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Industrial
Sector

Bartle brings a holistic view that allows us to co-construct pragmatic, workable and bold solutions through our multi-disciplinary systems.

Modern manufacturing is facing several major challenges.

  • The reorganisation of operations to be as close as possible to consumption points and to accommodate scale requirements;
  • Heightened performance requirements in response to business challenges intensified by the rise in raw material prices and the consideration of new requirements;
  • The need to support the sector in its transition to Industry 4.0 to address the key issues of performance, attractiveness and integration; and
  • New Corporate Social Responsibility objectives that must be taken into account.

« Manufacturing must reinvent itself to meet the environmental and societal imperatives of our world »
Gilles Bechet, Director

Automated and connected
manufacturing

The sector is facing an urgent need for digitisation to boost performance. This involves setting up automated and connected manufacturing systems backed by proven digital solutions such as IoT, AI, BIM, PLM, scheduling, S&OP, forms, voice assistance, tele-expertise, simulation, AR/VR, robotics, and connected objects.

Choosing the right digital solutions to align with the specific characteristics of a company is critical to meet the demands for economic and operational efficiency:

  • More efficiency: Maximise the efficiency of operating resources by optimising the use of equipment, staff workload and quality.
  • More added value: Enable employees to focus on high value-added work by automating repetitive tasks.
  • More reliability: Improve working conditions and safety on the ground. Improve equipment security, reliability and utilisation rates while containing the associated maintenance costs, man-hours, spare parts costs, etc.
  • More lateral communication: Through information sharing, the organisation becomes more cross-functional and less vertical, and employees are more autonomous and more responsible.

More resource-efficient
manufacturing

In France, 20% of greenhouse gas emissions come from manufacturing. The industry must make an essential transformation to do its part to secure a sustainable future for our planet. This presents an opening to optimise operating costs, but also to enhance brand image and appeal and to identify new opportunities for growth and employment.

Using recycled or repurposed materials, upgrading transport methods, optimising consumables and spare parts, and reusing the heat generated by equipment are just a few examples of solutions that reconcile ecology and profitability.

Broad range of expertise
with an hybrid approach

We leverage our broad range of expertise and a cross-pollination approach to tackle various problems currently facing the industry:

  • Industry of the Future & Digitisation of activities
    Develop a roadmap to support the transition to Industry 4.0, provide strategic support for BIM & PLM, conduct monitoring and benchmarking.
  • Operational performance
    Implement Operational Excellence & Lean Manufacturing practices reinforced by the use of digital technology to optimise inter-plant operations and processes, carry out workshop and plant performance diagnostics, support the implementation of automation/AI/IoT, etc.
  • Planning, scheduling and end-to-end management of operations
    Planning activities are more critical, more complex, and more efficient than they were even a few years ago. From forecasting algorithms and audits of existing processes to technology monitoring for new digital tools, our support projects cover a wide range of subjects aimed at improving the efficiency of the business, from industrialisation to mass production and reuse.
  • Maintainability and life cycle of production resources
    Analyse processes/tools/organisation, run cost models, conduct reliability assessments.
  • CSR transition
    Assist with sustainable procurement, process optimisation, energy audit, waste management, low carbon buildings, obtaining certifications, etc.
  • Help with selecting tools or service providers and change management support
    Bartle has access to an ecosystem of startups that can implement innovative tools and models.
  • Near-sourcing/supply chain performance
    Redesign sourcing strategy, implement local targeting procurement, define roadmaps associated with sourcing.

Three manufacturing case studies
where our clients boosted their performance

Change management support

Prior to deploying a new computer-aided maintenance management system on 35 rolling stock maintenance units, Bartle assisted a long-standing player in urban mobility by carrying out detailed impact studies, defining the strategy and training scenarios and their implementation, getting the stakeholders on board, communicating, overseeing the necessary changes on the ground, and setting up the go Live pilots and project management.

S&OP Planning – Electronics Industry

Before deploying an APS system to 4 manufacturing sites: Bartle inventoried best practices, established a benchmark and drafted supply chain guidelines on upstream/internal/downstream flow management, customer demand and forecasting, multi-horizon planning (S&OP, MPS, scheduling), procurement, logistics and transport. We also helped to create a self-assessment tool for supply chain practices (maturity matrix).

BIM Strategy and Transformation

Bartle assisted its client in defining its BIM strategy, drawing up its business plan and putting together a transformation plan to cover not only technical requirements but also the impact on operating methods and skills development for its teams.

Change management support

Prior to deploying a new computer-aided maintenance management system on 35 rolling stock maintenance units, Bartle assisted a long-standing player in urban mobility by carrying out detailed impact studies, defining the strategy and training scenarios and their implementation, getting the stakeholders on board, communicating, overseeing the necessary changes on the ground, and setting up the go Live pilots and project management.

S&OP Planning – Electronics Industry

Before deploying an APS system to 4 manufacturing sites: Bartle inventoried best practices, established a benchmark and drafted supply chain guidelines on upstream/internal/downstream flow management, customer demand and forecasting, multi-horizon planning (S&OP, MPS, scheduling), procurement, logistics and transport. We also helped to create a self-assessment tool for supply chain practices (maturity matrix).

BIM Strategy and Transformation

Bartle assisted its client in defining its BIM strategy, drawing up its business plan and putting together a transformation plan to cover not only technical requirements but also the impact on operating methods and skills development for its teams.

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