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FROM TACIT KNOWLEDGE TO PROFITABILITY
The greatest value is hidden, deeply rooted in the chain of decisions and the organizational culture – even in training. The consequences, on the other hand, often become visible years later throughout the product life cycle. Our specialty is to make value visible and actionable.
The secret of tacit knowledge
Solutions for industry with decades of experience
Why is everyday work stressful and the profitability calculations do not match? How would you really get something out of the innovation of research collaboration? And where would you find workerswho can find their way to desired targets?
MexLink is a link between the tacit knowledge of the industrial sector and the everyday life of your company. The most valuable capital lies in the background of daily activities, i.e. operating methods, chains of decisions and training in the field. We bring this capital for you to see and work on.
"I can definitely recommend Mexlink. I especially appreciated the fact that they didn't make hasty promises, but first assessed our situation and then told us honestly whether they could help us or not."
– Vesa Marttila, Global Sales Director, Normet MRB Oy
Our operating principles
Every company is hungry for success in its own category. It can be achieved by supporting our customers to achieve top performance in a journey spanning the life cycle of products and services and expertise. We have been boiled in the tough broths of international business, from which our reserve of tacit knowledge is transferred to the customers' actions.
We have productized our service into modules, which always have a layer of customer need-tuned approach to various problems and opportunities to be solved.
Competence base = experience + new knowledge
- Resources exhausted by international business
- World class cost management tools/experience
- Tasks in the field of demanding manufacturing - the importance of tacit knowledge
- Life cycle understanding in the complexity of product digitalization, systems and mechanics
- Knowledge networks, through which specialized knowledge and capacity
We provide the roots
- Competence maps of the manufacturing industry (tacit knowledge)
- Technology management development - productization - product management - life cycle
- Ways to reduce costs with customer value at the center
- Development of automation products while managing life cycle costs
Customised services
- Products and services described
- In the online store (includes specifications)
- We also offer customised or partially productised service concepts
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Solutions for the critical shortage of CNC Machining operators
Solutions for the critical shortage of CNC Machining operators
Industry needs solutions for a painful problem - shortage of professionals, and in this case we concentrate on CMC Machinists as a demanding career, but our solution is scalable to other domains, too. MexLink solution is competence platform for raising productivity among current professionals and speed up time to productivity for newcomers.
Machinist's path - solutions to the skills shortage
The machinist's path opens one solution channel to the skills shortage, which is gathered from machinists' tacit knowledge of real life, combined with theory and awakening the dormant potential of education. With a high probability, this kind of approach reaching from the roots upwards has not been seen in the world before. The machinist's path is also a token of appreciation for metal professionals, even with all possible defects. The company's management, on the other hand, opens up a view of the systematic management of expertise and its connection to productivity.
How customer value help to achieve cost control?
This practical and simple example continues the deep dive into customer-driven cost control. The example is kept simple enough just to focus on the Value Engineering method.
Calculating customer value is one of the most important cost management skills when planning costs out of the product. Thus, care is taken that prioritized customer needs influence the solutions. Solutions made without analytics are often unable to keep balanced customer needs at the center, instead the technical solution becomes an absolute value.
Function Analysis System Technique 1 (Function Analysis System ...
In previous two articles Pentti Enlund has described target cost setting and Value Analysis & Value Engineering (VA/VE) Process. In this article he is starting the deep dive journey to design-cost-out tools. Customer value will guide systematically function analysis, too. Traditional cost reduction process asks: "How we can reduce cost?", but VA/VE set two questions: "How the product or function acts ", and next: "How we can design the product with better customer value as well as with Simplified functionality?”. This article is in Finnish.
COST MANAGEMENT DURING THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE PRODUCT
The phenomenon of time is the increase in costs and the reliability of supply chains. Digitalization and the green transition especially increase cost risks during a long life cycle if they are built in a short span. Easy cost-cutting measures have often been taken. What remains is an invisible and incomprehensible area that needs its own tools and know-how.
Identifying opportunities based on the results of the FAST anal...
How to make a connection between a feature and a cost? A simple example of a coffee bean grinder. In fact, Pentti Enlund did a thorough analysis by buying a bean mill and taking it apart, but the cost basis is more of an extrapolation based on experienced engineering skills. FAST analysis and ideation shake hands with features that are constantly related to customer needs.
Function Analysis System Technique, FAST - Part 2 - author Pent...
Function Analysis System Technique, FAST - Part 2
VALUE ANALYSIS AND COST PLANNING (Value Analysis / Value Engine...
Value Analysis/Value Engineering process is an important component in product cost management. It is a disciplined action oriented flow of creativity and tools to dig out the invisible roots of value and cost. Mexlink Target Costing and Value Engineering expert Pentti Enlund opens in this article the secrets of VA/VE.
Interim results of the Smart Manufacturing Network (ÄVE) project
The Smart Manufacturing in Ecosystem (ÄVE) project had its roots in an acute and long-term shortage of skilled professionals in industry.
CO2 and manufacturing
CO2 is a new driver of the manufacturing industry. Logistics probably can be seen as major emission source, but manufacturing combined with R&D can influence the need of logistics by fatigue life of single components. Read the article and start the co-creation process.