Process consulting Together, we will design and optimize your control cabinet building processes along the entire value chain. As your partner, we will support you with practice-oriented methods and individually developed solutions for greater efficiency.

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Process optimization along the value chain

Every single process step in the value chain for control cabinet building
holds potential for optimization – from the planning and engineering of the project
through logistics, the assembly and marking of terminal strips to the wiring and commissioning of the control cabinet.

With our partnership-based, long-term optimization strategy, we look at your individual need for action and address challenges ranging from a shortage of skilled workers to cost reductions and efficiency and productivity improvements.

Your advantages

  • Partnership-based concept development and implementation for fast, sustainable, and measurable success
  • An experienced team of experts for optimization projects ranging from an individual workstation to the entire production process
  • Individually scalable approaches for examining (digital) processes and production resources right down to the product used
  • Empowering employees through training to ensure sustainable methodological expertise within the company
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Partnership-based approach and methodical consulting concept

Our partnership-based approach provides you with custom consulting services to optimize your process chain in control cabinet building using practice-oriented lean production methods. This allows significant savings through processes that can be implemented rapidly with little financial outlay.

The process consulting services are based on years of experience with lean production methods and include a comprehensive portfolio of consulting activities and training programs for employees. In order to combine our methodological expertise with the process expertise of your employees, it is very important for us to carry out the activities with you and your employees. In this way, we will not only create new impetus together, but also achieve sustainable and lasting results in the long term.

Methods for process optimization

Value stream analysis diagram
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Example of factory planning with visTABLE® software
Employees building a workstation in line with the cardboard engineering method
Man doing shop floor management at a board
Person assembling a terminal strip as per the instructions provided in the worker assistance software
Value stream analysis diagram

The material and data flow, from planning to delivery of the finished control cabinet, will be analyzed in detail with you and the optimization potential will be visualized.

Two employees in a 5S workshop

Together with your employees, we will design the workshop in accordance with the 5S principles and develop a process to increase the transparency and structure.

Example of factory planning with visTABLE® software

Factory planning involves the joint development of an individual material-flow-optimized production layout to increase efficiency, flexibility, and adaptability.

Employees building a workstation in line with the cardboard engineering method

Based on an analysis of all the production steps and in line with the cardboard engineering method, with our training your employees will design the workstations as prototypes and simulate the production process. We will then support you in the realization of these innovative and customized workstations.

Man doing shop floor management at a board

We will support you in adopting a system for daily regular communication with your employees – both in the workshop and in the office – as a building block for the continuous improvement process.

Person assembling a terminal strip as per the instructions provided in the worker assistance software

Our experts will advise you on item and interface management to create data consistency right through to production.

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Digital process design

Based on the analysis of all the production steps, working together with our experts your employees will design the digital process flows in close coordination with the production process. We will then support you in the realization of these innovative and customized digital processes. We will integrate interfaces from existing and future applications and close any remaining gaps with individually developed solutions.

The combination of employee knowledge, practical lean methods, and an outside perspective is the key to sustainable process optimization.

Christoph Marten - Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG, Expert for lean methodology
Christoph Marten

Your partner from quick check to implementation and beyond

Right from the initial inspection of your company, we look at the potential offered by your engineering and production operations for the optimization of your control cabinet building. In a quick check, we record and analyze the current situation together.

Our consulting service provides much more than a recommendation for optimization – together we develop solutions, implement them, and ensure that the results are not just achieved in the short term. Our goal is to ensure that the successful results of optimization in your processes are sustainable.

Three steps to sustainable process optimization

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Employees working on process optimization in control cabinet building
Sustainability check in process optimization
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We will work with you to evaluate and analyze the process chain from receipt of the order through the production process in the workshop to delivery, and we will identify the segments that need attention. Based on the quick check, we can develop a suitable approach for process optimization with you.

Employees working on process optimization in control cabinet building

In an in-depth actual state analysis, we look at the processes and product structures. Based on this analysis, an optimization concept is developed using lean principles and digital solutions. Together, we turn the concept into real solutions and implement them in your company.

Sustainability check in process optimization

Once the process optimization measures have been implemented, we plan the next steps to check whether the effectiveness of the measures is sustained over a longer period of time.

Process optimization in control cabinet building brochure
Shaping and optimizing processes together
From engineering through to production – we will help you make your control cabinet building as efficient as possible. Find out in our brochure how our experts have worked with selected customers to sustainably shape and optimize their processes.
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