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Recognising connections

We determine the details of your problem and present it as a holistic system in our tool. During the discussion, the changes and their effects are simulated, focal points are made visible and trends are identified.

• Uncovering the Critical Path
• Better assessment of project risks
• Influence on the system context
• Securing the maximum contribution to earnings

Agile project management

We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambig, i.e. ambiguous world, the VUKA world. In order to work efficiently and successfully in the rapidly changing framework conditions, an agile mindset has developed over the years, on the basis of which a new way of working thrives. We have also adopted this mindset and are constantly working on a new, successful way of working together.

• SCRUM, e.g. in mechanical engineering
• Autonomy for teams
• real responsibility of team members
• Efficiency and effectiveness in product development
• LEAN Principles
• Agile mindset needs strong leadership

Structured approach

The strength of agile ideas is the efficient implementation within the framework of certain degrees of freedom that are left. This creates a common thread for the overall project design and, on the other hand, sufficient space for the free exploitation of possible abbreviations. We are guided by the framework of value management, which gives us exactly this mixture of specifications and freedoms.

• Preparing a project
• Analyzing the object situation
• Describe target state
• Collecting and developing solution ideas
• Compact and evaluate solution ideas
• Realizing the concept

Frontloading

The more thoroughly we start by thinking about and understanding a problem, the higher the quality of the project results will be. As part of the frontloading, we come from the WHY of your customer, your target group and permeate this as deeply as possible in the given time. We need to understand our customers’ WHY better than the customer itself.

• Describe audiences by creating personae or marketing avatars
• Classify basic, performance, and enthusiasm characteristics
• Price performance positioning of our product for competition
• Derive product characteristics, target prices and target costs
• Design thinking for quick testing of product ideas

Systematic success

In order to ensure the success of a project, we use tried-and-tested methods, which we use or do not use depending on the course of the project. By using these methods in a standardized way, we design an efficient project run and at the same time ensure high-quality results.

• Function and Function Cost Analysis
• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Error-Possibility-Influence Analysis (FMEA)
• Value stream analysis and value stream design

Communication as a critical factor

Product and process development is largely communication between different people. Therefore, a project stands and falls with the way of communication within the team, in the collaboration with customers and suppliers and the management leadership. We pay attention to the optimal design of the communication and correct where it becomes necessary. An essential factor is the greatest possible and earliest possible feedback from internal and external customers on all actions initiated. This is the only way to maintain the project’s focus over longer runtimes and in fast-changing environments.

• Obeya, A3 Reports
• Shopfloor management
• Continuous improvements
• Idea management
• Change management

Cost Management

We cannot control what we cannot measure. This applies in particular to the cost of an object. For this purpose, we use powerful software that optimally supports our knowledge of manufacturing technologies and product design. For us, it does not matter whether existing tools that are still to be introduced or used temporarily are possible. We are able to assess the respective cost-benefit ratio. We fundamentally distinguish two approaches.

• Bottom Up, database-supported and detailed on cost break down
• Top Down, mathematical models for revealing focal points

The application area:

• Price structure analysis to prepare for negotiations
• Accompanying development to determine target manufacturing costs