Category Archives: Strategy & Automation

How to make your business profitable in stagnating and shrinking markets with the right product and production strategy

Technological change, intensified competition, and ever shorter product life cycles as well as rapidly changing [...]

Production Footprint: Economic Success Requires Resilient Production Networks

The vulnerability of production and supply networks has come into particular focus in recent years, [...]

“Farm to Fork” part 2: cutting costs through machine learning in the bakery

Always baking the right rolls: cutting costs through machine learning in the bakery Every year, [...]

Industry 4.X – An operational and strategic challenge

Industry 4.0 is the term that stands for the digitization of industrial production processes. Big [...]

How automation, international trade conflicts and COVID-19 are changing production networks and the production footprint

The success factors of international production networks – global access to low-cost production sites, overcoming [...]

Digital transformation: Taking advantage of the opportunities of digitization and automation in production

Industry 4.0 and IoT are buzzwords for the transition from analog centralized procedures to fully [...]

Medium-sized German companies are still forgoing digitization opportunities

According to the 2018 digitization report of the German development bank KfW, the digitization of [...]

Industry 4.0 requires leadership greater than 1.0

In the world of Industry 4.0, digitization is supposed to generate significant efficiency raises and [...]