Factory concepts and rough layout planning

Often, initial ideas of what the future factory or redesign of the existing production facility should look like already exist at the beginning of a planning project. There are no limits to creativity. But there is a wide range between creative design approaches and functional factory planning.

Conceptual planning serves within the factory planning to develop and compare different factory structure options. The focus is particularly on:

• Development of target processes (value stream mapping)
• Development of an ideal functional diagram
• Selecting the Appropriate Production Concept
  (Workshop Production vs. Cell Production vs. Assembly Line Production)
• Design and dimensioning of different real factory structure variants
• Creative block layout development with digital support from an innovative touch planning table
• Material flow simulation with the latest digital tools
• Structured and transparent evaluation of variants based on quantitative and qualitative criteria

The development of basic plant concepts and visualization, initially at the block layout level, are the core of this phase. These variants are created based on the defined TARGET processes and the dimensioning of all relevant areas.

In preparation, automation concepts for assembly and logistics (e.g. AutoStore, shuttle warehouse, assembly robot, human-robot collaboration) are reviewed for their customer-specific suitability. The development of possible plant structure variants takes into account all building, production, process and quality-related restrictions as well as future requirements. In the next step, these variants are compared with the help of a technical-economic utility analysis. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation criteria are taken into account for this purpose. The evaluation of the variant comparison determines idealplant concept at block layout level as well as the future rough material flow.

Our factory planning experts will assist you with preliminary planning

• Manufacturing concept
• Assembly concept
• Layout Planningg
• Logistics Planning
• Inventory Planning
• Intralogistics Planning