Range of services
CHORUS Digital is your partner for digitization in the process industry – We accompany you through the various phases of your digitization journey both as a consultant and as an implementer of diverse solutions. We design the path to digital transformation with an integrated project process that maps the complexity and interaction of technology with management, organization and the human factor. In doing so, we are responding to the specific criticism from those responsible in industry that digitization projects are often processed without appropriate consideration of the existing overall complexity.
Tailor-made & custom fit
We handle change with care. In this process, we combine economic, technical and also ecological objectives and thus create multidimensional advantages and future fitness. We take into account technical, economic and socio-cultural aspects when making the necessary investment decisions. We design digital transformation with you as a customized solution and implement the various phases of the digitization of your company together and as a whole. With our range of services, we address specific problems and make an active contribution to solving them – by further developing and optimizing value creation with the tools and methods of digitization and by contributing our expertise to the development of new products, services, processes, and business models.
Our advantage: independence
We as CHORUS Digital are characterized by independence from products (measurement technology, hardware and software) with at the same time a good overview of existing products. Solution alternatives are evaluated with the inclusion of concrete life-cycle considerations with the corresponding long-term perspective in the technical, economic ecological assessment. We do not see digitization as an end in itself, but as a new, more powerful solution category that opens up many opportunities. As a result, the focus is always on optimized, well-designed value creation with clear, measurable savings for the customer.
Development with vision
The greatest challenge in digital transformation projects for existing productions (brownfield) is the appropriate consideration of complexity. Digitization in industry can encompass many things: from automation, to digital transformation, to the connection of already existing “digital images” from logistics and materials management with the concrete data worlds mapping the production process (using many measurement and control points). For example, the targeted handling of big data using complex mathematical mapping and solution models, artificial intelligence, and powerful software enables the digital mapping of complex production processes and technologies.
At CHORUS Digital, we consistently think from a digital perspective, but also make the connection to process engineering, value stream design, and also corporate culture and organizational design. This opens up many starting points and solutions not only within the framework of existing business models and value chains, but also in their modification, further development and new design.
Together with our customers, we further develop their business models with a view to digitization and support them from the concept to the consistent implementation in processes and products or services. In doing so, we jointly develop the technical-logical and the socio-cultural system of the customer’s value stream. People working in the value stream change their approaches and are supported in developing their competencies.
Projects as a central form of service provision
The services are implemented in project form and follow a basic process model with customer/order-specific adaptation (DPIM – Digitalization Process Industry Model). This ensures implementation reliability and optimal use of existing experience.
In project design, the technical-logical and socio-cultural aspects are always considered together and supported by appropriate consulting expertise.
Consulting for the implementation of digitalization, specific work designs, design workshops
We understand digitization in the process industry comprehensively and include the following topics and disciplines in our consulting services.
- Process engineering to work out conclusive cause-effect relationships in order to be able to standardize
- Control technology to create substantial added value across the board and also plant-specifically with high-quality control technology (APC), to design “soft sensors”, to optimally include ambient conditions
- Automation in order to optimally connect the inventory, to provide visualization and to be able to set parameters
- OT, IT, network, database, cloud to use the generated data for traceability (e.g. batch, sustainability) as well as quality traceability to form groups that can serve as a basis for variant configurations
- Architecture work (database, applications, software, frontend) to connect OT and IT to the cloud into a big picture that is designed, implemented and validated
- Economic consideration of the organization in order to implement the expected improvements (e.g. reduction of complaints, rejects, downtime/cleaning, energy use or increases in productivity, output, quality)
- Expenditures or investments must be appropriately compared and appropriate bases must be provided at decision points