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Holistic automation of manufacturing processes

Manufacturers forced to cut costs by competitors, technological innovation and environmental regulation The manufacturing industry is undergoing change: low-cost competitors, new technologies, stricter environmental regulations and changing consumer [...]

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Optimal maintenance with the digital twin

The digital twin is a powerful tool for the efficient control of production systems and the optimization of maintenance processes. More and more companies are switching from conventional [...]

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Sustainability Congress 2024: new impulses for the circular economy

ConMoto partner Dr. Marc Heinisch moderated an expert panel on the topic of “Circular Economy” at the Sustainability Congress 2024 in Berlin. The event is a leading platform [...]

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Optimizing sustainability: Benefits of value-oriented maintenance

Ecological sustainability is becoming increasingly important in all sectors of industry. At the same time, the pressure to maximize profitability is increasing. For manufacturing companies in particular, this [...]

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Competitive advantages through product cost optimization

Expanding their own competitive position is a continuous challenge for companies. Product cost optimization is an effective strategy for all industries to meet cost targets and simultaneously increase [...]

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Global Maintenance Day 2024: High productivity and stable processes through strategic maintenance

The fact that the second Global Maintenance Day will be celebrated next Sunday, June 9, shows just how important maintenance has become for smooth industrial production. The reason [...]

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Scalability and resilience for business processes: End-to-end-Optimization in the order management

The requirements for business processes are becoming increasingly complex. Companies are struggling with market disruptions, long lead times, supply chain disruptions and growing product portfolios, for example through [...]

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Industry Insight: Mechanical Engineering

This week we are looking at mechanical engineering. After 2023, the VDMA has also lowered its sales forecast for the mechanical engineering sector for 2024. Rising costs in [...]

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FTWorX Amsterdam: New solutions for the global production footprint

Designing a global production footprint is becoming increasingly challenging and complex. Carsten von Hadeln, Principal at ConMoto, spoke at FTWorX in Amsterdam about the changing framework conditions and [...]

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Industry-Insight: Rail industry

Set the course for the future of the rail industry. The rail industry is currently experiencing an boom and has enormous growth potential, particularly due to the topic [...]

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Industry-Insight: Truck manufacturer

This week, we are focusing on the truck manufacturing industry The demand for more sustainably produced vehicles is also being noticed by truck manufacturers. Skills shortages, electromobility, alternative [...]

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Industry Insight: Body manufacturer

This week’s Industry Insight is all about body manufacturers. While order books have been full to bursting in recent years, the industry is currently struggling with declining sales [...]

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Industry-Insight: Security and Defense industry

The ongoing tension around the world and the growth in defense spending by NATO-countries mean that demand in this sector will grow constantly in the coming years. However, [...]

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Industry-Insight: Consumer Goods

This week we would like to introduce you to the consumer goods market. Prices for raw materials, energy, etc. have risen significantly in recent years. However, customers are [...]

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Industry Insights: Caravans & Motorhomes

In our Industry Insights series, we look at the various current challenges facing individual industries and the levers that can be used to overcome them. This time, we [...]

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ConMoto among the “Best Management Consultants 2024”

The Hamburg business magazine brand eins/Thema has named Germany’s “Best Management Consultants” – for the eleventh time. The awards are based on surveys of industry experts and among [...]

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„Zukunft Stahl 2024“ in Essen: Transformation of the steel industry

Dr.-Ing. Marc A. Heinisch and Dr.-Ing. Christian Frenzel from ConMoto discussed the decarbonization of the steel industry, securing raw materials and competitiveness through operational green excellence with other [...]

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Last Man Standing strategies: securing success in shrinking markets

The technological change in the automotive industry in the form of the trend from combustion engines to hybrid and all-electric drives is one of the most striking examples [...]

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Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year

We wish you and loved ones a happy and peaceful holiday season and a Happy New Year. ConMoto is particularly looking forward to working together with our new [...]

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ConMoto donates computers for Aktion Sonnenschein

Supporting the foundation “Aktion Sonnenschein – Hilfe für das mehrfach behinderte Kind” has been part of ConMoto’s social commitment for three decades. Munich-based Aktion Sonnenschein was one of [...]

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ManuTalk 23: End-to-end optimization of supply chains

Every year, the ManuTalk meetings bring together production practitioners from leading companies to discuss trends in industrial manufacturing. ManuTalk sheds light on the background topics of Industry 4.0 [...]

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ConMoto Strategie & Realisierung and Horn & Company merge

Consulting portfolios complement each other / Expertise along the value chain ConMoto Strategie & Realisierung becomes part of the Horn & Company Group. In future the two consulting [...]

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Maintenance News

ConMoto at the IMRWorX in Amsterdam

Experts from leading international companies meet annually at the IMRWorX Industrial Maintenance & Reliability conference to discuss the latest trends in maintenance and repair. Maintenance, which influences up [...]

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ConMoto Jumping Days from September 21st to 24th

German and international professionals, ambitious amateurs and youngsters will compete in the jumping course from September 21 to 24 in Harsum. The Grand Tour, which is endowed by [...]

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ConMoto at the Agritech Supplier Summit 2023

The fourth Agritech Supplier will bring together leading agribusiness companies that offer farmers innovative solutions that combine sustainability and profitability on September 13 and 14 in Augsburg, Germany. [...]

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Lake Constance Mobility Supplier Summit: How digitalization creates added value

At the Lake Constance Mobility Supplier Summit on June 28 and 29 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, ConMoto partner Dr. Marc Heinisch moderated the panel “Digitalization and Automation [...]

