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All the way to value
Our Concept: All the Way to Value
The All the Way to Value concept is based on identifying where Epical can support customers' challenges in enterprise asset management within the building blocks of process, support systems, organization, and digitalization solutions. Sometimes the solution may lie in individual building blocks, but often several building blocks need to be combined to create the foundation for reaching all the way to value.
Epical kommer agera rådgivare och erbjuda rätt kombination av lösningar som kommer skapa högst värde utifrån kundens utmaning. Målet är att skapa synergi mellan företagets processer, stödsystem, organisation och digitala lösningar, ju mer dessa byggstenar hänger ihop destå bättre värde kommer skapas.
What Losses Are You Suffering and How Can We Take You All the Way to Value?
For You Who Are a Site Manager
The challenge when facing problems often lies in understanding which part of the organization owns the root cause of the problem, as losses and waste are often caused by each other.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For Those Who Work in Production
One of the biggest challenges is often that one loss generates several new ones. For example, low operational reliability generates high inventory levels, which in turn generate long lead times and costs to avoid poor delivery precision.
Another example could be that long changeover times lead to running large batch sizes, which in turn can cause high levels of WIP (Work in Progress) when you have to break down the batch to make way for another, much more important one. This can also result in significant quality issues when things go wrong. If there is a significant difference in what is processed for each item produced, there is also a high risk of overloading the system from time to time, which often leads to new errors.
So it's easy to fall into a vicious cycle with a lot of losses and waste that characterize everyday life. However, it becomes a virtuous cycle if you eliminate or reduce the losses and waste that cause new ones.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For Those Who Work with Maintenance
One of the biggest challenges can be that your organization finds it more enjoyable to fix errors urgently rather than prevent them and run a more planned operation. If this focus is not changed, it means that although errors are likely fixed quickly due to frequent practice, the production process is characterized by many stops, which in turn creates system losses when the equipment interferes with each other. If long breakdowns also characterize everyday life, production and logistics become difficult to plan.
Production compensates for this with inventory, more personnel, extra shifts, or parallel equipment that might not have been needed if operational reliability was in place to ensure delivery precision. However, the maintenance cost can be lower in such a reactive operation than if the "maintenance debt" did not exist. On the other hand, the indirect maintenance costs and lost production related to poor operational reliability are often significantly higher.
Thus, operational reliability work requires high discipline, where most investments in money and commitment are about being able to foresee problems before they become a reality. This work starts already in the acquisition process and continues throughout the entire lifespan of the equipment until it is disposed of.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For Those Who Work with Inventory
Förrådet hanterar stora förrådsvärden som måste vara korrekta ur ett myndighetsperspektiv och lagervärdet behöver hela tiden optimeras till att spegla behovet av leveranssäkerhet på alla artiklarna. För höga lagerhållningskostnader kommer att ha en direkt påverkan på verksamhetens lönsamhet. Likaså kan dålig leveranssäkerhet på förrådsartiklarna leda till dålig leveransprecision i produktionen. Detta kompenserar i så fall produktionen för med lager, mer personal, extra skift eller parallella utrustningar som kanske inte behövts om leveranssäkerheten på förrådsartiklarna fanns på plats för att säkra sin leveransprecision. Vilka är era största förluster? Våra tjänster är paketerade att ta er Hela vägen till värde oavsett förlust.
For you who Work with Purchasing
Purchasing handles both large and small purchases, and it is important to buy the item from a supplier who can deliver the right quantity with the right quality at the right price. You want to find suppliers who themselves have a supply chain with minimal waste and losses, who can maintain high delivery precision and quality at an attractive price. Therefore, follow-up, order, and control of your suppliers are just as important as ensuring delivery monitoring of each purchase.
A poorly managed purchasing process can create indirect losses in maintenance inventory and production, and lead to the business making incorrect investments or paying too much for what is procured.
