ifp Consulting

• Are you considering purchasing/planning a new factory?
• Do you want to redesign your logistics network?
• Do you want to optimize your internal production processes?
• Do you need a detailed technical status evaluation report before reaching a decision?
• Are you looking for a component partner to realize your projects?

We are the right people to help you: In the context of a technical due diligence, ifp consulting undertakes a comprehensive, standardized and efficient analysis of the property concerned.

Regardless of whether you are building a new factory or want to renovate your existing factory, we will assist you at every stage of planning – from definition of objectives to a concept worked out in detail.

We do planning of factories always based on our basic principle of 3 A's: 

AGILE, ADAPTIVE and ANTIZIPATIVE!

• Consistent and sustainable master plan and work structure plan
• Design of efficient production and assembly processes
• Optimization of material flows and in-house logistics processes
• Innovative concepts for machines, systems, warehousing and materials handling technology
• Layout optimized to suit material-flow
• Simulation-supported optimization of process sequences
• Digital factory planning

We will discover the answers to all the important questions that have to be assessed neutrally and expertly before the purchase of any property.

• What production capacity can be expected?
• What is the technical condition of the systems and machines?
• Where can automation concepts be applied in future?
• What level of quality will be achieved?
• Could production be expanded

Many of the long-term benefits from product lifecycle management (PLM) cannot be achieved without a comprehensive digital manufacturing strategy. Digital manufacturing is a key point of integration between PLM and various shop floor applications and equipment, enabling the exchange of product-related information between design and manufacturing groups. This alignment allows manufacturing companies to achieve their time-to-market and volume goals, as well as realize cost savings by reducing expensive downstream changes.

Digital manufacturing is the use of an integrated, computer-based system comprised of simulation, three-dimensional (3D) visualization, analytics and various collaboration tools to create product and manufacturing process definitions simultaneously. Digital manufacturing evolved from manufacturing initiatives such as design for manufacturability (DFM), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), flexible manufacturing, lean manufacturing and others that highlight the need for more collaborative product and process design.

Benefits of Digital Manufacturing

Digital manufacturing can help manufacturing companies improve their productivity in both manufacturing planning and production processes.

• Digital manufacturing enables product, process, plant and resource information to be associated, viewed and taken through change processes, with a consistent and comprehensive approach to production design.
• Digital manufacturing allows part manufacturing processes to be optimized within a managed environment. You can produce flexible work instructions capable of displaying 2D/3D part information, along with the machining and tooling instructions.
• The simulation capabilities of digital manufacturing help reduce commissioning costs by validating robotics and automation programs virtually.
• Using digital manufacturing, you can create factory models faster and ensure that they are operating under optimal layout, material flow and throughput before production ramp-up.
• Digital manufacturing can be used to support six-sigma and lean initiatives, by providing a graphical environment to analyze dimensional variation.
• Digital manufacturing systems facilitate the sharing quality data across your organization by generating complete, verifiable CAD-based machine inspection programs for coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and numerical control (NC) machine tools.
• Digital manufacturing allows you to execute production processes with real-time access to lifecycle data.