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Digitalization and Automation at the Lake Constance Mobility Supplier Summit

ConMoto partner Dr. Marc Heinisch will moderate the panel “Digitalization and Automation in Procurement and Production – cross-system network solutions” at the Lake Constance Mobility Supplier Summit on [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

End-to-end supply chain optimization: improving performance holistically

End-to-end supply chain optimization only succeeds when companies take a holistic view of their supply chains and networks. ConMoto partner Wilhelm Schreiner spoke at FutureTech WorX in Berlin [...]

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ConMoto at the FutureTech WorX

Knowledge transfer and innovation are the two main topics of the FutureTech WorX conference, which will take place on June 12 and 13 in Berlin under the motto [...]

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Leverage ConMoto market expertise: Invest now in the U.S.

ConMoto is participating again this year in the SelectUSA Investment Summit in National Harbor, Maryland. The Investment Summit is a networking opportunity for leaders in all industries and [...]

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Dr.-Ing. Christian Frenzel and Gizay Ünal new partners at ConMoto

Dr.-Ing. Christian Frenzel and Gizay Ünal are new partners at ConMoto. Christian Frenzel was previously Principal at ConMoto for Maintenance and Asset Management with a focus on asset [...]

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Artificial Intelligence and Asset Innovation

Small innovation steps with a big impact Asset innovation, the development of new assets, is a continuous improvement process of an existing system. The importance of Artificial Intelligence [...]

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Strengthen your business in the USA Take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act for investments

Take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) now to ensure your business benefits from expedited permitting and planning processes in the US. With speed, you can ensure [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Digitalization and low-cost automation: Increase productivity quickly with ConMoto

The highly automated and fully digitalized factory is the supposed ideal for the future of production. However, the current challenges facing companies look different: In an economic environment [...]

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ConMoto strategy workshops: get advice from experts before you take important decisions

Take advantage of the new ConMoto strategy workshops and get expert advice before you make important decisions: In two-day workshops, we analyze with you how your company can [...]

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Change in the automotive industry: What would Peter F. Drucker currently recommend?

Few people have influenced management and managers more in the 20th century than Peter F. Drucker. His insight “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is legendary. Drucker shaped management [...]

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Important trends in industrial manufacturing: ConMoto at ManuTalk 2022

ManuTalk is a leading annual meeting which brings together some of the most influential practitioners across the Industrial Manufacturing from leading SMEs to multinational flag ships of the [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

Hope for supply chains: creating new benchmarks for logistics systems

The congestion of ports is slowly dissolving and the cost of sea freight is falling. This is fueling hopes in German industry that the supply situation will soon [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Putting production systems to the test

Why so many companies are dissatisfied with their production system and how this can be changed Efficiency in production and in all operational areas is one of the [...]

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Maintenance News

Artificial intelligence in spare parts management

Dynamized inventories, maximum security of supply, effective processes To ensure the effective continuation of production, the availability of spare parts for maintenance is essential. Whether this succeeds depends [...]

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News Transformation & Restructuring

The economic environment for companies is increasingly difficult: How to maintain agency

Due to the simultaneous crises and the disruptions they cause, the mood in the German economy is getting worse and worse. One example of this is the metal [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

ConMoto sponsor at the Agravis Cup in Oldenburg

ConMoto continues its commitment to show jumping and sponsors the Agravis Cup in Oldenburg. The show jumping and dressage tournament will take place from October 27 to 30 [...]

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How to make your business profitable in stagnating and shrinking markets with the right product and production strategy

Technological change, intensified competition, and ever shorter product life cycles as well as rapidly changing market conditions lead to shorter-lived product strategies, which in turn have a direct [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

ConMoto article on sustainable value creation in the anthology “The World Is Green”

In the run-up to the Agritech Supplier Summit, the editors Josip Tomasevic (Senior Vice President & CPO AGCO), Angela Qu (Independent Board Director) and Dr. Hajo Drees (CEO [...]

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Agritech Supplier Summit: Growth through technological innovation and sustainability

The agricultural industry is a high-tech sector where sustainability, technological progress and other innovation topics take center stage. At the Agritech Supplier Summit 2022 in Augsburg, leading manufacturers [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

Supply Chains under Stress: How ConMoto Ensures More Resilient Supply Chains

Global supply chains have been under significant strain continuously since the onset of the Corona crisis in 2020. The recurring lockdowns at Chinese ports and the consequences of [...]

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ConMoto at the Agritech Supplier Summit 2022

At the Agritech Supplier Summit 2022 from September 21-23 in Augsburg, the focus will be on sustainability and carbon neutrality for procurement and supply chains in agriculture. ConMoto-CSO [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Production Footprint: Economic Success Requires Resilient Production Networks

The vulnerability of production and supply networks has come into particular focus in recent years, first with the pandemic and then with the war in Ukraine. Industrial companies [...]

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News Transformation & Restructuring

Whether you are an AG or a medium-sized company: This is how you finance growth

There is currently a remarkable trend worldwide: companies are buying their own shares. In Germany, this instrument is still only used with restraint, with less than one percent [...]

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News Transformation & Restructuring

Profit from the crisis or survive the crisis: How your company is doing the right thing now

An old truism says that crises always bring opportunities. If you look at current developments in the DAX, you come to the conclusion that pretty much half of [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Transformation of the automotive industry

The fact that the automotive industry is undergoing a huge transformation process is now on everyone’s mind. The big drivers of change are the shift from combustion engines [...]

