BCG’s Innovation Center for Operations immerses our clients in innovation, Industry 4.0, and the use of advanced technologies in operations.
BCG’s Innovation Center for Operations is a network of capabilities and offerings that features 11 model factories across France, Germany, Singapore, Ireland, Brazil, China, and the US. At each of these units, our experts conduct workshops, followed by assessments, which enable business leaders to investigate and experiment firsthand with every aspect of the current manufacturing revolution.
Our Innovation Center for Operations offers a spectrum of services, including model factories, digital mobile labs, tools for quick impact, assessment and solution support, enablement curriculum, and a continuously growing partnership ecosystem. This comprehensive assistance helps clients explore their Industry 4.0 potential.
Visit one of the 11 model factories around the world and immerse yourself in the experience of digital manufacturing and supply chain management.
Each visit includes capability-building sessions, an exchange of ideas with experts, and hands-on testing, including actual production lines. All these interactions are aimed at generating insights about how to optimize your manufacturing strategy and implementation.
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BCG assists you with a comprehensive range of tools and support.
Digital Mobile Labs
Let our mobile labs come to you. Join an interactive workshop, experiment with the latest technologies, and examine how your organization operates before and after embracing digital operations.
Enablement Curriculum
Sometimes you need more than a demonstration to truly comprehend the impact of a specific technology. With 23 modules, our enablement curriculum helps you identify a full range of use cases through expert discussions and experiential learning.
Assessment and Solution Support
See what Industry 4.0 means for your operations by using our proprietary tools. We offer an app for conducting Industry 4.0 health checks on the shop floor, a database of more than 300 proven use cases for Industry 4.0 technologies, and programs to benchmark your own implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions against the market.
Partnership Ecosystem
Each model factory works with leading research and vendor partners in the region to ensure that your experience blends the theoretical with the practical. We also provide access to our extensive database of key technology partnerships.
Tools for Quick Impact
Utilize our mobile demonstrators to access the viability of your shop floor approach or to dive deeply into a specific Industry 4.0 topic and all the alternative approaches available on the market.
Virtual offering
Leverage our immersive virtual workshops to discover the value that cutting-edge technologies can create for manufacturing companies' operations and learn how to scale up your digital transformation.
The experts at our Innovation Center for Operations are top-tier strategy consultants who bring immersion, experimentation, and training to companies around the globe.
New digital technologies can give first adopters an edge over the competition, reducing energy consumption, costs, and complexity.
Companies must remain sharply focused on sound manufacturing practices and employee engagement, even as they adopt advanced technology solutions that are essential for operational excellence.
