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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.

Cultural differences between global locations can make it difficult to implement global standards. A ROI project shows how gamification approaches can counteract this.

When lean projects are rolled out globally, one thing counts above all: speed. Against this background, agile methods enable fast scaling.

For complex products with a high variety of variants, stand assembly is still often the method of choice. The example of MAPLAN GmbH shows how things can be different.

On-site management is a central Lean Management instrument. Supported by digital technologies, it becomes a springboard for industry 4.0 deployment in the enterprise.

Lean production is based on complexity reduction. Where it reaches its limits, industry 4.0 elements can enable new levels of efficiency. This effect can be experienced immediately in a simulation.

A Lean Transformation questions essential principles of the learned leadership behavior. In order to optimize processes in the shop floor, psychological resistance in the Management Board must first be overcome.

The key figure-based evaluation of the manufacturing system is one of the first steps in lean projects. In a ROI project for an automotive manufacturer, it became the central game principle.

Lean Production has revolutionised industrial manufacturing. Decades later, the potential seems to be exhausted. Time for the next evolutionary step!

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.

Digital strategies for mechanical engineering

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.

Industry superstars like Amazon show: in addition to increasing efficiency and cutting costs, Logistics 4.0 is also concerned with the adaptation of new technologies and new growth – we call this the mastery of bimodal supply chains.