Have you fully tapped into all the potentials of your products and processes? Are your processes and products truly "innovative"? How do you respond to new trends and technologies? Is your organization adaptable? Are you a technology leader or follower?
We assist you with our knowledge not only in innovation and technology scouting, but also in identifying potentials within your domain, and implementing them into your product and process landscape.
We work together on developing concepts for profitable and sustainable optimization and substitution strategies. This will include reducing multi-stage manufacturing processes, integrating advanced production technologies (e.g. additive manufacturing), deriving production designs that optimize time, costs, and quality. Furthermore, it will entail the utilization of recycling and remanufacturing, and implementing predictive maintenance concepts, among others.
Drawing on our extensive experience, we assist you in creating synergies such as developing series and modular strategies, engineering optimized tolerance chains across value-added stages, and more.
We are your reliable partner in overcoming historically established process structures towards achieving your "Innovative Excellence"!
Our services
- Facilitation of creative workshops
- Evaluation of product lifecycle (Life-Cycle Engineering) for sustainable potential analysis
- Material structure analysis
- Target-specific requirement analyses considering:
- Markets (regulatory, intercultural regulations)
- Generational specifics
- Trends over time
- Technology scouting
- Practical evaluation methods, utility value analyses, success measurement
- Feasibility analyses
- Evaluations against state-of-the-art and research
- Inventory and assessment of the current state
- Development of action areas, prioritization for short, medium, and long-term measures
- Support for production and product testing phases
Benefits for our clients
- Recycling, refurbishment, recovery, and disposal strategies
- Substitution strategies
- Maintenance and repair strategies
- Expertise in developing:
- Smart products through sensor integration
- Predictive maintenance concepts
- Production-friendly manufacturing process derivations
- Reduction of:
- Necessary process steps
- Resource-intensive or environmentally/ economically inefficient manufacturing processes
- Integration of innovative production technologies
- Optimization of automation levels
- Portfolio optimization to leverage synergies, e.g., series and modular strategies
These benefits empower our clients to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness across their operations.
What does innovation and technology management have to do with strategy?
According to the literature, one can approach the topic of innovation and technology management through various definitions. From its literal meaning, it describes "mastering (= management) knowledge of technology, thereby creating innovations." Based on our understanding, we challenge established structures with our clients, thus enabling positive differentiation factors across multiple dimensions (country, culture, market, customer, organization, processes, products, etc.).
"Innovationen arise whenever we overcome technical and organizational resistances." (Maximilian Rosilius, Senior Consultant T&O)
For this, various prerequisites must be met. Among them, there needs to be a demand for innovation (from the market/customer) and consequently a desire for change (mindset) within an organization. Furthermore, creativity is a key factor in generating new ideas. Additionally, there must be a necessary infrastructure (organization) to translate ideas into prototypes and further into products, services, or processes.
This theoretical discourse vividly outlines the complex challenges companies are facing. We assist you in strategic alignment, develop prerequisites with you, conduct evidence-based studies and feasibility assessments, and provide professional and methodological support throughout the concrete implementation process.