Infrastructure planning with MES – Optimize investment costs and reduce operating costs
You are planning to extend or modify your production plant, possibly in connection with a new building or removal to another site. You are confronted with sophisticated and manifold tasks as a plant manager/operations manager:
- Planning (integrated)
- Optimization and automation
- Monitoring and control
MES offers all planning services for production sites – in the field of plastic industry, packaging industry or textile industry.
In order to take into account the complexity of the planning tasks, we separate the Infrastructure Planning as an independent planning field. MES will also carry out the subsequent set-up of the infrastructure as a comprehensive service provider.
Cost reduction through an optimization of the infrastructure in a textile production company
Infrastructure planning starts with questions:
- How much infrastructure equipment/operating equipment and technical output (min/max) is available to you for production (number, volume, area, transport vehicles, boilers, silos etc.)?
- How much infrastructure and operating equipment is required for production?
- each hour, day, week, month, year
- in summer / in winter
- with a 5-day week
- with a 7-day week
- with a 2-shift operation
- with a 3-shift operation
- Which downtimes of the operating equipment can be compensated for/accepted by production?
- Which maximum peak load of the operating equipment is required for undisturbed production operations?
- How much infrastructure and operating equipment is indirectly required by sales (in particular, how much flexibility)?
How to start infrastructure optimization projects?
Do you change your production capacity or your range of products? Do you combine the required adaptations with an infrastructure optimization – with these possible targets:
- Release of reserves in the infrastructure
- Reduction of operating facilities
- Optimization of operating costs
The combination of a modification of production with an optimization of the infrastructure will doubtlessly offer saving potentials.
Infrastructure planning/Infrastructure optimization – typical services offered by MES
- Waste situation + disposal
- Optimization of exhaust air system
- Lighting analysis
- Steam- and water generation
- Compressed air generation
- Analysis of energy consumption
- Analysis of requirements for air conditioning units
- Stock movement
- Material flow analysis
- Production extension
- Production reduction
- Power distribution