About Conbility
We specialize in solutions and products in the field of process and product cost accounting for manufacturing processes. What makes us unique, however, is our combination of first-class consulting, our OPLYSIS® software and our great expertise in all aspects of materials and production technologies. Because this means that we are not only able to provide you with competent advice, but can even modify your production machines or develop new ones.
Conbility
CONBILITY® is a multiple award-winning spin-off of RWTH Aachen University, Europe’s leading university of excellence in the field of production engineering. Our founders are proven experts in the fields of materials development and production systems.
Aachen Pool of Ingenuity
CONBILITY® is located in Aachen, at the border triangle of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Here we use our strong network at the RWTH Campus, one of the largest research landscapes in Europe for companies and research institutions. 260 research institutes and over 4,500 scientists develop state-of-the-art materials and production methods here on more than 800,000 m2.
Through the close connection and participation in research and development projects, we achieve a continuous further development of our products and a broad range of services.
We work particularly closely with the Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Construction (AZL). The AZL specializes in the development and analysis of series production chains for lightweight products. For example, OPLYSIS® was developed in close cooperation with the AZL on the basis of a joint project with 34 industrial partners such as Henkel, Siemens, Toyota or ThyssenKrupp.
Vision
The world needs good ideas. The more of them, the better. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to simply have a good idea – you also have to be able to realize it. That’s exactly what we’re here for. With first-class consulting, sophisticated software and our production know-how, we want to help ensure that the world’s best ideas don’t just remain ideas, but become economically producible.
Mission
With our Idea to Production approach, we help manufacturing companies to make the right decisions faster and more qualified and to implement ideas successfully.
References
«Fast and reliable cost calculations are essential for our specialised products with a high amount of product variants. The database function of OPLYSIS is one essential function to document and make use of our experience for the calculation of future production scenarios. By this, we speed up our quotation process and our 25 employees can concentrate on creating value instead of spending time on administration.»
Bernd Burgwedel, Managing Director, IBK-Fibertec GmbH
«With more than 100 manufacturing plants and technical centers worldwide our company is the the global leader in automotive interiors. Within this dynamic market it is essential, to rate the potential of new processes within days. OPLYSIS is our partner/vendor for analysing production scenarios, to identify cost drivers and production bottlenecks in early stages. As a globally acting company, we also take advantage of the collaboration functions to improve the communication between various departments like procurement, production and costing. »
Dr. Oliver Becker, Executive Director Process Innovation at Yanfeng Automotive Interiors
«FEV Consulting combines top management consulting expertise with deep technical and engineering capabilities in order to create pragmatic solutions to the complex issues of our customers from automotive and other technical industries. OPLYSIS effectively supports our cost & value engineering team to prepare detailed should-cost calculations, transparent mapping and optimization of production processes, develop new production concepts and to determine target costs. During collaborative workshops with our clients, OPLYSIS shows it’s strength in quick and flexible process mapping – results can be analyzed and discussed directly during the workshop and optimization ideas are easily implemented virtually.»
Christian Speuser, Principal, FEV Consulting GmbH
«The high flexibility of OPLYSIS supports us in early stage evaluation of new materials and production technologies with regard to costs and production capabilities. The structured modelling approach is helping us share and leverage information efficiently.»
Dr. Andrew Willet, Production Engineering Division, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA
«AVANCO‘s brought product range including tubes and profiles as well as prismatic lightweight components demands a tailored process flow and flexible costing solutions. OPLYSIS supports this individualized approach starting in the product development phase by modeling different production scenarios. Incoming customer inquiries can be visualized and discussed transparently regarding the potential process layout, resulting costs structures and potential costs drivers.»
Markus Hildebrandt, Project Management, AVANCO GmbH
«As globally active company in material supply, Mitsui Chemicals wants to meet today’s requirements of high flexibility and short response time to constantly changing markets. Not only within the composite business, we always have to face the challenge to understand highly cost-intensive and dynamic market situations. OPLYSIS, with its possibility to simulate production scenarios by varying easily process elements or resources, can help us to understand new markets and also to respond flexibly to customer needs with our own production. »
Christos Karatzias, Business Development Engineer, Mitsui Chemicals Europe GmbH
«With OPLYSIS, we found a powerful software tool, to store, exchange and reuse our wide range of expertise. The know-how ranges from materials and processes up to equipment and economical correlations. OPLYSIS also provides an integrated database for effective collaboration within our team. The agile and intuitive modelling of production technologies – especially in early design stages – encourages the discussion with our project partners and supports us in gaining a common understanding within the team at every stage of the project.»
Thomas Weiler, Group Leader, The Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production (AZL)
«With OPLYSIS, we are able to set up economic evaluations of new production scenarios far more effectively and expeditiously than before. New process and material combinations we think of or have already developed can be related to the state of the art within seconds by modelling in only one calculation window. This enables us to evaluate cost, times and performance of the new production scenarios in direct comparison. »
Arne Böttcher, Head of department Composites and Polyurethane Technology, Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV)