Industry wants to produce more regionally and flexibly – factory sharing as a solution
- Survey of 1,500 managers shows: Three quarters want to make production more flexible
- Around one in four factories will be underutilized in the next three years
- "Production as a service" enables flexible and efficient manufacturing
To make their supply chains more resilient, 43 percent of industrial companies worldwide want to produce more regionally. This is shown in the study Boosting Resilience with Production as a Service. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), together with FlexFactory GmbH and WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, surveyed more than 1,500 executives from various industries worldwide. The focus was on the companies' priorities in manufacturing and the organization of their supply chains. According to the survey, three quarters of the surveyed managers would like to be able to adapt production more flexibly to changes in demand in the future.
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