Deutsche Bergbau-Technik GmbH in Wuppertal has unique potential worldwide in terms of mining know-how. Strategic plans envisaged an increase in productivity through optimization of the manufacturing processes, with a significant increase in the proportion of in-house production. With MALORG Consulting, the rough and detailed planning of the production processes and warehousing was carried out and a continuous information flow concept was developed up to realization.
Success stories
Plant planning and reorganization of production logistics for DBT in Wuppertal
31. May 2022, Reading time: 1 min 56 second
Two optimization priorities
- Development of a logistics system for warehouse and production control
- Development of an up-to-date manufacturing strategy for the “hydraulic controls” product unit
Warehouse and production control
- Weak point: decentralized storage with various buffer areas.
- Planning of a central, automated tote storage system as the “heart of production
- Supply and disposal of the production islands, assembly and incoming and outgoing goods via storage and retrieval conveyor systems
- automatic provision of the totes via interface with the SAP-PP module
- computerized warehouse management supports detection of surplus stocks
Manufacturing strategy for hydraulic controls
- Restructuring of the production
- Organization according to product classification in islands as group work
- production process divided into processing steps
- each group controls itself
- realizable ideal layout with optimized arrangement of individual operating resources
- integration of latest developments and economically reasonable automation approaches