TOPICS & NEWS

SMART FACTORY 2020 – Intermediate stand on the way to the intelligent factory.

Toasters and refrigerators are transformed into “smart products” that will be controlled by Alexa and Siri in the future. A manufacturer of household appliances realizes: Three years from the first idea to the finished product are too long for that. He consistently upgrades his development team with ROI.

In the search for suitable cooperation models, companies often rely on individual methods and overlook the fact that they have to transform their organization sustainably - a guide to change.

Due to the increased complexity, the processes in product development have become more time-consuming and costly. At the same time, new technologies are speeding up processes considerably - insights into the race for efficiency.

Hardware and software development follow completely different development cycles. Synchronizing them is one of the greatest challenges of smart product development. A new control model provides a remedy.

Over the next 10 years, 90% of industrial products will have a software component. Most development departments are not prepared for this today.

By Hans-Georg Scheibe, Managing Partner, ROI

Inventories are expensive - but at the same time they ensure flexibility. If you want to save costs and ensure high delivery reliability at the same time, you therefore need a systematic approach to dealing with inventory costs.

For a long time, industry 4.0 was regarded as a strategic lighthouse project. In the age of volatile markets, the “Return on I40” is now coming more and more to the fore. We show you how industry 4.0 makes a direct contribution to cost reduction.

A specialty chemicals group must improve its plant availability in a global plant network. The ROI Maintenance Excellence Program provides a fast acting approach.

Organizational structures that have grown or developed through acquisitions usually offer enormous optimization potential. To lift it, the organization often needs to be rethought from scratch.

The more complex the manufacturing environment, the more difficult it is to identify potential cost reductions. New search methods help to identify them.

The problem is not the crisis, but the uncertainty that precedes it. The ability to quickly adapt to volatile markets thus becomes a decisive competitive advantage.

Avoiding waste is the central principle of Lean Management. But in the age of digital abundance, is this still contemporary?

A medium-sized company rents out construction machinery and conveyor systems. In order to digitize equipment rental and make additional services possible, it relies on smart contracts – a blockchain use case.

Modern value-added processes are increasingly dependent on dynamic cooperation. Thomas Müller, CEO & Co-Founder of EVAN GmbH, describes how blockchain technology ensures trust there.

Orientation in times of uncertainty: Six certainties about the Blockchain technology by Dr. Markus Jostock, Founder & Managing Director of ARXUM.

Assumptions about the reception of blockchain technology and the consequences for adaptation. Interview with Dr. Martin Kiel, Codecentric AG/the black frame.

Blockchain technology has the potential to change established patterns in one fell swoop. This applies not only to banks, but also to industry. Their first goal: the supply chain.

A storm is coming: It is the harbinger of a new world whose rules and laws radically differ from our usual ideas - its name: Cryptonia.

Protected active cells of innovation - Welcome to the strategy lab!

Whoever develops a new product should know his target market

Investigation & selection of technology impulses - starting point for the development of digital products and services

Roadmap for the development of a digital product and service business

Map of digital products: Digital products and services are already in demand on the market today.

There is hardly any new growth opportunity in their core business. However, the digital products and services business shows two-digit growth rates.

Let's do the Time Warp! We are traveling a few years into the future and find that order-picking robots are firmly integrated into the Warehouse 4.0 teams.

Tool shed manufacturer BIOHORT is not working without a digital twin in the future

How a digital copy of a gearwheel emerges from its "Component DNA"

New opportunities for a more precise analysis and design of value networks