KLOEPFEL by EPSA - engineering offers solutions for efficient cost and process optimization in manufacturing.
Many manufacturing companies struggle with excessively high production costs, which result in products becoming too expensive and orders being lost. High costs, inefficient processes and a lack of transparency make it difficult to remain competitive.
KLOEPFEL by EPSA - engineering brings structure to your production. We analyze your cost structures, uncover potential savings and optimize your production processes in a targeted manner. This allows you to sustainably reduce your manufacturing costs and increase efficiency at the same time.
We also support private equity companies in the valuation and certification of manufacturing companies. We evaluate machinery and employee performance to make the true value and performance of your production transparent.
With KLOEPFEL by EPSA - engineering you create cost transparency, reduce waste and secure your long-term competitiveness.
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The advantages of KLOEPFEL by EPSA - engineering
Advice from the field
We come from the industry and know the challenges from our own experience. Our team of technologists and cost engineers brings in-depth know-how and develops solutions that work in everyday life. We focus on solutions that can be implemented quickly and reliably.
Tailor-made process optimization with cost control
With our in-house developed Cost Control calculation software, we precisely map your specific processes. Our in-house developers adapt Cost Control flexibly and thus create maximum informative value and optimization potential in all areas. The software draws on extensive and diverse databases, for example on material costs, machine rates and hourly rates. This provides you with tailor-made solutions that make your costs transparent and enable effective process optimization. Another advantage: you can work directly with the tool without having to carry out time-consuming data maintenance.
Engineering experience and tool expertise
By combining tool expertise and engineering experience, we identify cost drivers, evaluate products holistically and drive product optimization in order to sustainably reduce your manufacturing costs. In this way, we create transparency and enable well-founded decisions for your success.
Making the CO₂ footprint in the supply chain transparent
We are one of the few providers on the market that enable a CO₂ assessment at product level. This provides you with the basis for sustainable decisions and at the same time meets growing regulatory requirements.
KLOEPFEL by EPSA - Engineering:
Service modules for optimizing your production
Cost management
With our modular cost management service, we support you in systematically identifying cost potential, making it transparent and optimizing it in a targeted manner - across the entire value chain.
Our four powerful modules are:
- Cost engineering: With our cost engineering approach, we systematically analyze your products for design, manufacturing and economic optimization potential, enabling cost-efficient designs without compromising on function or quality.
- Target costing: We help you to define market-oriented target costs and anchor these across all departments as a binding control parameter to ensure cost-conscious product development right from the start.
- Cost Breakdown: We analyze your products down to the last detail by transparently breaking down material, process and overhead costs. This creates a sound basis for decision-making in price negotiations, discussions with suppliers and internal profitability analyses.
- Make or Buy: Based on objective data and well-founded analyses, we support you in making a strategic decision between in-house production and external procurement, taking costs, risks, capacities and strategic orientation into account.
Product design and development
Our product design and development service has a modular structure and offers you various methods to optimally combine design and cost awareness. Our approach combines creative design with economic efficiency so that you can create products that are both inspiring and profitable.
Our four high-performance modules are:
- Design to cost: We integrate cost targets directly into the product development process, from the initial idea to the final design. We make sure that all decisions are geared towards cost-effectiveness. This results in a design that not only works, but also pays off economically.
- Design to Manufacturing: Our experts optimize your product development specifically for subsequent production in order to simplify processes, reduce manufacturing costs and increase production reliability. We take all relevant manufacturing aspects into account to ensure smooth implementation.
- Manufacturing to Cost: We analyze your existing production processes and make hidden cost drivers visible, from material consumption to machinery and personnel deployment. Based on sound data, we develop concrete approaches to reduce manufacturing costs and thus measurably increase your production efficiency.
- Product Benchmarking: We analyze technical design, cost structures and marketability using structured comparisons with competitor products. This provides you with valuable insights that give you clear impetus for your product strategy and positioning.
Process optimization and evaluation
Our modular process optimization and evaluation service helps you to make processes more efficient and systematically identify potential. This allows you to increase productivity and quality along your production and value chain.
Our two powerful modules are:
- Industrial engineering: We comprehensively analyze your production and business processes and develop tailor-made concepts to increase efficiency. We use proven methods to shorten throughput times, make optimum use of resources and sustainably reduce costs.
- Production evaluation and optimization: We evaluate your production processes in detail and identify bottlenecks and potential for improvement. Based on these analyses, we implement practical measures to make your production more efficient, flexible and economical.
Energy optimization:
This module combines cost management with product design and development to minimize energy consumption throughout the entire product life cycle. We analyze your products and processes for energy efficiency and develop strategies that reduce operating costs while promoting sustainability.
