sectors. Long service lives of the production assets used, cost-intensive maintenance regimes and dynamically changing market situations require flexibility and permanent control of human and capital resources.
- Production assets strategy
- Standardisation of production system maintenance
- Condition-based maintenance strategies on the basis of diagnostic systems
- Big data analytics/ field data management
- Digital control and safety systems
- New approaches in qualification
Infrastructure & operating companies
The participation of the public and citizens’ involvement are ongoing trends in today’s society. Lengthy planning and approval procedures have to be reconciled with ever-shorter life cycles of technical products and components. Major infrastructure projects are extemely individual. Successful implementation in infrastructure projects requires innovative and tailored solutions in planning, financing, construction and management.
- Preparatory processing of complex aspects of engineering planning
- Project management and quality assurance of all construction work and related services
- Risk assessments and project controlling
- Roll-out management of new technologies
- Production planning and control strategies
- Predictive maintenance concepts
Machinery & plant engineering
Machinery & plant engineering today is characterised by high standards in many different engineering disciplines. The mechatronic systems we find there contain an increasingly high proportion of electronics and information technology. Our clients produce in volumes ranging from one unit to several hundred thousand units of one product type per year. And this is precisely where the challenge lies in mastering the conflicting mix of product complexity, quality and costs. Our consultants’ experience in industry enables them to contribute expertise and experience in all engineering disciplines to their project work.
- Modularisation and standardisation
- Quality assurance prior to series production
- Development of electronics technology as a key competency
- Condition-based maintenance strategies and technologies
- Material flow and storage optimisation
- Strategic location search and selection
Electrical engineering and information technology
Global competition, cyclical markets and rapid technological change characterise the electrical engineering and IT sectors. Only companies with innovativeness, operational excellence and a global presence can survive in this environment in the long term. Electronic components and modules, industrial electronics and industrial automation have been part of our core service fields since our company was founded. Hardly any other segment will revolutionise industry to the same extent as this technological sector in the coming years.
- Target costing and value analysis
- Digitalisation of production processes
- Quality assurance prior to series production of electronic systems
- Field data diagnosis and control of field elements
- Error pattern analysis and deduction of condition-based maintenance measures
- Definition of triggering and intervention thresholds
Technical services & service sector
Technical services are characterised by high growth potential. Industrial services are an essential element in manufacturing companies’ value chains. Tight budgets, cost and efficiency pressures and demographic effects are among the reasons for the growth of partnerships between industry and their technical service providers.
- Product/ market and competitor analyses
- Offering structures and portfolio analyses
- Outsourcing concepts
- Project management
- Predictive maintenance
- Guidance for parametrised service-level agreements
- Automotive & components industries
- Transport engineering & rail industry
- Infrastructure & operating companies
- Machinery & plant engineering
- Electrical engineering and information technology
- Technical services & service sector
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