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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE (OpEx)

We develop future-oriented solutions across the entire value chain, from Production System Design, potential analyses and Supply Chain Excellence to industrialization, factory planning and Lean Manufacturing. By doing so, we unlock key efficiency drivers, enable scalable growth and create sustainable competitive advantages through solutions that are consistently tailored to market and customer requirements.

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You optimizing individual processes instead of the system as a whole? Your costs scaling faster than your performance?

How future-ready is your production system?

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How much margin are you losing because your industrialization scales errors instead of eliminating them?

How much waste is still hidden in your processes?

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Why do you feel the costs every day, but not know where your biggest improvement opportunities lie?

How much untapped potential is your business leaving behind every day?

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How do you plan to grow if your factory is already operating at its limits?

Is your factory working for you or against you?

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Why accept a supply chain that limits your growth instead of enabling it?

Are you treating bottlenecks as business as usual?

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Why is preserving the status quo taking priority over transformation?

Why invest in innovation if your industrialization cannot deliver?

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OpEx Solutions

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Production System Design

 

  • Custom-designed production systems aligned with your specific requirements

  • Best-practice production systems optimized for your market environment

  • Digitalization of production processes

Your Benefits

  • End-to-end support from analysis through implementation

  • Increased efficiency and productivity

  • Greater transparency and control across production

  • Shorter lead times and improved delivery performance

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Potential Analysis

 

  • Identify Hidden Opportunities

  • Data-driven analysis of production and process data

  • End-to-end process analysis from forecasting to delivery

Your Benefits

  • Reveal hidden improvement potential across your organization

  • Identify quick wins with immediate impact

  • Build more efficient and future-ready processes

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Supply Chain Excellence

 

  • Material flow design across the complete value chain

  • Analysis and implementation of an integrated information flow

  • Bottleneck analysis across existing resources

​Ihre Vorteile

  • Shorter lead times

  • Inventory where it creates value

  • More efficient utilization of existing resources

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Lean Manufacturing

 

  • Application of proven Lean Manufacturing tools

  • Workplace, layout and process optimization

  • Workshops and hands-on implementation of 5S, Continuous Improvement (Kaizen), Zero-Defect principles and more

​Your Benefits

  • Rapid cost reductions through targeted, high-impact measures

  • Empowered teams that continue improving long after the project ends

  • Stronger problem-solving capabilities throughout your organization

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Factory Planning

  • Greenfield and Brownfield factory planning

  • Material flow and logistics planning

  • Relocation of complex products and production processes

  • Planning and implementation of temporary production facilities

Your Benefits

  • Maximum utilization of production capacity

  • Sustainable improvements in material flow and logistics

  • Reduced investment risk

  • Future-proof production sites

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Product & Process Industrialization

  • Industrialization of new products

  • Development and alignment of the supply chain

  • Technology selection

  • Optimization of existing products, processes and resources

Your Benefits

  • Rapid impact through short onboarding times

  • Project management costs limited to the actual project duration

  • Access to interdisciplinary cross-ING expertise

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Production System Design
Potentialanalyse
Supply Chain Excellence
Lean Manufacturing
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Our OpEx Services

  • Material flow / Supply Chain analysis

  • Application of selected production improvement methodologies

  • Workplace and layout optimization

  • Establishment of an integrated information flow across the value chain

  • Development of external manufacturing capabilities

  • Setup of temporary production facilities

  • Development and alignment of the product supply chain

  • Data analysis of production and operational data

  • End-to-end process digitalization with a closed information flow

  • End-to-end process integration

  • Bottleneck analysis across existing resources (people, machines and workstations)

  • Greenfield and Brownfield factory planning

  • Industrialization of new products

  • Factory layout planning

  • Logistics planning and material flow optimization

  • Make-or-buy decisions

  • Material flow design across the entire value chain

  • Sustainable inventory reduction

  • Optimization of existing products, processes and resources

  • Process analysis from forecasting to order fulfillment and delivery

  • Process optimization

  • Maintenance efficiency projects to reduce unplanned downtime

  • Production downsizing and controlled product phase-out management

  • Scaling production processes to support business growth

  • Assessment of process digitalization maturity

  • Technology selection

  • Relocation of complex products or production processes to other sites

  • Reduction of lead times

  • Workshops and hands-on implementation of 5S, Continuous

  • Improvement (Kaizen), Zero-Defect principles, 5R, SMED (changeover optimization), the Seven Wastes and more

OpEx Team

We transform mindsets to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency.

Roland Messmer

Chief Competence Center OpEx

opex@cross-ING.ch

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Roland Messmer
Chief Competence Center

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Thomas
Competence Center Member

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Marcel
Competence Center Member

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Fabian
Competence Center Member

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