Global companies can achieve growth through modular architecture
Modular architecture is placing an increasing number of companies at the forefront of their industries. A cross-functional product design and manufacturing approach, modularity improves a company's competitiveness as it solves complex problems and improves business efficiency.
Modular architecture is placing an increasing number of companies at the forefront of their industries. A cross-functional product design and manufacturing approach, modularity improves a company's competitiveness as it solves complex problems and improves business efficiency.
Taking operational and developmental efficiency to the next level for companies, Modular Management built a systematic tool to implement easily the modular philosophy in organisations.
"Customers come to us when they encounter a business complexity that they can't handle," says Alex von Yxkull, president and CEO. "We apply modularity as the medicine for this. It then becomes the principle for these companies to run their businesses."
Applying modularity as a foundation for tailoring products to the needs and requirements of customers, Modular Management works with high-volume companies to multiply product variants while shortening production times. Modular Management's implementation of Whirlpool's product architecture, for instance, has significantly reduced inventory levels and total costs, and achieved a leaner overhead structure for the global appliance maker.
Modular Management also applies the same technology to support the needs of low-volume, engineer-to-order companies, including service and software firms. It offers pre-designed modules and systems that minimise complexity and time-to-market while reducing costs by as much as 5 per cent annually for companies.
More than a management consultant, Modular Management acts as a problem-solver for all types and scales of companies. Its offerings range from strategy, architecture development, supply chain and production set-ups to calculation of implementation effects.
Having worked on more than 70 projects with global companies such as Trane, Dynapac, Whirlpool and Volvo, Modular Management's experience is unparalleled. It supports the demand for strategic management consulting in Asia by establishing an office in China and employing Chinese-speaking professionals for smooth co-operation.
"Modularity is a tool for us to connect European and Asian companies," von Yxkull says. "We want to make a difference with such specialist competence."
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