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Maintenance News

Prescriptive maintenance – the maintenance management of the future is a neural network

3. The definition of optimal maintenance times and scopes is the logical combination of the first two points. Maintenance and servicing strategies are adapted dynamically and continuously on [...]

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ConMoto at the 2022 SelectUSA Investment Summit

ConMoto CSO Dr.-Ing. Marc Heinisch and ConMoto’s Managing Director Americas Dr.-Ing. Henning Bruns attended the 2022 SelectUSA Investment Summit in National Harbor, Maryland this week. The more than [...]

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Technological transformation: Artificial intelligence revolutionizes maintenance

How AI mines machine and plant data to reduce maintenance costs Maintenance in modern industrial production is currently undergoing a transformation driven by technological progress: While the digitalization [...]

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ConMoto at Logistics Plus: Supply chain trends, digitalization, purchasing

At the Logistics Plus 2022 conference in the Hugo Junker Hangar in Mönchengladbach on May 18, decision-makers from leading medium-sized industrial companies and experts will talk about new [...]

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Lake Constance Mobility Supplier Summit: How supply chains can withstand a stress test

How can companies stabilize their supply chains in a situation where the war in Ukraine and the globally varying effects of the Corona epidemic are putting extreme stress [...]

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ConMoto moderates expert panel on supplier management in the geopolitical crisis

The war in Ukraine and the global consequences of the Corona epidemic are threatening supply chains around the globe. What companies can do to stabilize their supply chains [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Industrial Engineering 4.0 for the Smart Factory: How to exploit the opportunities of digitization

Benefit now from the opportunities offered by Industrial Engineering 4.0. For information on how ConMoto can improve the performance of operations in your company, please visit our website. [...]

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ConMoto among the Top Consultants 2022 by Focus Business

Focus Business lists ConMoto among the Top Consultants 2022: In the ranking which the business magazine compiles annually together with the Factfield Institute experts rank ConMoto among the [...]

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ConMoto is one of the “Best Management Consultants 2022”

As in 2021, ConMoto is again among the “Best Management Consultants” in 2022. The business magazine brand eins/Thema Deutschlands has already awarded this prize for the ninth time. [...]

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Season’s Greetings

We wish you und your loved ones Happy Holidays and a healthy and joyful New Year. Thank you for your continued trust and support. We look forward to [...]

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“Farm to Fork, Part 4” Start-ups in the food industry: How supply chains remain stable

The ConMoto series “From Farm to Fork” highlights the entire value chain related to food industry: Whether it’s agricultural machinery necessary for sowing and harvesting, the production of [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Backlog reduction in production networks

Situation An automotive supplier on the first-tier level produces at locations in Germany and Poland. The company manufactures its products in a production network in which the individual [...]

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News Overcome Corona

Vaccinations and tests protect our employees and our clients

Like all companies whose work always involves personal contact between people, ConMoto as a management consultancy faces additional challenges through Corona. Travel is restricted or even impossible to [...]

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“Farm to fork” part 3: Effectively managing complex assortments in food retailing

The food market in Germany is very fast-moving due to constantly changing consumer demands and a highly competitive market environment. New customer needs are forcing food retailers to [...]

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“Farm to Fork” part 2: cutting costs through machine learning in the bakery

Always baking the right rolls: cutting costs through machine learning in the bakery Every year, 600,000 tons of bread and baked goods are thrown away in Germany. This [...]

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News Retail & Consumer Goods

“Farm to Fork”: optimizing your value chain

“Farm to Fork” has become a slogan when it comes to accompanying products from the cultivation of raw materials to consumption by the consumer. For ConMoto, “Farm to [...]

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Strategic Product Cost Management Is A Key To Success

Product cost management plays a decisive role in the economic success of your company. In view of the ever-increasing pressure on margins, the growing complexity of portfolios and [...]

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News Process Industry & Raw Materials

ConMoto at Global ManuChem Strategies 21

At Global ManuChem Strategies 21, the tenth edition of this specialist conference on maintenance topics in the chemical industry, ConMoto partner and CSO Dr. Marc Heinisch took on [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Backlog reduction at a Ukrainian supplier

Situation Our customer is a German First-Tier-supplier for the automotive industry. The company sources important parts from a supplier in Ukraine. However, the supplier’s delivery reliability is low. [...]

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ConMoto new member of the German American Business Council of Michigan

ConMoto is a new member of the German American Business Council of Michigan (GABC). Germany is the largest European trading partner of the tenth largest U.S. state, which [...]

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Maintenance News

Chemical industry: maintenance optimization at a leading plastics manufacturer

In asset-intensive industries such as the chemical industry, more than 60 percent of production costs depend directly or indirectly on the efficiency of maintenance. That’s why successful companies [...]

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For a leading sugar manufacturer: plant availability increased, maintenance costs reduced

During the sugar campaign, i.e. during the beet harvest and subsequent sugar production, producers’ plants run at full capacity. Plant downtime costs money. The availability and reliability of [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Automotive industry: ConMoto Task Force stabilizes critical suppliers

Technological trends in the automotive industry are already changing how OEMs and suppliers cooperate in the short and medium term, increasing the complexity of supply and value chains. [...]

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Career News

Con Moto is “Top Employer Medium-Sized Businesses 2021”

ConMoto has received the award „Top-Arbeitgeber Mittelstand 2021″. As in 2020, Focus-Business, together with the employer rating platform Kununu and the research institute FactField, analyzed more than 950,000 [...]

