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Consulting for Industrials: Ensuring Marketability

Rising cost pressures, a shortage of skilled workers, and the complexity of global supply chains are posing challenges for companies. As an international boutique management consultancy for industry and mechanical engineering, KBC helps you make the transition from theoretical strategy to measurable implementation. Whether in complex plant engineering or in series production: With practical concepts, we ensure your profitability and sustainably shorten the time from initial idea to market launch. Learn here how you can successfully translate your concepts into operational reality with our help.

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Jakob le Claire
Senior Partner
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Jakob le Claire

Senior Partner at KBC and management consultant specializing in data and AI, with over 9 years of experience in the industrial and mechanical engineering sectors.

Challenges in Industrials

Shrinking margins, slow innovation cycles, and pressure to globalize: Countless companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector are facing profound upheavals. What is needed here is industry consulting that combines technical expertise with the ability to drive operational implementation. KBC understands your specific challenges—whether it’s complex project-based work involving single-unit production or highly efficient mass production. With deep industry knowledge gained from decades of management consulting, we consistently focus on actionable strategies rather than writing theoretical concepts. As true partners, we support you every step of the way until you achieve measurable success in your day-to-day operations.

Lack of profitability in plant engineering

In complex large-scale projects, unforeseen costs and gaps in cost estimates can jeopardize your project margin.

Low margins in the product business

Competitive pressure and rising production costs mean that your profit per unit is no longer sufficient.

Lack of innovative capacity

Without targeted innovation, it is difficult to consistently stand out from the competition and secure market share.

Slow time-to-market

Unclear coverage and gaps in slow development cycles prevent you from bringing the right products to market quickly enough.

High complexity

The lack of modularity and standardization in your product portfolio makes it difficult to process orders efficiently.

Challenges in global positioning

A shortage of skilled workers and cost pressures are hindering the organizational adjustments needed to adapt to globalization.

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Industry and mechanical engineering, symbolized by a gear

Companies that benefit from consulting services for the industrials

KBC supports companies across the entire industrial value chain—from custom one-off manufacturing and complex large-scale projects to the production of standardized components. As an experienced management consulting firm specializing in industrial goods and mechanical engineering, we work with plant manufacturers and traditional mechanical engineering companies as well as highly specialized tooling firms.

Consulting Approaches for Industrials

In addition to operational excellence projects, KBC’s consulting services—as a boutique consulting firm specializing in industry and mechanical engineering—include support for your supply chain management as well as for innovation and sustainability initiatives.

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Strategy for operational excellence depicted by a speedometer and a euro symbol with a downward-pointing arrow

Strategy for Operational Excellence

To enhance competitiveness in the industrial and mechanical engineering sectors, it is essential to combine the efficiency of mass production with the flexibility of custom projects. Through its Operational Excellence consulting services, KBC supports you in achieving sustainable process optimization as well as consistent cost reduction at the product and project levels. You will not receive theoretical savings potentials, but rather actionable concepts that secure your margins and strengthen your competitiveness.

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Supply chain management represented by a chain consisting of the elements product, factory, and gear

Supply Chain Management

In a volatile market environment, resilient supply chains are crucial. KBC optimizes your global value creation through supply chain management and brings transparency to material and information flows. Whether you’re seeking a strategic realignment of your procurement functions or looking to boost efficiency in your production operations, we implement the right control mechanisms to reduce inventory, enhance your delivery capabilities, and position your organization to compete successfully on the global stage.

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Innovation consulting depicted by a light bulb with a magnifying glass

Innovation Consulting

Rapid innovation cycles and efficient time-to-market are critical competitive factors in industry and mechanical engineering. KBC helps you significantly shorten the path from initial concept to market readiness: Through intelligent modularization and standardization, we reduce complexity right from the design phase. We guide you through product development and ensure a smooth ramp-up so that innovations go into series production on schedule and with high quality.

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Sustainability strategy illustrated by a box with an arrow pointing to a sheet of paper

Sustainability Strategy

In industry, sustainability is far more than just a mandatory requirement—it is a driver of efficiency and market competitiveness. KBC helps you integrate environmental requirements into your strategy in a way that ensures they remain economically viable. From optimizing your value chain to circular business models such as remanufacturing, we develop solutions that overcome regulatory hurdles and turn sustainability into a competitive advantage.

Real-world examples from industrials

Management Consulting forindustrials: By the Numbers

CAPEX expenditures
Increased productivity
CO2 emissions
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This is how we view consulting for industrials

For our consulting services, it is essential that we have a detailed understanding of the mechanisms at work in the industry. That is why KBC employs primarily experts from the manufacturing and mechanical engineering sectors. We work closely with our clients on-site until the new processes are fully operational in their day-to-day business.

Jakob le Claire
Senior Partner at KBC

Topics that strengthen your business

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Innovation

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Product Development

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Supply Chain Management

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Answers that drive the industry and mechanical engineering companies forward

How can I get to market faster?

Friction at internal interfaces—such as between development and production—often delays time-to-market. As an international boutique consulting firm with experience in industry and mechanical engineering, KBC helps you effectively integrate these areas and consistently focus on market readiness.

In our BOLD KBC Center for Innovation , we identify and support the further development of innovations so that you achieve measurable results on both the product and cost sides. In this way, ideas do not get stuck in the planning phase but move quickly into series production and contribute measurably to your company’s success from day one.

How can I systematically cut costs?

Cost savings require that cost structures be made transparent throughout the entire lifecycle: Where are resources going unused? Where are processes unnecessarily complex?

This is where KBC comes in, evaluating your processes and products for cost-effectiveness to identify potential savings. This not only increases your margins but also gives you back the financial flexibility needed to make strategic decisions.

How can I effectively implement change initiatives?

Many companies have good ideas but struggle to put them into practice because established structures and the pressures of day-to-day operations slow down implementation. To ensure that solutions are fully realized, KBC supports you every step of the way—from the initial analysis to on-site operational support. This ensures that change initiatives don’t fizzle out but are successfully integrated from the strategy document into your day-to-day operations.

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Jakob le Claire
Senior Partner

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Whether it’s supply chain management, sustainability, or innovation: In a brief discussion, we’ll determine which steps make sense and how KBC— an international boutique consulting firm based in Munich —can help you move forward.

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