CO2 footprint:
As a link between product design and development as well as process optimization and evaluation, we record and evaluate the CO2 footprint of your products and manufacturing processes. In this way, we create the basis for environmentally conscious decisions that support both ecological and economic goals.
Cost Control
uncovers cost drivers
Cost Control helps you to reduce product costs and increase product quality at the same time. The tool provides transparency on all relevant cost elements in purchasing and production. This allows you to identify cost drivers at an early stage, validate supplier prices and optimize your processes along the entire value chain.
Cost Control answers these questions, among others:
- Do you have fair purchasing conditions in line with the market, even for special parts or monopolists?
- Do you have full transparency in purchasing and procurement costs?
- Do your suppliers openly and transparently disclose their calculations?
- Is your production optimally matched to your products?
- Which manufacturing process causes which manufacturing costs?
- Do you know the cost drivers of your products?
- Are all value creation stages in your supply chain optimally coordinated?
Your benefits with Cost Control:
- Simulate and calculate product costs with all relevant cost influencing factors.
- Increase the transparency of procurement costs and manufacturing costs to 100 percent.
- Increase efficiency in purchasing and validate supplier prices.
- Identify cost drivers as early as the design phase.
- Optimize the productivity of your production by selecting suitable manufacturing processes and equipment.
- Use the tool flexibly along the entire value chain and in supply chain management.
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Our manufacturing processes
We optimize your product costs
Sheet metal technology
Procedures that are supported
- Gas-shielded arc welding MAG, MIG, MAG pulse, TIG.
- Resistance welding (spot welding)
- Ultrapulse welding
- Friction welding
- Electrode welding
- Submerged arc welding
- Plasma welding
- Laser welding
- Electron steel welding
- Roll seam welding
- Cold pressure welding
Electric motors
Fügen
Procedures that are supported
- Fügen
- Manual and robotic welding
- Calculation similar to MTM
Casting process
Procedures that are supported
- Croning (mask molding process)
- Die casting
- Investment casting
- Gravity die casting
- Sand casting
- Injection molding
Cable assembly
Assembly
Procedures that are supported
- Single mounting
- Series mounting
- Flow assembly
Printed circuit board assembly
Surfaces
Procedures that are supported
- Electroplating
- Hardening
- Varnishing
Machining
Procedures that are supported
- Turning
- Drilling and tapping
- Milling
- Saws
- Loops
Customer successes that speak for themselves:
Cost structure analysis / negotiation monopolist
Our customer, a leading manufacturer of drive solutions for conveyor technology, was faced with continuously rising purchase prices for a key component: the roller motor used to control logistics conveyor belts. The supplier of the component was effectively acting as a monopolist and regularly enforced price increases. The aim was to create transparency with the help of a detailed cost structure analysis and to develop a sound basis for price negotiations. Overall, this resulted in a verifiable savings potential of €650,000.
Benchmarking
Our client, the world's leading provider of premium household appliances for kitchens, laundry and floor care, was faced with a low profit margin. At the same time, there was no valid benchmark for comparison with competitor products on the market.
The aim was to create cost transparency across the competition and to develop a technically and economically optimized best practice variant. A total savings potential of €7,000,000 was identified across all variants.
Production optimization of a chain rail
Our customer, the oldest printing press manufacturer in the world, develops highly specialized printing systems and the associated peripherals. The focus was on a chain rail whose function is to precisely guide a chain within the printing machine. Previously, the component was manufactured using a complex flame-cutting and milling process.
The aim was to create full cost transparency and identify more economical production options. In total, we realized a documented savings potential of € 372,600.
Our expertise for your production optimization
The KLOEPFEL by EPSA engineering team has over 25 years of experience in the manufacturing industry. The realization that many companies lack transparency about product costs led to the development of Cost Control.
After intensive development work, a powerful tool was created, Cost Control, which is used in purchasing departments to validate purchase prices, in work preparation to select production resources and in production to ensure productivity.
We have expertise in more than 20 industries, from mechanical engineering to medical technology, and achieve average cost savings of 15-30%.
Our team helps you to optimize your cost structure, increase efficiency and secure productivity in the long term.
"With Cost Control, we not only offer companies a tool for cost control, but also a sustainable solution for increasing efficiency, making optimum use of resources and securing the future of production."
With in-depth expertise in over 20 industries, from mechanical engineering to medical technology, we regularly achieve cost savings of 15-30%. Our team supports you in improving your cost structures in a targeted manner, making processes more efficient and securing productivity in the long term.
You can rely on the satisfaction of our customers.
Optimize production now efficiently, quickly and sustainably.