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ConMoto Supply Chain Task Force: Strong supply chains, smart risk management

The security of supply chains is at risk in many industries. Shortages of pre-materials, supplier failure during a crisis, or even increasing demand in industries whose products benefit [...]

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Focus-Business ranks ConMoto among the top consultancies 2021

ConMoto is among the top consultancies in 2021 in three specialist areas and industries: in technology consulting, in the automotive industry and in the energy and raw materials [...]

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ConMoto among the “Best Management Consultants” in Germany

For the eighth time, the business magazine brand eins/Thema awards Germany’s “Best Management Consultants”. The results are based on a survey conducted by the magazine and the Hamburg [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Innovation and efficiency improvement at JOYSONQUIN

JOYSONQUIN Automotive Systems is a Tier 1 automotive supplier with 4,250 employees in China, the U.S., Mexico, Germany and Europe producing decorative trims, functional components and energy management [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Sustainable OEE increase at HEWI

HEWI has been producing high-quality fasteners for the automotive industry and mechanical engineering for over 60 years. The retaining and fastening elements and cold extruded parts of the [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

Dipl.-Kfm. Wilhelm Schreiner new Senior Partner at ConMoto

ConMoto welcomes Wilhelm Schreiner as Senior Partner. Mr. Schreiner holds a degree in business administration and has 20 years of professional experience as Head of Supply Chain & [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Supply chains and production systems under pressure: How to avoid bottlenecks

The Covid 19 pandemic and Brexit represent a special stress test for supply chains. Whether supply chains in the manufacturing sector pass this test largely depends on a [...]

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Health, confidence and a successful new year…

  ...from ConMoto to our clients, staff and their loved ones. [...]

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Machinery & Plant Engineering News

A top-notch company location with ConMoto’s comprehensive process optimization

“ConMoto is a consultancy that develops pragmatic solutions and excellently masters sustainable implementation. Together, we have optimized our processes from the proposal phase to the initial start-up at [...]

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ConMoto congratulates Finja Bormann on winning the German Championship

Finja Bormann won the German Championship of female showjumpers in Riesenbeck at the weekend, riding A Crazy Son of Lavina. After two faultless qualifying courses, the pair led [...]

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During the crisis, only transparent leadership creates trust

In a recent survey, Allensbach institute observed some worrying opinions: 74 percent of the respondents are quite concerned or even very concerned about the impact of the Corona [...]

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Cross-company data exchange is a location factor for Germany and Europe

Forty years ago, I submitted my dissertation to the founding father of logistics, Prof. Dr. Helmut Baumgarten, at the TU Berlin. Its unwieldy title: “Cooperative design of cross-company [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Automotive suppliers’ struggle for survival: securing your market position

The situation of automotive suppliers is becoming increasingly dramatic. Due to Corona, sales are down by a good 30 percent. At the same time, structural change is prevailing. [...]

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Why auditing and consulting are to be separated

In today’s FAZ newspaper, two interesting articles are placed right next to each other on page 18: “Wirecard creditors among themselves” and “We will not see a major [...]

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Creative Destruction: when, if not now?

Schumpeter coined the concept of Creative Destruction. Often, a new system can only be successfully introduced once the old one has been replaced. Elon Musk has radically changed [...]

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Practical advice in agricultural machinery and technology

ConMoto cooperates with Friso Bormann, who holds Master of Science degrees in agronomy and equine sciences from the University of Göttingen. He successfully manages an agricultural enterprise that [...]

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Fighting the fear of insolvency: transparency and solutions for SMEs with our ConMoto QuickCheck

Traditionally, Germany’s economy has its main emphasis on successful medium-sized industrial companies. The conventional definition of “small and medium-sized enterprises” sets the upper limit at 50 million euros [...]

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Strategy gains importance in uncertain times

In addition to the major technological upheavals, the influences of the Corona crisis become increasingly palpable. How are the nation and its entrepreneurs supposed to react? What are [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Strategic sales and operations planning

When operational production planning falls short Fluctuating order intake, uncertain market forecasts and an increased complexity of supply chains present new challenges to production planning and control. Companies [...]

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News Overcome Corona

Experts revise economic forecast downwards in line with ConMoto forecast from April

In their joint autumn report the five leading German economic research institutes have corrected their forecast downward. According to the experts’ calculations, the German Gross Domestic Product will [...]

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Dipl.-Ing. Alain Leroy new Senior Partner at ConMoto

ConMoto welcomes Alain Leroy as new Senior Partner. He holds a graduate degree in mechanical engineering and business administration. Before joining ConMoto Alain Leroy worked for 14 years [...]

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Maintenance News

A successful whisper campaign makes a CEO’s life easier

Everything started with a short talk between me and the CEO of a leading international manufacturer with a turnover of more than 100 billion Euros. We talked about [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

Double victory for ConMoto Crazy Cato on the Friends Tour

The 15-year-old gelding “Crazy Cato” and his rider Friso Bormann have won two competitions of the Friends Tour at the ConMoto Jumping Days in Harsum. They also finished [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

Finja Bormann wins ConMoto Prize in Harsum

Finja Bormann won the Grand Prix at the ConMoto Jumping Days in Harsum with an advantage of 17 hundredths of a second in the jump-off. She rode Clippo [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

ConMoto webinar with BVL on intelligent process automation for supply chains

How can digital business models be successfully implemented in supply chains – aided by intelligent process automation? Our ConMoto experts Rüdiger Rehm and Dirk Gottschlich will answer this [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News

Case study: Cost reduction at the main plant of an automotive supplier

An automotive supplier company produced an ever-increasing variety of products in a fatctory that has grown for the last 50 years. Today, these specific premises have an annual [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

Franz Bormann wins ConMoto prize by victory in class S** showjumping

A week before the ConMoto Jumping Days, riders and horses are in top shape. Franz Bormann riding Qpita Crazy Luck just won a class S** jumping competition. The [...]

