Manufacturing

You’re driving productivity while managing aging equipment and rising costs. Together, we’ll transform your manufacturing operations into competitive advantages that deliver measurable results.

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Factory Planning

Operational Excellence

Operations Footprint

Smart Factory

Transforming Manufacturing in a Volatile and Digital World

As a manufacturing leader, you face urgent pressures like disruptive technologies, sustainability targets, geopolitical shifts, talent shortages, and cost pressures, all while navigating the transition to smarter, leaner operations. Traditional approaches struggle to keep pace as complexity grows. Inefficient footprints, outdated processes, and disconnected systems block performance and delay transformation.

Whether launching a new production site, scaling digital tools, or redesigning operations, your success depends on aligning factory design, execution, and strategic goals.

EFESO supports you in bridging the gap between vision and execution, helping you unlock value in every part of your manufacturing system. We bring decades of experience to co-design scalable improvements that integrate digital, organizational, and operational levers—ensuring performance today and adaptability for tomorrow.

Meet our Manufacturing Leaders

Bas Koetsier

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Dr. Kai Magenheimer

Partner

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Real Results Achieved with our Clients

Up to 40%

Faster manufacturing ramp-ups

25–40%

OEE improvement supported by AI-enabled operations

Up to 30%

CapEx reduction via modular factory design

A Tailored and Pragmatic Approach that Fits your Reality

EFESO helps you enhance manufacturing performance across four key areas: operational excellence, smart factory deployment, operations footprint, and factory planning. We assess your maturity and design transformation paths that align with your strategic goals. From layout design to AI implementation and performance coaching, our teams work side by side with yours, ensuring results that are scalable, data-driven, and sustainable.

Humanizing Industry 4.0

At EFESO and Solvace, we believe success lies in fostering true collaboration: between people and machines, shop floor and top floor. To understand how organizations are addressing this shift, we interviewed leaders from A2A, AMS Osram, Avebe, Cargill, Faurecia, Lamborghini, Philip Morris, Saint-Gobain and Sandvik. Their perspectives reveal how empowering connected workers can accelerate digital transformation.

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Manufacturing Client Results

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Chemicals

One Operations Community: Strong Performance on Every Playground

A global chemical company launched a joint performance improvement initiative with EFESO across twelve plants on four continents. Significant improvements in cost drivers and margins were achieved.

Automotive and Commercial Vehicles

Private Equity

Automotive Supplier Doubles Scale Through Strategic M&A Integration

Industrial machinery manufacturer faced complexity in custom equipment production. We implemented modular design principles, standardized components, and optimized project management, reducing lead times by 40%.

Automotive and Commercial Vehicles

End-to-End Profitability Program for Global Automotive Supplier

Automotive supplier needed profitability improvement for complex drive components. We established end-to-end value optimization, supplier collaboration, and cost engineering, improving margins across entire value chain.

The EFESO Touch

With over 40 years of experience, EFESO has delivered more than 1,000 manufacturing transformations across industries and regions. Our strength lies in combining strategic vision with real-world execution—on the shop floor, with your people. Whether transforming greenfield sites, upgrading digital capabilities, or redesigning your operations network, we embed capabilities for long-term impact.

Our expertise spans lean, TPM, WCOM™ (World Class Operations Management), smart automation, and digital twin technologies. Clients choose EFESO because we co-create results that last—enhancing operational systems, building resilient footprints, and accelerating performance across every stage of the manufacturing lifecycle.