Industry Consulting

Industry

Design and implement the transformation of industrial operations

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The operational and digital aspects of industrial projects have become inseparable. Today projects for new lines, changes in the master plan, a performance project, or the transformation of a sector (e.g. engineering, maintenance, R&I), doesn’t exist without simultaneously addressing the performance levers through digitalization.

Industrial departments must now know how to integrate all these dimensions into their roadmaps:

Align technological ambitions with business challenges and performance objectives
Plan digital resources at the same time as capacity investment plans
Redesign processes and businesses to take advantage of technological breakthroughs
Implement performance plans based on the deployment of IT tools for execution: design & engineering, planning, production, maintenance, quality, internal logistics and storage, lifecycle management, etc.

In this context, leaders must also coordinate action to respond to new issues:

How can we get the most value from industrial data, both technically (process, maintenance, quality, etc.) and managerially (to drive decision-making)?
How can we generalize and industrialize Industry 4.0 use cases at the right pace, between the integration of disruptive technologies and the management of obsolescence?
What skills should be acquired, and in which areas should they be adjusted to operate production systems that contain as much software as machines?
How can the challenges of sustainable development, energy management and social responsibility be addressed?

Our consulting services

How we support your business goals with Industry Consulting

Accelerating business transformation using innovation drivers

Innovation is no longer optional for companies, but a necessity in day-to-day operations. Our team supports our industrial clients in identifying and implementing innovation opportunities to enable them to grow, perform and transform.

Define innovation strategies: A central component for defining the innovation fields needed to feed the overall strategy and its businesses. Build R&D and innovation roadmaps, optimize business/project portfolios, measure the performance and impact of innovation, and conduct strategic analyses of emerging markets.
Build innovation ecosystems: Support major transformations in R&D and innovation including digitalization, reorganization and open innovation. We also offer skilled support in setting up dedicated resources such as R&D centers, inno labs, incubators and intrapreneurship programs, and in helping teams to embrace change and adopt these transformations.
New products, services and business model development: Innovation projects (e.g. products, services) need to be steered (lean start-up, agile, etc.) and managed according to their specific characteristics and maturity level (scoping, assessment, experimentation and industrialization

Set the performance target and mark out the path to follow

Benchmark of production systems
Performance diagnosis (e.g. EBIT, OEE, WCR, Indirect and Direct Labor)
Identification of use cases in technological breakthrough
Roadmap for the digitalization of operations
Transformation costing: business case, ROI and organization sizing
Design and performance of the industrial organization

Express the digitization needs and choose the solutions adapted to the context

Framing of IS and Industry 4.0 projects
Architecture of infrastructures and applications
Drafting of specifications for APS (Advanced Planning System), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services), WMS (Warehouse management system)
Analysis of the offers and instruction of the choice

Structure and lead projects

Support to the transformation program management
Implementation of the Project Management Office (PMO)
Animation of detailed design phases
Contribution of expertise: Lean Manufacturing, Data management, IOT and Sustainability

Support the teams

Ergonomics of solutions and UX Design
Pedagogical engineering and training facilitation
Change management support
Team mobilization
Visual management and performance rituals

Innovation management and funding

Tax credits such as the CIR are an important way of boosting R&D projects. There’s a large number of CIR, CII, CICo, Jeune Entreprise Innovante and IP Box schemes, which are varied and require expertise, experience, methodology and thoroughness to cope with increasingly rigorous controls. Our teams provide an exhaustive, secure tax credit assessment, while improving internal processes and saving time for engineers and project managers.

Our consultants provide services on Research Tax Credit or Innovation Tax Credit, focusing on:

Audit R&D and innovation projects
Calculate RTC (estimated and final computations)
Presenting risks and issues associated with projects and expenditures in a transparent manner
Securing eligible projects through clarification of technical documentation
Raising awareness and training stakeholders on how RTC operates and tax news using innovative and adapted tools
Support for tax controls
Specifically concerning the IP Box, identify eligible assets or groups of assets (e.g. patent and copyrighted software), to calculate the income base eligible for the reduced tax rate at 10% (revenues, R&D expenses and Nexus ratio), and to structure your organization in order to benefit from the program in a secure manner.

Wavestone assists our clients in their public funding strategies. We have significant expertise in these mechanisms and calls for projects, whether they are European (e.g. Horizon Europe, Life Programme, Innovation Fund, Connecting Europe Facility), national (Programmes d’investissements d’avenir, France Relance, Bpifrance, ADEME, ANR) or regional (ERDF funds, REACT-EU, INTERREG).

We support our clients and secure the process to:

Analyze projects and help to mature them
Identify and analyze funding opportunities
Communicate on projects and interact with public authorities
Build and present projects to funders according to the formalism and deadlines imposed
Coordinate and lead national or European consortia for the preparation of applications and the implementation of funded projects
Secure and justify funding obtained
Identify subsequent opportunities (exploitation strategy and new developments)