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Dr.-Ing. Peter Hochrainer new member of ConMoto’s management board

We are pleased to welcome Dr.-Ing. Peter Hochrainer as a new member to our management board. He is a trained materials scientist and has more than 13 years [...]

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News Special Vehicles & Energy Supply

Doubling the output of a mobile home manufacturer: Planning and implementing a highly productive assembly

A leading manufacturer of mobile homes set up a project with ConMoto to create the assembly line of the future. The ambitious goal: to double the number of [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

ConMoto sponsors Grand Tour and young showjumping talents

The ConMoto Jumping Days are taking place from September 24th to 27th in Harsum, Germany. Committed to the frontrunners, ConMoto sponsors three S-jumps of the Grand Tour. We [...]

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News Product Development & Cost Reduction

Engineering Made in Germany and 30 percent lower product costs: Impossible? You bet!

Goethe already knew: “The extraordinary does not happen in a smooth, ordinary way.” Successful is who offers their customers the extraordinary. Still, especially world market leaders find it [...]

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News Overcome Corona

Our latest statement regarding the Corona crisis

Between April 2nd, 2020 and May 27th, 2020, we regularly analysed the Corona situation in short intervals and gave clear recommendations for action. Today, on September 2nd, 2020, [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Industry 4.X – An operational and strategic challenge

Industry 4.0 is the term that stands for the digitization of industrial production processes. Big data and cloud services, people communicating with each other via sensors and interfaces, [...]

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News Overcome Corona Strategy & Automation

How automation, international trade conflicts and COVID-19 are changing production networks and the production footprint

The success factors of international production networks – global access to low-cost production sites, overcoming transport and communication barriers, as well as a relaxation of limits to trade [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Digital transformation: Taking advantage of the opportunities of digitization and automation in production

Industry 4.0 and IoT are buzzwords for the transition from analog centralized procedures to fully connected digital and decentralized production processes. Intelligent mechatronic systems offer an enormous added [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

The four-legged ConMotos on the road of success

The show jumping sport is slowly getting back on track. The ConMoto-sponsored horses and riders are performing excellently: ConMoto Qufocolo Crazy Stud, ConMoto Crazy Chara and ConMoto Crazy [...]

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Maintenance News

Process optimization and IT integration – The success formula for the digitization of maintenance

Depending on the industry, maintenance does affect up to 70 percent of direct and indirect production costs. Therefore, an efficient maintenance organisation is a decisive cost lever. It [...]

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Career News

ConMoto named Top Employer in the small and medium-sized company sector for the third year in a row

ConMoto receives the Top Employer 2020 Award For the third time after 2018 and 2019, yourfirm.de has awarded ConMoto as “Top Employer in Small and Medium-Sized Companies”. The [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

Two ConMoto horses win at the equestrian tournament in Harsum

Ferike Bormann on ConMoto Crazy Chara wins the M-class showjumping Just like the economy, equestrian sport is getting back on track. After tournaments were not possible for a [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

19 successful cost reduction projects within the last seven months

ConMoto ensures the competitiveness of clients in different industries Especially when the economic situation is difficult, potential analyses are a proven method and the basis for reducing costs [...]

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News Overcome Corona

Evolving from the crisis: An action plan for quick and sustainable performance

How does your company emerge from crisis mode to productive normal mode quickly? Medicine has developed the concept of rapid recovery. The idea is: during and after a [...]

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The “new” normal

At noon today, the Coronavirus Monitor reports 15,000 confirmed people in Germany who are currently suffering from Covid-19. Altogether, 175,000 infected people have been registered since the first [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News Overcome Corona

Accelerated consolidation in the automotive industry

The Corona crisis is accelerating the upheaval in the automotive industry because the sales gap creates additional pressure. As a result, consolidation will proceed faster than has been [...]

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News Overcome Corona Railroad Industry & Infrastructure

What really helps the economy and companies now

Currently, the whole economy and individual companies are experiencing a unique constellation: a supply shock coupled with a demand shock. Production is suspended because the supply chains are disrupted. [...]

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News Overcome Corona

The shutdown is over!

Politicians have cleared the field for the economy – conditionally, of course. The final decisions are to be made regionally. Wise and quick decisions and actions are important [...]

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Corona and the costs of the crisis

Professor Jens Südekum teaches International Economics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the German Federal Ministry [...]

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Becoming productive again – now!

In May, the production in many companies will ramp-up again. ConMoto’s consultants accompany this process with their expertise. For the tough and competitive months to come, every company [...]

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Rüdiger Feigl new member of ConMoto’s Management Team

Rüdiger Feigl recently joined the management team at ConMoto. The mechanical engineer has more than 20 years of consulting experience as a partner in both renowned large consulting [...]

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News Overcome Corona

The facts and evolving from the crisis

The daily announcement of the reproduction value by the Robert Koch Institute now contributes to confusion rather than clarity. Are these numbers estimates or calculations? As for the [...]

