Concept and Investment Evaluation

Companies which only concentrate on obsolete methods will lose their competitive ability. Today’s market requirements become more and more challenging. Therefore companies have to create product and production structures that can manage these challenges. However, factors like increasing variant diversity, decreasing quantities, higher pressure on costs and pricing create an incredible complexity.

Digital factory means to use existing data and information in the most efficient way. From the very start of product development all work procedures, parts and resources are computer-supported planned and improved concerning their interdependencies. Product development, factory and production planning are accomplished simultaneously – linked by the digital factory.

However it is not enough to use modern software to handle these new challenges. In essence the digital factory is all about processes. It defines new working procedures and guidelines for collaboration and workflows. That is our basis to start with factory simulation and 3D-visualizing.

The results can be measured in numbers. Costs, planning time and start-up time are reduced, quality and maturity of the products are increased. The digital product is not approved for real production until it has successfully completed the digital factory.

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