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Articles by Daniel Küpper
How Manufacturers Are Rethinking Costs
For manufacturers, cost savings are a never-ending focus, even in the best of times. But today, the global manufacturing sector is facing a new reckoning. Geopolitical disruption, energy volatility and labor shortages are pushing margins to their limit, while the pressure to digitize and decarbonize continues to intensify. In such a unique environment, cost management isn’t just about survival, but about building the foundation for a competitive edge in the years ahead.
The Battery Cell Factory of the Future
Optimizing cell factories for next-generation technologies and strategically positioning them in an increasingly competitive market is key to long-term success. Battery cell production capacity globally could exceed demand by as much as twofold over the next five years, making operational efficiency essential to competitiveness.
Supply Chain Management
BCG helps organizations focus on building resilience and sustainability into their supply chains to mitigate disruptions and trade instability. We also help maximize the return on these critical investments. In today’s business climate, customer expectations are increasingly diverse, complex, and volatile. Potential markets and optimum manufacturing locations are continually shifting.
Generative AI’s Role in the Factory of the Future
Generative AI is one of today’s hottest business topics, with companies exploring its potential applications and benefits across industries and functions, including manufacturing. But despite the recent buzz, manufacturers should recognize that simply applying tools like ChatGPT on their own will not revolutionize factory operations.
BCG-WEF Project: AI-Powered Industrial Operations
Unleashing AI’s Potential: A Step-by-Step Guide The growing significance of data and advanced manufacturing technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), offers fresh avenues for companies to improve production efficiency and flexibility as well as to promote sustainability and empower their workforce. Many manufacturers have already integrated AI into their operations.
How Deep Tech Can Drive Sustainability and Profitability in Manufacturing
The days of operations that pursue speed, quality, and cost efficiency above all else have come to an end. Today, the objectives that manufacturers must pursue to ensure competitiveness have evolved. Sustainability, long seen as incompatible with these traditional goals, is now a strategic imperative. This raises a question for manufacturers: How can they make products and production processes more sustainable while remaining profitable?
How Deep Tech Can Drive Sustainability and Profitability in Manufacturing
The days of operations that pursue speed, quality, and cost efficiency above all else have come to an end. Today, the objectives that manufacturers must pursue to ensure competitiveness have evolved. Sustainability, long seen as incompatible with these traditional goals, is now a strategic imperative. This raises a question for manufacturers: How can they make products and production processes more sustainable while remaining profitable?
Boosting Resilience with Production as a Service
Improving Market Responsiveness. Producers need a new value proposition to meet rising consumer demand, especially among millennials, for highly customized products. Such demand is evident across industries and products ranging from cars to watches to cosmetics. To compete in this environment, producers must have the flexibility to manufacture many different product variants and to quickly adjust output volume in response to fast-changing demand patterns.
How to Close the Automation Revolution Gap in Manufacturing
Related Expertise: Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Operations March 29, 2022 By Daniel Küpper, Christoph Sieben, Johannes Boyne, Alex Li , and Tilman Buchner The technologies needed to overcome many longstanding barriers to shop floor automation—and the skills needed to use them in combination—are finally available. Manufacturing is on the verge of an automation revolution.
BCG-WEF Project: Unlocking Value in Manufacturing Through Data
Companies that master the use of data, successfully deploying advanced technological and organizational enablers in data applications across their ecosystems, are considered data champions. They generate consistently high scores on measures of productivity and customer experience, as well as of society and the environment. Accelerating Progress Almost all manufacturing companies have started their journey toward data excellence, but so far none have reached the end of the path.
The Zero-Based Factory
Related Expertise: Manufacturing, Operations, Industry 4.0 April 14, 2021 By Daniel Küpper, Kristian Kuhlmann, Elfrun von Koeller, Bitan Datta, and Konstantin Wree The time has come for manufacturing companies to redesign their operations using a clean-sheet approach. To enhance their competitiveness, they must simultaneously improve their value proposition, strengthen their operational resilience, and pursue sustainability.
How Manufacturers Can Unlock Value from Data Sharing
Related Expertise: Manufacturing, Operations, Industry 4.0 January 21, 2020 By Daniel Küpper, Aclan Okur, Francisco Betti, Felipe Bezamat, Memia Fendri, and Beatriz Fernandez Data is the lifeblood of the factory of the future. As manufacturers increasingly deploy advanced analytics, AI, and other emerging digital technologies to transform production and supply chains, they must find effective ways to apply and manage data. So far, most manufacturers have focused on data within their companies.
Shifting Gears in Auto Manufacturing
Related Expertise: Automotive Industry, Operations, Industrial Goods There has been plenty of uncertainty in the automotive industry, even before the collapse in manufacturing and sales as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, much of it centered on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and how quickly they will gain widespread acceptance.
When Lean Meets Industry 4.0
Related Expertise: Industry 4.0, Manufacturing, Engineered Products & Infrastructure The Next Level of Operational Excellence December 14, 2017 By Daniel Küpper, Ailke Heidemann, Johannes Ströhle, Claudio Knizek, and Daniel Spindelndreier For several decades, manufacturers have used lean principles and tools to reduce operational complexity and improve productivity.
AI in the Factory of the Future
Related Expertise: Industry 4.0, Operations, Engineered Products & Infrastructure The Ghost in the Machine April 18, 2018 By Daniel Küpper, Markus Lorenz, Kristian Kuhlmann, Olivier Bouffault, Jonathan Van Wyck, Sebastian Köcher, Jan Schlageter, and Yew Heng Lim Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in business technology, and industrial companies have taken notice.
The Green Factory of the Future
Related Expertise:Lean & Manufacturing, Sustainability, Operations June 29, 2020 By Daniel Küpper , Kristian Kuhlmann , Cornelius Pieper , Jens Burchardt , and Jan Schlageter Industrial companies have an enormous carbon footprint. Their production and logistics operations account for more than half of all global carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from fuel combustion.
How CEOs Can Win the Fight and Transform to Win the Future
Related Expertise:Transformation, Operations, People & Organization June 8, 2020 By Daniel Küpper , Tom Reichert , Marin Gjaja , Vaishali Rastogi , and Ryoji Kimura As countries lift lockdowns and companies ramp up operations, CEOs face an unprecedented challenge.
Restarting Work Safely and Under Control
Choose your location to get a site experience tailored for you. Remember my region and language settings Related Expertise:Operations, People & Organization May 20, 2020 By Daniel Küpper and Claudio Knizek As companies emerge from lockdown, they are striving to ensure the safety of their people and the continuity of their operations. And they want to do both cost-effectively and with an eye toward transformation and renewal.
Blockchain in the Factory of the Future
Like the rest of the world, the factory is rapidly becomingmore interconnected. In the factory of the future, data sharing occurs across a complex network of machines, parts, products and value chain participants, including machinery providers and logistics companies. As a result, today, more than ever, manufacturers face the challenge of securely sharing data within and outside the factory walls. Traditional databases are not always well-suited to the task.
Blockchain in the Factory of the Future
Related Expertise:Lean & Manufacturing, Operations, Cost & Efficiency July 15, 2019 By Daniel Küpper , Johannes Ströhle , Thomas Krüger , Kaj Burchardi , and Neil Shepherd Like the rest of the world, the factory is rapidly becoming more interconnected. In the factory of the future, data sharing occurs across a complex network of machines, parts, products, and value chain participants, including machinery providers and logistics companies.
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