Use case 01 · Mechanisation & implementation
Design of mechanisation and automation
“We want to mechanise, but we don’t know which solution fits our volume and process, what it costs and what it delivers — and we don’t want to depend on one integrator selling its own hardware.”
Who it is for
Manufacturing and logistics companies facing a major mechanisation or automation investment — fresh/food, retail distribution, e-fulfilment, manufacturing industry.
Solution
We know the mechanisation applications for every logistics activity — goods-to-person, AMRs, conveyors, AS/RS, shuttles, sorters, robotics — including suppliers, prices and limitations. We design the layout, build a business case per sub-process and select the suppliers.
Outcome
A substantiated design with a business case per sub-process — investment, FTE reduction, payback period and NPV — before a single euro of hardware is ordered. Independent: the best solution, not the one a supplier happens to sell.
From practice
In a feasibility study at a fresh food processor , each of five sub-processes got its own business case: investments of €1.4–20 million and payback periods of 1.5–3 years. All sub-processes turned out to pay back within 3 years, better than the expected 4. At a packaging wholesaler , we first weighed three directions: expansion, outsourcing or a new build.
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Is this your challenge?
In two to four workshops we jointly establish where the greatest value lies, which technology fits and which business case is realistic.
We orchestrate your operational transformation. From technology to a working operation — for over 30 years.
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