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Dangers during the crisis: obligations and tasks of the management

Time and again we hear that the strict liability for managing directors is suspended during the Corona crisis. This is a misconception that can have serious consequences. ConMoto [...]

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The debates intensify

Current news reports reflect a worsening situation: The EU Commission approves further state aids. The EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, says the EU endeavors with its member [...]

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News Overcome Corona Production System & Restructuring

ConMoto workshop for a quick production ramp-up

Companies are ramping up their production again. Partly, they have considerably more problems than expected – after all, we are speaking about more than “putting some marks on [...]

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After the Corona shutdown

There is light at the end of the tunnel: in May, many production plants will start their ramp-up. But how? And what do companies have to do now? [...]

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The oil prices in free fall as a warning sign and symptom of the crisis

A comment by Dr.-Ing. Ralf Feierabend, ConMoto’s founder and Managing Director The price of oil falls below EUR 0 per barrel! In the U.S. market on Monday, oil [...]

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We have done the right thing: People and economy need relief and a perspective now

So far, all have responded to the appeals of politicians and virologists without grumbling. But now people are starting to question the measures – and that is right! [...]

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Managers in crisis

A comment by Dr.-Ing. Ralf Feierabend, ConMoto’s founder and Managing Director In the memory of us elders, THE crisis manager was former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. He gained [...]

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Decisions during difficult times

Making complex decisions is never easy. During the Corona crisis, existential questions must be answered in very fast order and within rapidly changing framework conditions. There are not [...]

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Corona is a long-term issue: Living and working with the virus

Corona will not disappear from the world anymore. For now, we need to learn to live with Corona  before the risk is reduced to a normal, calculable level [...]

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Career News

ConMoto’s virtual anniversary

On April 1st, 1990 Dr.-Ing. Ralf Feierabend founded ConMoto. Even though celebrating together is not easy in times of social distancing, we at ConMoto did exactly this: within [...]

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Corona – and no end in sight?

Public debt in Germany sums up to approx. 2,000 billion euros. Due to the Corona crisis, the debt will rise to approx. 2,700 to 3,000 billion euros – [...]

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News Overcome Corona Production System & Restructuring

New rules for facility and building planning

We need new ways of thinking to evolve from the crisis. And we need to break with established rules to discard old thinking patterns completely. Examples? If Elon [...]

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Economists are demonstrating initiative – politicians must lead the way towards the end of the shutdown

The German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Peter Altmaier has confirmed the sentiment. That we will have to expect a GDP decrease of 4.8 percent in 2020. [...]

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Our statement regarding the Corona crisis

Unusual times must be critically reflected by the citizens in a democracy. It goes without saying that the measures taken to combat the Corona pandemic are justified. But [...]

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Economy in crisis

Pancession follows pandemic: the global economy faces a deep recession. ConMoto analyzes the studies of economy experts and politicians, adding specific insights from ongoing projects with our clients [...]

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Affected by the shutdown: Setting priorities now

Pancession follows pandemic: the global economy faces a deep recession. ConMoto analyzes the studies of economy experts and politicians, adding specific insights from ongoing projects with our clients [...]

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ConMoto’s Agile Taskforce: safeguarding cash flow and supply chains

The current crisis challenges companies of all sectors. Whereas the food and medical industries are producing at the limits of their capacity, the machines in other fields are [...]

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News Overcome Corona Supply Chain & Logistics

Business resilience in spite of Corona: Protecting supply chains and operations

Disruptions from the Corona virus outbreak (COVID-19) raise awareness of how vulnerable globally interlaced supply chains are: supplier failures, various disturbances and high costs within the delivery chain [...]

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Volker Staack new member of ConMoto’s Executive Board

Dipl.-Kfm. Volker Staack just joined ConMoto’s Executive Board. He possesses more than 17 years of professional experience, both as a partner at renowned top consultancies and smaller companies. [...]

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Maintenance News

Nils Blechschmidt talks maintenance 4.0 at the Global ManuChem Strategies

+++ UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference has been postponed due to the current corona virus outbreak – we will keep you informed as soon as a new date has [...]

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Maintenance News Process Industry & Raw Materials

Annual Handelsblatt conference: potentials for the steel industry

Nils Blechschmidt, Senior Partner and Member of the management team, presented his keynote “Value-oriented maintenance and Maintenance 4.0” at the annual Handelsblatt conference “Zukunft Stahl”. In Düsseldorf, he [...]

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ConMoto Academy & Training holds LEAN trainings for LÄPPLE Group

“We love technology” describes what LÄPPLE Group stands for – including its companies LÄPPLE AUTOMOTIVE, FIBRO and FIBRO LÄPPLE TECHNOLOGY (FLT) as well as LÄPPLE AUS- UND WEITERBILDUNG, [...]

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Season’s Greetings

As we look back upon the past year, we would like to acknowledge our clients, business partners and staff. We appreciate working with you and hope that the [...]

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Career News

ConMoto named “Top employer in the mid-sized sector 2020” by FOCUS-BUSINESS magazine

The FOCUS-BUSINESS editors have appointed ConMoto “Top employer in the mid-sized sector 2020”. In cooperation with the employer rating platform kununu FOCUS-MONEY magazine has analyzed four million ratings [...]

