Sustainability is often promoted as a comprehensive concept that encompasses a company's entire value chain. When sustainability is viewed as a whole, this inevitably also draws attention to the production sites where the products are manufactured.
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The topic of sustainability has been gaining importance in all industry sectors due to increasing regulatory requirements and growing external pressure from stakeholders. Manufacturing companies tend to focus on optimizing their energy consumption and increasing resource efficiency, thus tackling sustainability on the process level. However, only few delve deeper into ensuring their manufactured product is sustainable from its conception. In fact, an estimated 80% of a product’s environmental impacts arise from design decisions.
Read moreA shortage of skilled workers, shorter life cycles, a higher product mix and an increasing degree of personalization are currently presenting manufacturing companies with ever greater challenges. The skill is no longer just to produce a product in large quantities at low costs in a short time, but also to adapt to market fluctuations and new developments as quickly as possible. In order for companies to be successful with these challenges, they need a highly automated and at the same time flexible production.
Read moreEvery company can do a lot to operate more sustainably. This article presents various options for either saving energy or storing it for a later date.
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In a current project of our long-term customer, Torqeedo, the challenge of the project was the variety of possible planning scenarios. The number of scenarios was limited by some restrictions as well as fixed points, but the assignment in this project was nevertheless clearly based on the comparison of possible scenarios.
Read moreBased on our long-standing business relationship with Torqeedo, we received another consulting mandate in January 2021 to oversee the planning of the new company site in Gilching. The core of the project was the consolidation of the manufacturing units of the three existing locations at one new site. By using existing synergies, the cost structure is to be made more efficient in the future.
Read moreBuzzwords like "Smart Factory" or "Digital Twin" are currently all over the media and offer a variety of interesting approaches in the field of digital factory planning. From self-learning and self-communicating systems to autonomous maintenance, there is a wide range of potential application areas in any form and in a variety of industries.
Read moreHardly any other industry in Germany currently records similarly high growth rates as the caravanning industry. With an increase of more than 85 % compared to the same month of the previous year, new registrations of recreational vehicles in Germany in July 2020 reached undreamt-of heights. In order to meet the increased demand, manufacturers of caravans and motorhomes are faced with different challenges in production challenges in the area of efficient production as well as in the consideration of modern materials and digitalization.
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The CORONA crisis still has us firmly in its grip and its effects are not yet fully foreseeable. It is essential for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies to keep up production. On the one hand to maintain their position on the market or on the other hand to simply ensure their own survival. Most important in this situation is the health of the employees and their families. This can only be achieved with appropriate measures.
Read moreDue to the worldwide efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, the European Union has decided to introduce CO2 emission standards for passenger cars from 2020. The obvious way to reduce CO2 emissions from cars seems to be purchsing an electric car, which usually is referred to as BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) or PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle).
Read moreTo master a product segment completely today requires the coverage of all customer requirements. Companies therefore react to this with a high variance in the products they offer. This increases the complexity in almost all areas – from data handling to production, storage and distribution.
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The circular economy act (Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz) enacted by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) on 1 June 2012 aims to promote closed-loop waste management and ensure environmentally sound waste management.
Read more"Diesel affair", a term that most automotive OEMs and suppliers are now shrugging at. Unlike passenger cars, trucks and buses have had to comply with the Euro 6 emissions standard since 2013.
Read moreFor light metal castings with demanding geometries such as cylinder heads, despite the major challenges posed by the upstream cleaning process, remanufacturing is a promising segment from both an economic and an ecological point of view with enormous growth potential.
Read moreFor decades, parts remanufacturing has been a lucrative business for many OEMs and is enjoying ever greater acceptance and demand/popularity among end customers. A distinction must be made between classic reuse, where components are cleaned, measured and put back into circulation, and remanufacturing, where components are disassembled, measured, mechanically processed and re-assembled.
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In order to reproduce or remanufacture complex components, technical component drawings with dimensions, tolerance and surface treatment data are required. This is often not the case if the manufacturer buys the components from third parties – the so-called “black box”.
Read moreThe concept of remanufacturing seems to be lucrative in the automotive spare parts sector, especially for large series production quantities. However, prior to any component project, an economic and technical examination is advisable in order to avoid high process and manufacturing costs for remanufacturing in series.
Read moreAt the end of the assembly of a vehicle in an automotive plant, the vehicle undergoes both a leak test with water applied to the bodywork under high pressure and a washing system for final cleaning before being prepared for transport to the end customer.
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For vehicles with purely electric drive, it is generally assumed that the initial filling with operating media is easier than for derivatives with internal combustion engines – among other things, there is no need to fill up with fuel. But the opposite is true. The integration of an electric vehicle into an existing production line also poses a particular challenge for media filling.
Read moreIn order to satisfy customer demand for low-cost spare parts with a manufacturer’s warranty, automobile manufacturers have been remanufacturing certain vehicle components for years. Such reuse of used parts, however, cannot be validated from a series point of view.
Read moreAt a time when sustainability and economy are no longer mutually exclusive, the reprocessing of valuable components is becoming increasingly important in the automotive industry. In recent years, high expectations of a sustainable parts chain and a low-cost customer offering have become increasingly noticeable and continue to grow.
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