Holistic factory design for the food industry

We design your supply chain to be efficient and future-proof, taking full account of your particular strategic issues – through sound network planning and precise value stream analyses. We support you in developing and validating your business case and accompany you from the concept phase right through to the decision. 

We are your expert partner when it comes to sourcing and committing to a location. We support you in evaluating potential locations both from the economic and technical standpoints and create a basis for decision-making that ensures long-term efficiency and competitiveness.

We develop a comprehensively coordinated strategic concept as a foundation for sound investment decisions. We combine production, logistics and IT structures to create an integrated overall approach – we use both data and requirements to develop the most economically and technically efficient solutions.

Whitepaper Master planning // plus

Master planning lays the foundation for successful new construction, conversion or expansion projects for production sites. We develop holistic designs through feasibility studies and early planning phases that harmonize cost-effectiveness and resource efficiency. The aim is to make optimum use of existing buildings and infrastructure, optimize production layouts and minimize the need for additional building space.

Whitepaper Master Planning // plus

We support you in preparing and evaluating your investment decisions. We use business value analyses to inform decision-making principles that minimize your risks and open up growth potential. This allows you to make investments that measurably advance your goals.

We design and optimize your production networks with a view to harmonizing costs, throughput times and delivery capability. We use data-based analyses and scenarios to evaluate alternative network structures, define optimum production depths and support the implementation of your production strategies. This enables you to achieve transparency, resilience and greater competitiveness in your global production network.

As lead consultant, we offer you all planning services from a single source – from strategic conception to operational implementation. We pursue a comprehensive planning approach that integrates production, logistics and location planning to secure end-to-end processes. Closely integrating all disciplines results in efficient, transparent and sustainable overall systems that combine economic and technical excellence.

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We fully document your projects in line with your specific requirements. 

We carry out structured concept reviews to scrutinize your ideas and solutions for potential, risks and feasibility at an early stage. Our experienced team can analyze strengths and weaknesses, provide constructive feedback and support you in the optimization process – ensuring safe decisions and successful projects right from the start.

We support you as a solid partner in all phases of your project – from the initial analysis and strategic consulting to Lead Consulting from a single source. We assume overall responsibility as lead consultant for planning and coordinating your construction or industrial project.

You benefit from a central point of contact who covers all specialist disciplines – we go beyond the classic lead consulting remit of construction projects to combine the areas of production, logistics, IT with building and infrastructure planning. Our approach guarantees seamless coordination of all planning services, minimizes interfaces and ensures transparency, efficiency and security throughout the entire course of the project.

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In the detailed planning phase, the solution previously decided upon is developed into a viable project ready for approval. We clarify the technical details, specify layouts and define all relevant interfaces between production, logistics and the other trades involved. 

Our team creates the conditions for smooth implementation and accompanies your project through to successful approval – professionally, technically and in the whole organization. This is how we ensure that your planning is not only conceptually sound, but also feasible in practice.

We coordinate the complete compilation of all services and trades for the realization of your project in the tendering and contracting phase. We accompany the entire search process – from preparing meaningful tender documents to evaluating tenders and recommending the best tender.

At the same time, we prepare the implementation planning and set everything in place for efficient project implementation. In this way, we ensure that quality, deadlines and costs remain in line and that your clearly defined project moves onto the implementation stage.

The implementation plan phase is about us translating the approved design into detailed technical planning documents. We specify all relevant structural, production and logistical requirements, define interfaces and ensure that all trades are ready for implementation.

Our team ensures that planning and implementation interlock seamlessly. Clear structuring, coordinated processes and precise project management means we can ensure that everything is implemented smoothly – on time, to the right quality and on budget.

We use BIM (Building Information Modeling) at io as a model-based, digital planning method to holistically record and network all relevant building, plant and infrastructure data and make it usable over the entire life cycle.

BIM enables precise clash detection, improves coordination between all project participants and makes for more efficiency in planning and execution. The result is transparent processes, consistent data and a reliable basis to successfully realize demanding projects.

During the implementation phase, our focus is on ensuring that your planning is professionally implemented. We coordinate all the partners involved, manage deadlines and costs and ensure the quality of execution.

Our experienced project management team accompanies your project from construction supervision to commissioning. Our objective is a smooth implementation, in which all services are delivered on time and to the quality standards required – for a successful start to your new production environment.

We take on responsibility for professionally coordinating all trades and suppliers for your project. We ensure a smooth workflow and high-quality implementation, from detailed planning to coordinating interfaces and the management of all processes.

We ensure that all services are provided on time, at optimum cost and in accordance with your project’s requirements through active dialog with all project partners, clearly structured processes and exploitation of modern management and planning tools.

With our project management team at your side, the comprehensive planning, control and implementation of your construction project runs effortlessly. Our experienced team is responsible for achieving targets in terms of costs, deadlines and quality, coordinates the entire project team and keeps an overview on all activities throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Project management

We develop integrated hygiene protocols that meet all relevant food industry standards – from IFS and HACCP to ISO 22000. The focus is on protection against microbial, chemical and physical risks, ensuring flawless product quality and compliance with all legal and customer-specific requirements.

Modern factory design relies on the use of the latest digital technologies to make production sites flexible, efficient and future-proof. Material flows, production processes and entire factory layouts can be virtually mapped, tested and optimized as early as the planning phase by exploiting digital twins, individual simulations, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) – before any actual real investments have been made.

We are at your side to support you in implementing your optimization measures quickly, efficiently and on budget. Our projects are based on proven methods such as Lean Management, Six Sigma and CIP in combination with the use of modern digital tools and technologies. A key success factor is involving your employees in the change process early. This helps create a culture of continuous improvement and teamworking based on partnership and mutual trust. 

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