Smart Factory Planning

Your contact

Thomas Rohrbach

Managing Director & Co-Founder

E thomas.rohrbach@neonex.de

A smart factory significantly increases the flexibility and efficiency of production – but getting to a truly smart factory can be a challenge. We accompany your smart factory from the initial idea through the planning process up to the implementation. With modern tools for data evaluation, planning and simulation, we offer a new level of planning reliability.

The value creation of manufacturing companies is more than ever characterized by short product life cycles, decreasing batch sizes and complex supply chains. Many managers are unsure how factory design can meet the changing requirements in the long term. A smart factory, in which the combination of people and digital technologies ensures competitiveness, is the solution. But how do you actually plan a smart factory?

Our proven approach combines application-oriented lean processes with state-of-the-art technologies – in the planning phase and in the actual smart factory. Across the End-2-End process, our experts combine their structural process planning and supply chain know-how with valuable insights from data-based applications. Based on lean principles, digitization provides the link between physical informational and supporting flows. In this way, we help you to develop a future proof and highly competitive factory.

Your path to a Smart Factory

Goals and principles

A clear shared vision of the future factory forms the basis of every smart factory. Your production strategy and initial principles can be derived from this vison, e.g. for the IT infrastructure or the degree of automation you are aiming for. A cost calculation coordinated within the company concludes the first phase of planning.

Vision of the "factory of the future”
Growth strategy and location
Production strategy
Degree of automation
Ideal process logic for in-house production and logistics
Enterprise and IT infrastructure
Data strategy
Cost calculation and feasibility study

Factory layout

Based on an automated value stream mapping, the planning of the factory layout starts. Together, we specify the optimal value stream and space structure, an efficient material flow as well as modern production and logistics processes.

Intelligent value stream design
Determination of the ideal layout variant
Dimensioning and requirements for a key plant and equipment
Real layout variant planning and macro material flow
Comparison of investment and operating cost calculation
Systematic evaluation and selection of the target real layout
Smart factory concept, implementation roadmap

Smart Operations System

After defining the optimal process structure, this step is about the actual design of your Smart Factory. Together with you, we select the future IT infrastructure and technology solutions for process automation and networking in planning, production and logistics. The design of the workstations according to LEAN and SMART principles completes your production system. Detailed 3D planning and the possible addition of VR technology offers you a particularly comprehensible visualization of your future factory.

Smart production and assembly planning and workplace design
Production and warehouse logistics
End-2-End digital use case design and factory intelligence
Production planning and execution, ERP and MES, ...
IIoT, machine networking and process automation
Production system, lean and smart organization, digital store floor management
Supplier selection support, tactical implementation steps

Onboarding and Shopfloor-Management

After the construction and commissioning of the Smart Factory, an integrative onboarding of your employees and managers is an essential step for the acceptance and effective use of your new systems. We guide your employees through the process and anchor an effective system for deviation management in all direct areas.

(Remote) Onboarding: Qualification of employees, establishment of processes
Real-Time Shopfloor Management
Deviation management in direct areas
No-code app implementation for production and logistics

Virtual Management

Congratulations, your Smart Factory is up and running and your vision of a connected and flexible factory has become reality. We are happy to accompany you beyond the original factory planning project in the future development of your factory, e.g. by giving qualification workshops, technology consulting and developing pilot projects for new digital use cases, using state-of-the-art planning and simulation tools.

Technology consulting and qualification of employees
Implementation of pilot projects for our customers
System architecture and data management design
Digital twin use case design and roadmap

Our approach

Not only production itself, but also the process of factory planning is undergoing a transformation: classic approaches and "one-time planning" fall short because the factory is constantly evolving after its initial setup. Therefore, we do not refer to factory planning as a static, to-be-completed task, but as a continuous activity. At NEONEX, we use modern applications from areas such as augmented reality, data analytics and laser scanning from the early planning process on to ensure transparency and speed in decision-making. In other words: Smart right from the start.

The NEONEX factory planning approach follows smart principles - right from the start.

Increase your competitiveness by building a smart factory and opt for smart factory AND smart planning with NEONEX Smart Factory Planning:

Data-based decision making
Integration of all relevant stakeholders
Strong process orientation
Pragmatic implementation plan
High process flexibility
Qualification of internal staff for modern digital tools

Your contact

Thomas Rohrbach

Managing Director & Co-Founder

T +49 178 2902590

E thomas.rohrbach@neonex.de

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Our Services

Digital Strategy

Factory Vision 2025

Develop with us a strong digital vision for your production and use it as a central element of your digital strategy.

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Qualify, inspire and align the Top Management & Core Team

Smart Starter Program

Digital transformation kick-off: Target group-specific qualification and alignment in the areas of Digital Transformation and Smart Factory. Performed completely remote.

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All Business Units

I4.0 EXPERT Education & Training

Book yourself an Industrie 4.0 expert and receive time-efficient and targeted assistance with Skype and telephone coaching for emerging questions and decisions around the topic of digital transformation.

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Our Webinars

Process- and Factory planning in Virtual Reality

Discover applications of VR and 3D scanning

Flexible and efficient assembly layout in VR

A success story about the optimization of assembly at HOMAG