Production consulting
Restructure production systems and improve performance
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Consulting services for production and logistics
From strategy and analysis through system design and digital site capture to implementation support.
In brief
The industrial consulting services of Bross Consulting GmbH cover the planning, optimization and digitalization of production and logistics systems. From its offices in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin-Schönefeld, the company plans factories, warehouses and production logistics along the phase structure of VDI 5200. The services range from feasibility study through general planning to realization and commissioning, and fall into five fields: consulting, planning, optimization, digitalization and automation. Every recommendation rests on data, not on experience alone.
Consulting
Before any building work comes the directional decision: which value creation stays in-house, how production is set up, how the logistics network works, where digitalization pays off. Bross advises on this in production consulting, manufacturing strategy, logistics consulting and digitization consulting.
Manufacturing strategy
Align make-or-buy decisions, technologies and sites
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Logistics consulting
Align networks, processes and supply systems
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Digitization consulting
Prioritize roadmaps, use cases and implementation
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The core of the work: laying out factories, assembly lines, warehouses and logistics systems spatially and structurally — from setting objectives through assessed variants to an implementation-ready layout.
Factory planning
New build, expansion, layout
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Assembly planning
Lines, takt, workstations
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Logistics planning
Intralogistics, supply, concept
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Warehouse planning
Capacity, space, structure
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Measurably improving existing operations: mapping material and value streams, revealing bottlenecks and waste, reconstructing processes from system data. Alongside material flow analysis, this includes value stream analysis and process mining consulting.
Material flow analysis
Combine analysis, simulation and optimization
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Value stream analysis
Analyze lead times, inventory and waste
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Process mining consulting
Reveal actual process variants from system data
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Digitalization
Digital access to the existing plant: from 3D site capture through planning-ready digital factory models to the continuously maintained digital twin of the factory. These services support factory planning rather than creating a competing planning process.
3D scanning and virtual factory tour
Capture, walk through, measure and document facilities in the browser
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Digital factory models
Turn scan data into a planning-ready 3D model
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Digital twin
Connect geometry, processes and operational data
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Automating warehousing and transport, both physically and in terms of information: warehouse management systems, automated guided vehicles, storage technology and conveyor technology — from selection through requirements specification to commissioning.
Warehouse management systems
Plan requirements, selection and implementation
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Automated guided vehicles
Plan AGV and AMR routes, fleets and interfaces
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Storage technology
Design racking, shuttle and picking technology
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Conveyor technology
Design conveyors and in-plant transport systems
Learn moreProject support
Bross Consulting supports projects not only during planning but across the entire project. At the outset there is often a feasibility study: it examines whether a site, an expansion or a relocation is technically and economically viable before larger funds are committed. If the results hold, Bross takes on the general planning on request — end-to-end responsibility for concept, detailed design and the coordination of the trades involved, so that clients have a single point of contact for the overall result.
As the project progresses, project management and a PMO steer schedules, costs and interfaces and keep decisions traceable. A plant relocation is planned so that ongoing operations are disrupted as little as possible — from the move sequence to recommissioning. The final step is realization through to commissioning: implementation, start-up and ramp-up until the planned performance is reached in stable operation. Responsibility stays in one hand, from the first assessment to the productive plant.
Approach based on VDI 5200
Whatever the field, every project follows the phase structure of VDI 5200 with its seven phases:
- Setting of objectives
- Establishment of the project basis
- Concept planning
- Detail planning
- Preparation for realization
- Realization monitoring
- Ramp-up support
Each phase produces a reviewable result before the next begins. How the seven phases are structured in detail is set out in our account of factory planning to VDI 5200.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What project sizes does Bross Consulting work on?
Bross Consulting handles projects of different sizes — from a focused material flow or layout analysis to the general planning of complete plants. External planning is worthwhile as soon as floor space, material flow and investment are interdependent, typically with an expansion, relocation or new build. What matters is not the size of the company but the complexity of the planning task.
Does the service end at planning, or is implementation supported?
Bross Consulting supports projects beyond planning. As a general planner, Bross takes on overall responsibility across the trades and carries projects through project management and a PMO to commissioning.
Which industries does Bross Consulting plan for?
Bross Consulting plans for manufacturing companies in mechanical engineering, the automotive industry, electronics, life sciences, aviation, the chemical industry, the food industry and consumer goods. The VDI 5200 planning method stays the same across industries; the industry-specific requirements decide the outcome.
How does a project run?
Bross Consulting works along the phase structure of VDI 5200: first objectives and data, then concept and detailed planning, then realization and ramp-up. Each phase produces a reviewable result before the next begins.
In which region does Bross Consulting operate?
Bross Consulting plans from its offices in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin-Schönefeld and operates nationwide as well as across the German-speaking region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
Contact
Discuss your project
From feasibility study to commissioning — with contacts at our offices in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin-Schönefeld.