Why DOTF for Digital Transformation?
Most digital projects fail not because of the technology, but because of the gap between delivered capabilities, operational needs and bringing people along. Our team combines deep shop floor expertise with digital transformation experience – we speak both languages.
- We start from customer needs and business process capability, not the software features
- We bring outside-in operational expertise alongside digital strategy
- We ensure the digital landscape serves people and performance – not the other way around
- We stay through implementation, not just the PowerPoint phase
AI for Shop Floor Operations
We help manufacturers harness the power of AI to transform manual assembly and production processes. Through our partnership with leading AI technology providers, we deploy Continuous Improvement Managers and process engineers who work alongside AI platforms to identify inefficiencies, reduce cycle times, and drive continuous improvement at the station level.
Our Role as AI Deployment Companion
Train Your Teams: Structured workshops on AI-powered optimization tools to build operational capability
Analyse Operational Data: Identify bottlenecks and waste – combining AI insights with Lean/CI expertise
Generate Measurable Actions: Drive improvement actions and their implementation directly on the shop floor
Deploy CI Managers: Dedicated managers embedded with customers across Europe
Track & Adjust: Monitor impact continuously – blending AI analytics with hands-on process engineering
SAP Project Implementation Support
SAP implementations are among the most complex and expensive transformation projects a manufacturing company will undertake. We don't replace your SAP integrator – we complement them. As your implementation companion, we ensure the business perspective is never lost in the technical complexity.
What We Deliver
External Project Leadership: Guiding your SAP project manager and team, expert advice in workshops, keeping business requirements in focus
Solution Fitness Guardian: Ensuring SAP configurations serve your business processes and people
ERP Roadmap Definition: Deciding what runs in SAP S/4, what stays in legacy systems, what needs standalone applications
Work Package Coaching: Steering definition sessions for ERP solutions, design software, production applications, personal productivity
Steering Committee Advisory: Independent expert perspective to leadership on progress, risks, and decisions
Multi-Plant Coordination: Harmonizing SAP rollout across headquarters, plants, and subsidiaries with different legacy systems
Data Management & Master Data Strategy
Fragmented data across multiple ERPs, applications and sites is one of the biggest barriers to operational efficiency and scalability. This is critical when it comes to effective AI solutions rollout. We help you build a common data foundation that enables everything else – from purchasing leverage to AI deployment.
What We Deliver
Master Data Harmonization: Common material master data concepts across sites, normalized naming conventions and part classifications
Parts Consolidation: Identifying duplicates across products and sites for standardization
Digital Transformation Enabler: Common master data as prerequisite for any ERP migration or AI deployment
Data Quality Roadmap: Template files, data cleansing pilots, systematic quality improvement, ongoing reporting
Data Governance: Frameworks, policies and organizational structure for long-term data quality
Digital Twin & Virtual Factory
Before you move a single machine, test it virtually. Our Digital Twin Solution partner allows you to simulate factory layouts, production flows, and relocation scenarios in a virtual environment before committing to physical changes.
What We Deliver
Digital Twin Relocation: Move the factory twice: once virtually, once physically
3D Layout Simulation: Production flow optimization, workstation ergonomics, material flow
Virtual Commissioning: Testing equipment configurations digitally to reduce ramp-up time
Shadow Production: Running parallel virtual production to validate changes without disrupting live operations
Implementing AI in Your Organization
Buying AI technology is easy. Making it work in your organization is the hard part. Drawing on insights from ESMT Berlin and our hands-on experience deploying AI tools in manufacturing, we help organizations build AI readiness – from leadership alignment to shop floor adoption.
Our 6-Step AI Readiness Journey
AI Readiness Assessment
Evaluating data maturity, process readiness, and cultural openness for AI
Use Case Identification
Finding AI applications with highest ROI for your specific operations
Pilot Design & Execution
Structured pilots with clear success criteria and scale-up decision gates
Change Management for AI
Training operators and managers, building trust in data-driven decisions
Technology Partner Evaluation
Independent assessment of AI solution providers leveraging our ecosystem
Digitalization Roadmap
Full value chain digital strategy covering ERP, standalone applications, and AI opportunities
Use Case & Success Stories
Real results from real deployments — how we bridge digital technology and shop floor reality.
CI Manager Deployment for AI-Powered Optimization
Context: An AI technology company needed experienced CI managers to deploy alongside their platform at European manufacturing customers – translating AI-generated insights into concrete shop floor improvements.
DOTF Solution: Pool of 11+ profiles across engineering, CI, and operations. 5–20+ years Lean, Six Sigma, digital transformation experience. Dedicated managers deployed to customer factories across Europe.
Implement Digital Roadmap
Challenge: Company operating in S/4 Hana, older SAP versions, and Navision – fragmented information and data. Required adapting digital landscape to serve business processes and people.
- External project leader guiding PM and team, expert advisor in workshops
- Coach solution definition: ERP final solution, design software, MES fitness, personal productivity
- Guardian for solution fitness to business requirement
- Steering committee advisor
Key Figures: 4 FTE consultants · 2 production plants · Central functions · 9 work package streams · 45+ active project team members