The Factory Roadmap is a comprehensive assessment of an industrial site: it evaluates its maturity, ranks improvement levers, and lays out a phased roadmap, from quick wins to deeper transformation.

When demand exceeds what a plant can produce, the reflex is to expand or build new. An industrial assessment often shows the opposite: part of the missing capacity is already there, blocked by flow organization rather than by machines. Here is the case of a mid-sized company in plant breeding that wanted to double its internal production capacity — and what an assessment revealed before any investment.

A French manufacturer of warehouse logistics robots had to multiply its volumes by nearly four by 2030 and consolidate production in a new building. Its modular cell-based assembly, effective at the start, could no longer keep up: long cycle times, heavy reliance on technicians, large floor footprint, under-utilized workshop (TCUP ≈ 53% in 2026). The design study for a flexible paced assembly line — Design Optimizer mission — defined a quantified target model: produce more, on less space, with a much wider cadence range. The first gain is space.

The Client, a rail specialist in floor assembly, is growing fast: in-housing activities, new programs, rising volumes. An industrial diagnosis carried out by Dillygence put words on the mounting tension — performance driven by teams' reactivity rather than stable processes — and mapped out a roadmap toward pull-based, paced and digitized management.

A thermal equipment manufacturer doubled its business in four years and is about to commit to a major investment in new equipment worth €30–40M — to expand its heat exchanger production. The client chose to run an industrial facility layout study upstream of the investment: flow mapping, comparison of two layouts based on objective criteria, a targeted automation plan and an Industry 4.0 roadmap.