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Factory of the Future Consulting
Automation strategy & tactical roadmaps to transform your manufacturing operations.
Your Partner for What’s Possible
Invio Automation’s Factory of the Future (FotF) consulting team is a trusted advisor for manufacturing companies seeking to modernize their operations via process improvement, industrial automation and digital factory solutions.
We work with our customers to collaboratively define their automation strategy. Our workshop approach helps identify and prioritize opportunities to improve the factory floor, from work-station design to lights-out automated solutions.
What makes our approach different?
Full Suite of Solutions
We approach problems with a continuous improvement mindset. Automation is just one of many ways to increase throughput. We look at material flows, lean manufacturing discipline, and operational process design. Our goal is to identify the right solution and technology for your specific need.
Proven ideas, grounded in reality
Machine Builders First. Invio has successfully delivered tooling and automation to factory floors for over 65 years. Our recommendations are grounded in reality. Every idea we investigate results in a tactical, implementable project opportunity.
Industry agnostic, brand agnostic
As a turnkey custom automation systems integrator for a diverse base of industries, we can help guide your teams in identifying the best solution for the application area, regardless of vendor or component supplier.
Holistic approach
We aim to deliver a holistic set of recommendations. Our deliverables provide not only an automation concept, but also a business case, CAPEX & ROI guidance, implementation plans, and organizational / training considerations.
Typical Statements of Work
- Automation Feasibility Evaluation
- Automation Readiness Audit
- CAPEX Planning
- ROI Assessment
- Bottleneck Alleviation
- Robotic Process Concepting and Simulation
- Throughput Study
- Discreet Event Simulation
- Direct Labor Savings
- Opportunity Mapping
- Investor Due Diligence
- Design for Automation / Design for Manufacturing
- Greenfield Facility Process Design
- Layout & Flow Optimization
- Material Handling Automation Assessments
- Tooling Concept Development
- Digital Factory Pilot Projects
- Proof of Principle / Process Prototyping
- Manufacturing Engineering Services (embedded contract support)
How it Works: Collaboratively Defining an Automation Strategy
Outcomes
Comprehensive Overview
For every project, we deliver a tactical, overview that includes current state evaluation results, future state system specifications, expected technical challenges with recommendations to mitigate those risk, a supporting business Case, and a plant transformation roadmap.
Reduces Time for Critical Decisions
The FotF process and approach gathers key stakeholders early in the process. This helps build consensus and create alignment on major investment decisions earlier. Our process aims to involve a cross-functional group so that more points of view are heard and incorporated into the long term project charters.
Foundational Roadmap Development
The aim of the FotF team is to serve as a collaborative partner working side-by-side with the customer’s engineering, product design, quality, and executive teams to develop the blueprints and roadmaps for transforming their factories to meet their future vision and business goals / objectives.
De-Risking Automation Deployment Decisions
The goal of the Factory of the Future team is to invest early in key engineering activities—pulling forward about 3-5% of a project’s total cost—to de-risk the overall scope and budget of major initiatives. The structured process greatly reduces uncertainties and potential risks, paving the way for transformational projects.
Utilize Our Expertise for Sustained Success
With a wealth of knowledge on what different technologies can achieve, and insights from successful thousands of deployments elsewhere, we help manufacturers navigate the right path to effectively deploying automation and robotics that can successfully scale across an enterprise.