Project Management and Industrial Engineering
Project-
management and Industrial Engineering
Effectively managing projects – ensuring stable ramp-ups.
In many projects, this is particularly evident in the project or production start-up phase: technical concepts are in place, but at the same time, organization, staffing, training, and resource allocation are not sufficiently coordinated. In addition, plans are often not consistently adapted to the customer’s actual setup and call-off curve. The result is delays, instability, and escalations.
We support companies in identifying these risks at an early stage and avoiding them in a targeted manner. To this end, we accompany projects in advance and review processes, organizational structures, personnel development, and the feasibility of the planning. Our focus is on setting up projects in a structured manner, reducing complexity, and effectively securing start-ups and implementations – from analysis to operational implementation.
Our Operating Framework
Execution capability in transformation
In situations involving change and transformation, we consider not only processes and structures, but also the orientation, cooperation, and implementation capabilities of teams and leadership, as these factors play a decisive role in determining whether changes will have a lasting effect.
Digital evaluations as the basis for effective decisions
In our projects, we use digital, web-based evaluations as needed to capture complex situations in a structured, comparable, and transparent manner.
This is supported by a tool developed by Laforet-IT that allows evaluations to be carried out efficiently along processes, organization, quality, leadership, and performance – from data collection to a consolidated basis for decision-making.
The results are available in real time, enable cross-location and cross-departmental comparisons, and create a reliable basis for prioritization, control, and implementation. This makes qualitative assessments comprehensible, measurable, and effectively anchored.
The tool is always used in a supportive manner and is fully embedded in our consulting and implementation work.
Our services
Let’s work together to figure out how we can provide structured and effective support for your current situation.
Early risk and feasibility analysis
Early identification of critical issues in planning, organization, resources, and timing—before they lead to delays or escalations.
Structured project organization & clear responsibilities
Establishment of effective project structures with clear roles, decision-making processes, and transparent communication.
Process, layout, and material flow design
Design of stable processes and material flows as the basis for efficient production and reliable ramp-ups.
Securing industrialization and series production ramp-up
Synchronization of technology, organization, personnel development, and customer requirements—tailored to real build-up and call-off curves.
Employee development, qualification, and empowerment
Ensuring the necessary capacities and competencies at all levels—from the shop floor to management.
Ramp-up, production, and escalation management
Stabilization of critical situations, restoration of quality and delivery capability, and sustainable safeguarding of measures.
Interim management & operational responsibility
Assumption of management and control tasks when quick decisions and consistent implementation are required.
Selected Projects
Interim Task Force Management – stabilizing quality, delivery performance, and planning
In a project that had escalated dramatically, we took over the management of an interim task force with the aim of restoring quality and delivery capability at short notice and stabilizing them in the long term.
In addition to the targeted development and training of employees, including shift supervisors, the focus was on stabilizing the organization, increasing technical plant availability, and consistently coordinating planning and production.
In addition, we supported logistics and production planning, optimized the planning logic, created transparency and security in inventories, and eliminated inventory shortages. This significantly improved planning accuracy and stabilized operational control in the long term.
This significantly reduced operational risks and created a reliable basis for further production and volume fluctuations.
Within two months, quality and delivery performance were restored to a resilient level and the conditions for stable, predictable operations were created.
Securing Series Production Ramp-up – enabling a plant for a stable ramp-up phase
In a project to secure series production ramp-up, we supported the establishment and enablement of a production site with the aim of ensuring a stable and predictable ramp-up.
The focus was on early assessment and securing start-up capability through systematic analysis and coordination of production, logistics, and planning processes. Key topics included the design of robust information and material flows, validation of inventory and booking logic, and coordination of planning, capacities, and realistic ramp-up curves.
At the same time, we supported the structured recruitment of employees, the qualification of relevant functions, and the clear definition of roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths. In addition, bottlenecks and risks were identified at an early stage so that necessary decisions could be made in good time without jeopardizing the industrialization period.
The approach followed a clearly structured maturity and decision-making logic. Concrete results, responsibilities, and decision templates were developed for each phase so that progress, risks, and the need for action were transparent at all times.
This created the basis for reliably meeting high quality and delivery performance requirements and ensuring stable, scalable series production in the long term.