Production Performance & Capacity Increase

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Increase your productivity and reduce your costs: Ekium optimizes your industrial facilities from start to finish and increases your production capacity.

If you are facing bottlenecks, saturated capacity, or recurring production losses, Ekium's Industrial & Energy Performance agency will help you identify optimization levers, study solutions, simulate gain scenarios, and deploy technical solutions, including the creation or expansion of sites if necessary.

We mainly support our clients with high value-added consulting services: audits, diagnostics, feasibility studies, preliminary projects, master plans, investment plans, possible subsidies, etc.

Our contacts: Decision-makers responsible for company/group strategy (CEO, industrial director, engineering director, etc.) or factory strategy (director, production/technical service manager, etc.).

Our expertise

Diagnosis and identification of levers

  • Audit / Due Diligence

  • Functional and technical analysis

  • Technological audit

  • Value chain mapping

  • Flow study

  • Bottleneck detection

  • Performance gap analysis: OEE, MTBF, changeover time

  • Study of the adaptability of buildings and equipment

  • Study of performance improvement solutions

  • Financing study

Plant design and expansion:

  • Feasibility study: equipment sizing, Make or Buy strategy

  • Site selection study: analysis of workflow and infrastructure capacity to adapt to changes

  • Budget analysis: CAPEX/OPEX

  • Value analysis

  • Digital twin: 3D model, process simulation, virtual commissioning

  • Production ramp-up and performance maintenance

Simulation and optimization

  • Dynamic flow simulation to test scenarios prior to investment (Plant Simulation-Siemens, Arena-Rockwell software)

  • Study of optimal equipment sizing and capacity planning

  • Functional analysis: integration of breakdowns, cleaning cycles, operator availability

Monitoring and reporting

  • Design of performance dashboards: KPIs (OEE, PDP, costs)

  • Team coaching: skill development in tools and methods

  • Continuous improvement process: gap analysis, action plans

Flow analysis and optimization

  • Flow mapping: Products, People

  • Numerical and dynamic flow simulation (Plant Simulation-Siemens and Arena-Rockwell software). This solution allows us to account for the full complexity of the system, including temporal interactions and dynamics, to ensure greater precision and robustly validate sizing and organization. Sizing of equipment and resources (processes, operators), definition of control rules.

  • Logistics Value Stream Mapping: identification of non-value-added activities

Your challenges

  • Capacity constraints: inability to meet demand without optimization or expansion

  • Production losses: recurring breakdowns, excessive changeover times, etc.

  • Suboptimal flows: unnecessary handling, excessive intermediate inventory, etc.

  • Lack of visibility: absence of reliable key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive performance

  • Complex expansion projects: need for a single point of contact with multidisciplinary expertise (processes, buildings, automation, energy)

  • Regulatory compliance: regulatory requirements, ATEX, safety, ICPE, etc.

Our added value

  • A comprehensive approach ranging from strategic analysis to operations, including financing (BPI, regional authorities, etc.)

  • Field-based approach with surveys conducted in factories and workshops by consultants to collect diagnostic data

  • Integrated multi-disciplinary expertise: process, automation, energy, building, Industry 4.0 digitalization

  • Flow analysis expertise and advanced simulation tools: more accurate results than traditional static methods

  • Proven methodology: SMED, FMEA, Value Stream Mapping

  • Measurable performance: quantified gains (tons produced, OEE, cost reduction)

  • Digital tools to drive performance

CHEMISTRY

Production optimization: +35% tons produced (+€5M annual gross margin) via 4 levers (planning, maintenance, production, plant 4.0)

INDUSTRY

Capacity expansion/site creation - full support from master plan to commissioning of new plant

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ENERGY

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