„Plans are nothing, Planning is everything“ (D.D. Eisenhower) – a good plan lays the founding for a successful realization and complete achievement of the project goals. We are a leading consulting company for plant design, simulation-based process design and planning and dimensioning of single work cells or production lines. Through the application of profound expertise and innovative tools for digital process design we provide an efficient and target-oriented planning approach that enables us to ensure that our planning results will work for you. We want to create feasible, innovative and efficient solutions for processes in production and logistics. This goal drives our vast planning efforts and the utilization of state-of-the-art digital planning tools. Together with you we want to achieve the best possible solution in respect of Minimized investment cost Minimized operative process cost Minimized throughput times and stock Maximized quality and customer satisfaction Maximized reliability and process sustainability
Plant design
Greenfield or Brownfield – ifp is your competent partner for the dimensioning and design of plants in all phases of a planning project. After transferring your strategic targets into specific goals for the design phase, we develop various innovative layouts for your production or logistic processes. We apply state-of-the-art digital planning tools to minimize the planning risk and to maximize your operational profitability. Due to our extensive process improvement expertise we are able to design built-in lean production and logistic processes. We are always aiming for the best possible solution for your operative challenges - our tools help us to analyze various alternative concepts easily and quickly. Lean production principles are integrated into our solutions for your operation from the beginning. We ensure for lean and waste-minimized production and logistics already in the planning stage. Material flow optimized layout design Value stream orientation is always the first choice for the design of a lean plant layout. Handling efforts, long and non-transparent material flows influence throughput times and create waste. With the application of our own material flow optimization tool MatFlow© we are able to analyze and optimize the layout based on a material flow performance index. This allows us to analyze alternative material flows neutrally and to quantify possible savings. Digital process design with simulation ifp applies various digita l simulation tools to avoid mistakes in the design of efficient processes and to ensure for a smooth ramp up from the beginning. We apply the discrete event simulation tool PlantSimulation© to optimize processes, to identify bottlenecks and to dimension production and logistic processes in their dynamic environment. The visualization and verification of our results is supported with the 3D-application tool eMWorkplace©. We also apply this tool to carry out detailed ergonomic movement studies, to optimize workstation setups and to reduce stressful movements for your associates. Planning and dimensioning of machines, lines, storage equipment and materials handling technology For an efficient utilization and sufficient ROI of your investment a detailed capacity planning and dimensioning of the required resources is carried out by our engineers. These experts consult you with a detailed research, classification, analysis and selection of machines, facilities, storage equipment or materials handling technology. This also entails comparison of various process alternatives, because we are always looking for the best possible solution. We analyze your processes thoroughly, create alternative concepts and analyze pros and cons of each alternative. Together with your experts we are able to design and realize a perfectly customized and optimized solution for your operational requirements. |
