Industrial goods and manufacturing
Manufacturers and industrial groups retain Tacitude. Leadership, operations, service and sales teams open projects on the plant footprint, service businesses, new markets, channels and AI on the shop floor.
Customers ask for shorter lead times and more resilient supply chains, while energy, labor and material costs differ by region. Automation, electrification and service contracts are shifting where manufacturers earn their margin.
Projects companies bring us
How should we redesign our European plant footprint, and can three plants carry the volume of five?
Unit cost by plant, freight cost to customers and the one-off cost of moving production lines.
EngagementCost and productivityCan we build a service business on our installed base of equipment?
The size of the installed base, the share we could cover under contract and the margin per service hour.
EngagementNew businessesShould we build a plant in Mexico to serve our North American customers?
Landed cost against current supply, tariff exposure and the time to qualify the plant with customers.
EngagementMarket entry and growthWhich customers should we serve through distributors, and which should we keep direct?
Cost to serve by account size and the margin distributors would take.
EngagementGo-to-market and salesWhere on the shop floor should we apply AI first: quality inspection, maintenance or production planning?
The cost of defects and downtime today, the data our machines already record and the skills on each line.
EngagementDigital and AI strategy
Example projects. Each engagement starts from your own objective or question.
Data your team typically brings
- Volumes and costs by plant and line
- Sales and margin by customer and product
- Installed base and service records
- Freight and supplier costs
Bring us your project
Write to hello@tacitude.com with the project your company has in mind, and we will frame it with your team as an engagement.