Production Management

Prof. Thomas Friedli

Our Vision

We support industrial organizations in multiple sectors and regions in their strategic planning and implementation of improvement initiatives.

Our Production Management offers industrial organizations both industry and functional expertise, consulting and benchmarking competencies, and academic research from a single source. In close cooperation with each client, our experienced team of managers, consultants, and academics produces tangible and positive results. Find out how you can benefit most from our services.

News

Find all news articles in our archive.

News

14 NOV 2018

FDA Quality Metrics Research - New report published!

After intensive weeks to wrap up the second year of research, our Year 2 Report was finally released on November 7, 2018 with a keynote of Prof. Friedli at the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering ISPE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

News

07 NOV 2018

Lean2020 - The Future of Operational Excellence

Lean management remains the most important production paradigm, even after more than 25 years.

News

07 NOV 2018

Production Management Conference 2018

Looking back at a successful conference in October 2018

Our focus areas

Global Production

Michael Wiech | Christian Elbe | Dominik Remling | Philipp Miedler

Managing global operations is not only a matter of optimising single sites, it is about unlocking the potentials of a manufacturing network. Our integrated approach to configure and coordinate global operations aligns business with manufacturing strategy. We offer approaches, solutions and the latest research results to your challenges in the field of global manufacturing.

Contact: Michael Wiech

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Smart Manufacturing & Services

Growing product commoditization, more complex customer needs and digitalization drive manufacturing companies to increasingly shift to service-oriented business models. Our research activities and industry collaborations provide new and actionable insights on how to leverage smart services that are based on digitalized products and production processes.

Contact: Lorenz Stähle

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Operational Excellence

Research and industry projects in over 10 years enabled us to build an extensive knowledge base on how to support companies on their journey to Operational Excellence. We have the world’s largest independent Operational Excellence Pharma benchmarking database. The close collaboration with our industry partners leads to customised solutions and actionable project outcomes. Join us at our workshops to get the latest insights or read about the results of our FDA Quality Metrics Research.

Contact: Stephan Köhler

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Swiss Manufacturing Survey

Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli | Christian Elbe | Dominik Remling

The aim of the annual survey is to present the current situation of the manufacturing industry in Switzerland in a meaningful way and to reflect a possible structural change through its long-term orientation. The focus on manufacturing companies provides new information that is sometimes insufficiently collected by other surveys. This transparency enables companies, associations, scholars and politics to identify and analyse developments and trends and to act accordingly.

Contact: Christian Elbe

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St. Gallen Production Management Conference

Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli | Moritz Classen | Julian Macuvele

Our 2018 conference focussed on "Sustaining and Restoring our Competitive Edge". You can find a few impressions here.

The target group of the conference are managing directors, plant and production managers as well as managers from production-related areas of industrial companies. The next issue will take place on 22^nd and 23^rd October 2019 at the Hotel Einstein Congress in St. Gallen.

Contact: Moritz Classen

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Team

Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli

Professor of Technology Management with special focus on Production Management

Director Institute of Technology Management

Manuela Landert

Personal Assistant to Prof. Dr. Thomas Friedli

Dr. Lukas Budde

Project Leader