INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY AND IMPROVING RESULTS: RESTRUCTURING & TURNAROUND
Is your company in a state of upheaval and on the verge of stumbling? We support enterprises with operational restructuring projects as well as with a complete turnaround. To date, we have assisted over 800 clients in successfully overcoming turnaround situations - such as the Libro/Pagro restructuring in Austria and many more - as an implementation partner.
We work with the company management and owners to develop an ambitious but realistic implementation plan. We contribute our expertise to its realization – both internally and on the market, or together with key partners such as banks and investors. If necessary, we also take on central board functions on an interim basis.
Take advantage of our free quick check and identify transformation opportunities!
In one to two working days, we determine the extent of the potential for this improvement.
These are usually in the range of 10 to 25%.
We gather initial impressions on site by means of confidential interviews, an analysis of key figures and brief visits. The result is an initial, rough assessment of potential, which provides valuable starting points for planning the analysis phase.
In “Restructuring & Turnaround”, we focus on these areas of action:
- rapid identification of improvement potential along the entire value chain;
- rapid initiation and implementation of the turnaround;
- increasing the plausibility of the probability of success vis-à-vis owners, customers, and all stakeholders.
CASE STUDIES - PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
OPEX: Worldwide Operational Excellence Initiative
The EFESO OPEX model: activate the forces of excellence. You learn from mistakes. It is important that continuous improvement is the result. In industry, this is targeted as "Operational Excellence", or OPEX for short. Instead of resorting to off-the-shelf solutions, companies should develop their own strategies here - like the group from the steel industry, which successfully used the OPEX model from EFESO in its plants.
Digital Shopfloor Management
Performance increase on the shop floor. Should every employee receive shift planning via smartphone? Or the plant management can compare solution proposals on a virtual dashboard in real time in the event of disruptions in the production flow? Thanks to the available IoT technologies, these and many other work simplifications of a digital shop floor management can be easily implemented today. Automobile manufacturers in particular like to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization and already have various systems in use, at all stages of maturity.
Value and Cost Engineering
Cost transformation from premium to volume provider. Mass manufacturers who expand their Product portfolio into higher price segments are not uncommon. A premium manufacturer of refrigeration appliances, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. What seems banal from a technological point of view is an enormous challenge from a cost perspective. EFESO accompanied the company in this demanding transformation project.
Manufacturing Excellence: Optimizing instead of improvising
The global demand for thermosets is increasing, as is the case in the energy industry. A manufacturer of thermosetting resins has positioned itself as a leader in the chemical industry by providing these customers with a variety of innovative technologies, solutions and specialty products. In order to be able to react even more efficiently to market changes and customer requirements in the future, the company is realigning its production network.
Increasing productivity in the medical technology industry
A fast-growing manufacturer of medical consumables can no longer meet the rapidly increasing demand and is threatened with the loss of market share. The company needs a solution to significantly increase output in a short time.
Safeguarding the site thanks to lean value streams
With hard targets for the entire operations area, a valve manufacturer is aligning a plant location for the future - and thus securing the site in Germany. Together with EFESO, the company restructures its manufacturing and logistics and achieves, among other things, an OEE of more than 85%.
Digital transformation in the food industry
The EFESO case study describes how a confectionery manufacturer is expanding its competitive position with a comprehensive digitalization initiative. With EFESO, it is expanding the successes already achieved by its WCOM (*World Class Operations Management) program in the direction of highly digitalized production.