Purchasing plays a very central role in the acquisition process where the right choice of equipment and supplier can be crucial for the productivity that the acquired equipment can achieve during its lifespan and how it will, in turn, affect the value flow where the equipment will be included.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For you as a Site Manager responsible for the overall enterprise asset management work in the organization, the goal and focus are generally on delivering the right number of items with the right quality at the right time and at a low cost. There is also a responsibility to ensure that the operation has high personnel safety, meets occupational health and safety requirements, and has the lowest possible environmental impact. Many of the key performance indicators that are monitored are summaries that reflect the sum of the ownership delegated down in your organization.
The challenge when facing problems often lies in understanding which part of the organization owns the root cause of the problem, as losses and waste are often caused by each other.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For you as a Production Manager responsible for operations and production in the business, the goal and focus are generally on delivering the right number of items with the right quality at the right time and at the lowest possible production and inventory cost. There is also a responsibility to ensure that the business has high personnel safety and the lowest possible environmental impact.
One of the biggest challenges is often that one loss generates several new ones. For example, low operational reliability generates high inventory levels, which in turn generate long lead times and costs to avoid poor delivery precision.
Another example could be that long changeover times lead to running large batch sizes, which in turn can cause high levels of WIP (Work in Progress) when you have to break down the batch to make way for another, much more important one. This can also result in significant quality issues when things go wrong. If there is a significant difference in what is processed for each item produced, there is also a high risk of overloading the system from time to time, which often leads to new errors.
So it's easy to fall into a vicious cycle with a lot of losses and waste that characterize everyday life. However, it becomes a virtuous cycle if you eliminate or reduce the losses and waste that cause new ones.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For you as a Maintenance Manager responsible for operational reliability in the business, the goal and focus are generally on creating reliable operations and production with high personal safety at the most accurate maintenance cost possible.
One of the biggest challenges can be that your organization finds it more enjoyable to fix errors urgently rather than prevent them and run a more planned operation. If this focus is not changed, it means that although errors are likely fixed quickly due to frequent practice, the production process is characterized by many stops, which in turn creates system losses when the equipment interferes with each other. If long breakdowns also characterize everyday life, production and logistics become difficult to plan.
Production compensates for this with inventory, more personnel, extra shifts, or parallel equipment that might not have been needed if operational reliability was in place to ensure delivery precision. However, the maintenance cost can be lower in such a reactive operation than if the "maintenance debt" did not exist. On the other hand, the indirect maintenance costs and lost production related to poor operational reliability are often significantly higher.
Thus, operational reliability work requires high discipline, where most investments in money and commitment are about being able to foresee problems before they become a reality. This work starts already in the acquisition process and continues throughout the entire lifespan of the equipment until it is disposed of.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For you as a Warehouse Manager responsible for inventory management in the business, the goal and focus are generally on ensuring the availability of all inventory items at the lowest possible storage cost.
The warehouse handles large inventory values that must be accurate from a regulatory perspective, and the inventory value needs to be continuously optimized to reflect the need for delivery reliability of all items. High storage costs will have a direct impact on the profitability of the business. Similarly, poor delivery reliability of inventory items can lead to poor delivery precision in production. In such cases, production compensates with inventory, more personnel, extra shifts, or parallel equipment that might not have been needed if the delivery reliability of inventory items was in place to ensure delivery precision.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
For you as a Purchasing Manager responsible for operational and more strategic purchasing in the business, the goal and focus are generally on ensuring that purchases are made cost-effectively and handled correctly.
Purchasing handles both large and small purchases, and it is important to buy the item from a supplier who can deliver the right quantity with the right quality at the right price. You want to find suppliers who themselves have a supply chain with minimal waste and losses, who can maintain high delivery precision and quality at an attractive price. Therefore, follow-up, order, and control of your suppliers are just as important as ensuring delivery monitoring of each purchase.
A poorly managed purchasing process can create indirect losses in maintenance inventory and production, and lead to the business making incorrect investments or paying too much for what is procured.
Purchasing plays a very central role in the acquisition process where the right choice of equipment and supplier can be crucial for the productivity that the acquired equipment can achieve during its lifespan and how it will, in turn, affect the value flow where the equipment will be included.
What are your biggest losses?
Our services are packaged to take you all the way to value regardless of loss.
How Can We Help You All the Way to Value?
We help you develop Enterprise Asset Management based on processes, organization, support systems, and digital solutions to achieve full value.
