Industry
Design and implement the transformation of industrial operations
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?
Address all aspects of your transformation, from designing the target to establishing and supporting the transformation path
Our manufacturing expertise is there to support you in all phases of your transformation, taking into account all organizational, technological, human and social dimensions.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ergonomics of solutions and UX Design
- Pedagogical engineering and training facilitation
- Change management support
- Team mobilization
- Visual management and performance rituals
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)
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