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Expectations and risks
Personnel saving
- staff costs
- costs for equipment
- quality aspects
Costs structure
- regularity and possibility to
be calculated
- liquidity effects
Precision
- errors and damages
- system’s transparency
- real-time information
Integration
- machine and control
- other departments
- overcome local thinking
Long-term inflexibility
new products, packing material
etc. after 5 years (or over-
dimensioning)
Short-term inflexibility
- daily or hourly peaks
- reducing delivery time
(or over-dimensioning)
Failure risk
- grave consequences
- partial switching off,
emergency operation ...
Maintenance, energy
from investment per year
- 5-10% for maintenance
- 3-5% for spare parts
Bringing into service
- disturbances, changes
- old and new run parallel
- delayed staff release
Expectations
Risks
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