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Maintenance News Process Industry & Raw Materials

ConMoto press review: Maintenance 4.0 in the chemical industry

“cav” magazine, specialized in process technology for the chemical industry, has just published a ConMoto article about the hot topic of Maintenance 4.0. Our writers focus especially on [...]

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ConMoto is looking for engineering skill + technical knowledge + interdisciplinarity

On the occasion of the German Industrial Engineer Day 2019, the book “Industrial Engineering 2019” was issued. Within the scope of the publication, the German Association of Industrial [...]

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News Product Development & Cost Reduction

CapEx optimization: Exploiting procurement potentials

Companies waste good money when it comes to procurement. The main reasons are: Procurement is being included at a much later stage than necessary, Specifications and guidelines are [...]

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Commitment & Sponsoring News

Mastering the ConMoto jump: Finja Bormann fourth in Oldenburg

We are especally happy to hear that Finja Bormann and A Crazy Son of Lavina have mastered the ConMoto jump at the Oldenburg Großer Preis perfectly: the pair [...]

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Career News

ConMoto as an employer: Open and active on kununu

It is a well-known fact: a company’s employees are its most important resource. Therefore, we at ConMoto are especially pleased by the recognition we are receiving at the [...]

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News Supply Chain & Logistics

Prepared for the future? Find out by taking the ConMoto Procurement 4.0 Check!

Does your procurement department have a digitization strategy? Will you be able to profit from the chances of digitization? The ConMoto Procurement 4.0 Check supports you and your [...]

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News Process Industry & Raw Materials

ConMoto press review: Maintenance in the pharmaceutical industry

The “phpro” magazine, specialized in process technology for the pharma industry, had invited several experts from the industry as well as suppliers and service partners to discuss the [...]

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Career News

VWI-interview with ConMoto’s managing partner Dr.-Ing. Ralf Feierabend

Each year the German Association of Industrial Engineers (VWI) conducts a series of interviews – the so-called “Summer Interviews” – with high-profile industrial engineers who are leaders in [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

Curbing costs now: ConMoto‘s new cost reduction study

Cut costs now! The message resounds throughout the offices and production halls of many companies for a variety of reasons: Disruption by technological change and the uncertainty of [...]

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ConMoto donates IT equipment to charity foundation

We are socially engaged – for us, not an obligation, but a privilege! Last week, ConMoto donated 60 Fujitsu notebooks as well as five HP and Canon printers [...]

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ConMoto is one of the best consultants in 2019

For the tenth time, the competition TOP CONSULTANT has honored the best consultants for medium-sized companies in Germany. ConMoto was able to receive one of the coveted trophies [...]

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Ivo Schmincke and Sebastian Eisold new senior partners

Dr.-Ing. Ralf Feierabend, ConMoto’s founder and managing partner, states: „We are very pleased to welcome our new senior partners Ivo Schmincke and Sebastian Eisold as an excellent addition [...]

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Learning Journey to Japan in September 2019

ConMoto are partnering the benchmark learning journey „Lean Production and Leadership – Operational Excellence of Companies in Japan“ in calendar week 40. We are pleased to have Dr. [...]

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Career News

ConMoto introduces innovative mobility kit for employees: Car + e-bike + rail card

Mobility evolves. Company cars are only one of many options to be on the move. Thus, ConMoto has introduced a new mobility initiative that was met with great [...]

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Automotive & Suppliers News Production System & Restructuring

An efficient manufacturing system for the Apollo factory in India

„ConMoto was my extended workbench with our team at the Chennai site – we worked together extremely well,” says Markus Korsten, Chief Manufacturing Officer at Apollo Tyres, with [...]

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ConMoto named „Top Employer 2019 in the mid-sized company sector”

For the second time in a row, ConMoto received the „Top Employer 2019 in the mid-sized company sector“ award from yourfirm.de. The award aims at bringing the advantages [...]

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An all-electric race in Berlin-Tempelhof

The previous weekend saw the Formula E racing world visiting Berlin. To be more precise, itsformer Berlin-Tempelhof airport, an impressive backdrop with a generous main building and light [...]

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Finja Bormann wins her first large tournament

At the Burgturnier in Nörten-Hardenberg, Finja Bormann won the first championship of her career, riding „A crazy son of Lavina“. Starting as the last of five into the [...]

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HWA Racelab scores again at the Paris E-Prix

After some difficulties during qualifying, HWA driver Gary Paffett managed to catch up successfully at the Formula E race in Paris: in the pouring rain, he broke away [...]

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First podium finish for HWA Racelab

Stoffel Vandoorne attained the first podium position for his team HWA Racelab by coming in third at the Formula E Prix in Rome. Congratulations from ConMoto to the [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Medium-sized German companies are still forgoing digitization opportunities

According to the 2018 digitization report of the German development bank KfW, the digitization of smaller and medium-sized companies in Germany is progressing gradually. Between 2015 and 2017, [...]

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Maintenance News

How efficient is your maintenance in the age of Industry 4.0? Find out by taking the ConMoto Maintenance 4.0 HealthCheck©!

Especially within the fields of maintenance and asset management, technical progress has generated numerous possibilities to improve the quality of maintenance in line with the plant efficiency and [...]

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Alfred Blüml joins ConMoto as Senior Partner

We are pleased to welcome Dipl. Wirt-Ing. (FH) Alfred Blüml as a new Senior Partner and shareholder at ConMoto Consulting Group. From 1990 to 1994 he already worked [...]

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Finja Bormann wins second place in Braunschweig

Finja Bormann and „A crazy Son of Lavina“ are in top shape: a week after coming in 11th at the Großer Preis of the Federal Republic of Germany [...]

