OPEX FAST RAMP-UP

A global provider of energy management solutions is under considerable cost pressure with one of its plants. In order to maintain the location, measures must be taken to reduce costs in the direct and indirect areas. However, it is unclear where exactly these are to be applied - because there are no starting points for cost reduction or reliable productivity indicators. In this situation, ROI's OPEX Fast Ramp-Up approach provided the basis for a fast and effective identification of cost reduction potentials at the site.

An energy utility wanted to take the performance of its global R&D organization to a new level. Together with ROI, it gained an overall view of the degree of agilisation of the various R&D units and processes. In order to identify the potential for optimzsation, the ROI project team visited the company's various R&D departments and innovation laboratories in Europe, the USA and Asia and conducted interviews with the responsible persons and teams. In addition, it gained valuable insights into the working methods at the sites by observing the most important processes. The results were transferred to a special development and process map for each location. In the end of this "country tour" a very precise best-practice map was created, which showed and visualized the different process models of the development areas. In the next step, the project team was able to derive the most suitable improvement measures from this.