Digitize in a pragmatic and practical way

Digital competences are becoming a critical success factor for many companies.

They are an indispensable prerequisite, for example, for achieving higher productivity and efficiency through the intelligent production processes of Industry 4.0, for satisfying individual customer wishes more quickly and in a more targeted manner, or for developing entirely new industrial products and business models. Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular have a special need for support and advice in this area.

For one thing, smart-factory solutions help businesses increase the efficiency of their value chain; for another, digital portfolios provide opportunities to leverage the new markets that emerge. Only companies that optimize both of these factors will be winners in the digital transformation. This process not only means new products and services; it will also lead to a transition in traditional market logic. As a result, Germany’s federal ministry of economics intends to establish future-forward rules for the digital economy, sharing economy and digital platforms. It has launched a broad range of discussions to achieve this goal. One of the first outcomes has been the white paper on digital platforms which took the results of the discussion as the basis for presenting concrete suggestions about regulating digital policies.

Staufen AG offers you a pragmatic and methodical introduction. Together with you, we develop practical digital strategies for your company.

Your Contact
Michael Feldmeth

Michael Feldmeth

Project Manager

STAUFEN.AG

Phone: '+49 7024 8056 0

E-Mail: kontakt@staufen.ag

Digital Expertise is Focused in four Service Clusters and Enhanced by Staufen Lean Methodologies

1. Strategy and Leadership

Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, Smart Enterprise, Digital Project Management, Digital Shopfloor Management (SFM)

3. Digital Analysis

Data Analytics, Process Mining, Big Data
Analysis, Bottleneck Analysis, Data Visualization, Scenario Simulation

2. Enterprise Architecture

Value-Centric-Architecture Framework, Core Systems (ERP, PLM, etc.), Systems of Differentiation (MES, APS, TMS, etc.), IIoT Platforms, Middleware, Edge & Cloud 

4. Digital Process Design

Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, Automation, Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) / Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), Digital Twin, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Benchmark Impulses and Transfer

Best Practice Partner, Digital Tour, Knowledge Transfer, Fairs and Events, Knowledge Platforms, Digital Trainings

Enable Your Organization to Achieve Your Tomorrow‘s Objectives

Our Value

Operations Strategy Through Experienced Lean and Digital Experts

Client’s Often Seen Challenges

Lack of clear direction and inspiration
Meaning and enthusiasm among managers and employees is lacking resulting into communication and leadership barriers

Difficulty in achieving strategic goals
Strategic digital directions and digitalization frameworks are not in place to reach operational effectiveness

Misalignment between IT and business
IT strategies and investments do not align with the broader business objectives of
the organization

Our Solutions and Approach

Add normative, strategic and operational levels (e.g. St. Gallen Management Model)

Develop methodical normative target images and their anchoring in the company

Develop structured strategy processes to identify strategic directions

Derive and develop methodical projects through the Hoshin Kanri approach

Strategy and Leadership Guide and Help our Clients to Execute the Defined Digital Vision

Remove Inefficient Information Sharing and Redundant Data Inputs

Our Value

Experienced Team and Network with Business and IT Background

Client’s Often Seen Challenges

Systems are designed for older needs
Systems are old and no longer supporting the today’s problems resulting in poor data quality, availability, security and analysis

Our IT systems do not communicate
Siloed thinking, multiple strategies and deficient support leads to complex and inefficient platform management

Missing Digital End-to-End Vision
Entrepreneurial orientation and differentiation are lacking to be prepared for smart manufacturing

Our Solutions and Approach

Thinking IT systems from business view and needed capabilities and requirements

Analyze and implement data architectures and data governance models  

Find the software and implementation partners that support your daily business

Assess risks and value streams to ensure robustness and continuous improvement

Enterprise Architecture is the Foundation for a Digital Transformation

Understand Your Data to Reveal Improvements and Root Causes

Our Value

Data and KPI Driven Decision Making Instead of Qualitative “Gut Feeling”