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Career News

Talking work-life-balance

We offer our consultants a flexible working time model. They may choose between a four-day or five-day workweek whilst receiving the same basic salary. By offering this possibility, [...]

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Fantastic tournament weekend for Finja Bormann in Dortmund

ConMoto congratulates Finja Bormann to an excellent tournament weekend in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle. Riding “A crazy Son of Lavina” at the Preis von Nordrhein-Westfalen, an international S*** show jumping [...]

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ConMoto receives kununu awards

The employer rating portal kununu (profile available in German only) has awarded ConMoto with both the certificates TOP Company and OPEN Company. The kununu employer check supports employees [...]

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Formula E in Hong Kong: HWA Racelab scores initial points

ConMoto congratulates Brit Gary Paffett and the whole team of HWA Racelab on reaching eighth place and collecting their initial four points in the driver’s competition! The excellent [...]

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News Strategy & Automation

Industry 4.0 requires leadership greater than 1.0

In the world of Industry 4.0, digitization is supposed to generate significant efficiency raises and productivity gains. Fair enough. However, in between all those catchphrases like data mining, [...]

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ConMoto Crazy Cato on the mend

Last September, ConMoto Crazy Cato had suffered a severe tendon injury which incurred just at the ConMoto Championscup show jumping during his home tournament in Harsum. Now, his [...]

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„We set things in motion“: ConMoto is going the extra mile with HWA RACELAB

Innovative, contemporary and sustainable mobility – this is what Formula E is representing by bringing future technology onto the race track. ConMoto is a proud advisor and sponsor [...]

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News Product Development & Cost Reduction

ConMoto at the FACTON Conference in Stuttgart, Germany

You can read more about the partnership of FACTON and ConMoto in the flyer “FACTON and ConMoto – Your partners for a cost-optimized value chain”. [...]

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Dr. Henning Bruns new Senior Partner with ConMoto

Dr. Henning Bruns is our new Senior Partner & Managing Director Americas and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group. During his career, he worked in several executive positions [...]

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Michael Colberg new Senior Partner with ConMoto

Michael Colberg is our new Senior Partner and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group GmbH. In his career he worked in several senior positions such as Senior Manager [...]

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ConMoto supports the 50th birthday of Aktion Sonnenschein

The Munich based charity organization „Aktion Sonnenschein – Hilfe für das mehrfach behinderte Kind“ celebrates its 50th birthday with a special event: The Montessori Choir of the charity’s [...]

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Maintenance News

Nils Blechschmidt interviewed by Ralph Szepanski

ConMoto’s Managing Partner Nils Blechschmidt was recently interviewed by the journalist Ralph Szepanski for a series called “The Business Debate”, talking about the role of maintenance and asset [...]

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Maintenance News Process Industry & Raw Materials

ConMoto at the SME Annual Conference in Minneapolis

In a presentation at the 2018 SME ANNUAL CONFERENCE in Minneapolis ConMoto Managing Partner Nils Blechschmidt and Associate Partner Christian Frenzel talked about maintenance and how to apply [...]

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Thomas Klein new Senior Partner with ConMoto

Thomas Klein is a new Senior Partner and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group GmbH. He has more than three decades years professional experience with renowned automobile manufacturers [...]

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Arne Petersen joins ConMoto as Senior Partner

Arne Petersen is a new Senior Partner and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group GmbH. He has more than 13 years of consulting experience in German companies and [...]

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Career News

brand eins “Best Consultants 2017”: another award for ConMoto

Experts of other consulting firms and clients have spoken: ConMoto Consulting Group is among the “Best Consultants 2017”. The yearly survey of the consulting sector is compiled by [...]

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News Production System & Restructuring

ConMoto at the Production Systems in Stuttgart

The ConMoto Consulting Group is sponsor of the Production Systems 2017, a leading event in Lean Management taking place on May 16th and 17th in Stuttgart. CEOs, COOs, [...]

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Dr.-Ing. Christoph Skudelny joins ConMoto as Senior Partner

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Skudelny is a new Senior Partner and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group GmbH. He has 17 years of consulting experience in the fields of operations, [...]

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Portrait of ConMoto in Handelsblatt

Decisive actions with proven positive EBIT effects instead of quasi solutions which look good on paper – that has been ConMoto’s objective since its foundation in 1990. Managing [...]

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Creating the optimal plant with ConMoto Asset Innovation

Asset Innovation is a building block of Maintenance 4.0, taking into account the entire life cycle of plants and machines. Asset Management leads the way to maximize machine [...]

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Matthias Gläser joins ConMoto as Senior Partner

Matthias Gläser is a new Senior Partner and shareholder with the ConMoto Consulting Group GmbH. He has two decades of experience in the industry sector and in consulting. [...]

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Predictive maintenance – fix it, before it fails

Predictive maintenance knows in advance, at which point an assembly line or machine will fail. The new ConMoto White Paper “Maintenance 4.0 – Maintenance Management for the Factory [...]

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Christoph Siegel appointed to be managing partner

Appointing Dr.-Ing. Christoph Siegel to be managing partner, the Con Moto Consulting Group GmbH strengthens its position on the international market for management consultants. Siegel brings 25 years [...]

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Professional personalities wanted

ConMoto is growing its business, turnover rose by more than 20 percent in 2016 and we are pursuing ambitious goals for 2017. Become a vital part of our [...]

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