Designing Logistics and Factory Systems

In-depth understanding of a production system’s structures and processes makes it possible to organize and control digital transformation in a business actively.

Businesses that are competitive in the long-term are increasingly having to operate within their structures and capacities’ maximum performance range. So that this keeps functioning, the Fraunhofer IFF’s Logistics and Factory Systems Business Unit provides its clients solutions and services that maximize technical, logistical and organizational capabilities.

Our balanced mix of excellent research and applied development enables us to create applied solutions for our clients. Equipped with highly advanced tools and methods, we design complex logistics and factory systems and systematize digital specifications in factory design. This enables us to create genuine business value together with our clients, from design with BIM to simulation with plant life cycle management through factory operation with digital factory twins.

• What will the resource-efficient, connected factory of the future look like?
• How can I optimally design a new factory building or an addition?
• What are the current methods being employed to design new factories or remodel existing ones?
• Was does Building Information Modeling actually mean and what capabilities doe this method hold for my business?
• What connective and communication-enabled tools assist me with practicable solutions?

The answers to these or similar questions are based on a mix of properly employed

• methods,
  
• tools, and
  
• dedicated problem-solving teams.
  

Our clients are not just major companies but also small and medium-sized businesses, service providers and federal, state and municipal organizations. In the process, we pursue a methodical approach, employing digitally integrated technologies and applied tools, including

• a digital design table,
• digital interior specifications, and
  
• Building Information Modeling
  

as well as the Elbedome 360° mixed reality laboratory to visualize machinery, plants and entire factories. This enables us to model and simulate production processes and scheduling and make systems virtually accessible, available and interactive for you. We will help you transition to a digital factory.