Client’s Often Seen Challenges

Data analysis and visualization missing
A lot of data is in different systems, but the system’s available data analysis and visualization possibilities are limited

Employees do not trust data
Decision making bases on gut-feeling instead of data and business objectives as the employees do not trust the KPIs

Complex processes and data structures
Process analysis is challenging as processes are complex, many stakeholders are involved, and silos block E2E thinking

Our Solutions and Approach

Solve technical and quality problems by Staufen’s data-driven approach 

Derive key metrics and making them available live in the necessary granularity

Model and simulate digital scenarios
(e.g. factory planning)

Analyze company processes and digital traces with tools like process mining

Digital Analysis Enables our Clients to Achieve New Competitive and Profit Advantages

Perform on the Next Level by Making Processes Robust, Flexible And Efficient

Our Value

Process
Understanding and Execution in Various Industries

Client’s Often Seen Challenges

Processes are documented but not lived
Process standards contain current employee and customer requirements
– but mainly on paper

Processes are good but could be better
Processes are partially automated, but it is difficult to react flexibly and timely on customer changes

More output with same input
Production must increase its output, but the number of employees cannot be increased (e.g. shortage of skilled workers)

Our Solutions and Approach

Analyze processes incl. business case for AGV/AMR and flexible production

Evaluate and implement machines by defining an ideal and real state e.g. for RPA

Develop lean digital concepts e.g. for
Mixed/Augmented/Virtual Reality

Identify, create and implement Digital Twin use cases along the entire value stream

Digital Process Design Completes the Fulfillment of a Digital Target Image and Enables Automation

See and Learn about Market Leader’s Digital Processes and Success
Stories

Our Value

Proven
Concepts and Benchmarks for Digital Vision, Strategy and Methods

Client’s Often Seen Challenges

Digitalization Knowledge is hard to get
Inspired leaders and employees with expert knowledge as foundation for successful digitalization projects is missing

State-of–the-art solutions are rare
Benchmarking with leading companies to get practical impulses as critical project inputs are seldom

Vision of what is possible is unclear
Broad and clear picture on digital solutions, methods and success factors are only partly known

Our Solutions and Approach

Experience specialist trainings like Matrix Production or ValueStreamXtended

Share and transfer knowledge in pioneering companies

Benchmark on client tours about digital-ization with impulses and methodologies

Exchange interactively in the Staufen network on the topic of digitalization

Benchmark Impulses and Transfer Support our Clients towards Digital Transformation

OUR PARTNER IN THE FIELD OF DIGITALIZATION

AppliediT‘s is our partner for the digitization of problem solving techniques that progress 100 times faster than conventional industry methods. Leveraging correlations, regressions, and pattern recognition methods, the company offers real-time analysis of production data.

Celonis SE is our partner in the area of Process Mining as well as for the discovery, validation and improvement of workflows by using Data Science.

Evolutionizer Solyp GmbH is our partner in the area of Digital Project Management and Strategy Deployment.

Plavis GmbH is our partner for Digital Factory Planning using the software visTABLE®.

PKF Fasselt Consulting GmbH is our partner for the realization of RPA projects. PKF is a solution partner of the major technology providers AutomationAnywhere and UIPath. In addition, PKF offers a solution on the topic of hyperautomation with its subsidiary Captos GmbH.

Shouldcosting GmbH is our partner in the area of Advanced Analytics with Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data-Mining and Data Stategy.

STAUFEN. ValueStreamer GmbH is our partner for Digital Shop Floor Management and Digital Project Management.

Digitalization Study

Staufen Study: Digitalization 2024

STAUFEN IS ONE OF THE BEST IN “DIGITALIZATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION”.

This is the result of the renowned industry study “Best Management Consultants 2024” by brand eins and Statista.

award beste berater 2024 DE Digitalisierung

There is tremendous potential, especially when operational excellence (OPEX) and digital expertise are combined.

Wilhelm Goschy, Staufen-CEO

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