Decision Architecture
How much is your current production line layout costing you every year?
Every year manufacturers invest millions in layout, machines, automation and make-or-buy decisions. Most of these decisions are still made with Excel. ORVEN turns your real operational data into a defensible investment decision; a number, not an opinion.
Different tools, different questions
Manufacturing has software for almost everything. But none of it tells you where to invest.
| Tool | What it tells you |
|---|
| ERP | What happened |
| MES | How production is performing |
| Simulation | What could happen |
| ORVEN | What you should invest in |
TRY ORVEN · DECISION DEMO
Try part of the ORVEN method on a real decision
Decision Demos are free micro-tools that apply a specific part of the ORVEN method to a single decision using your own data. They let you experience the ORVEN decision logic in practice; ORVEN Engine (the complete software) instead integrates multiple levers, scenarios and analyses within the same decision model.
Choose the Decision Demo closest to your case and see which conditions make the decision economically sustainable.
Investment Decision
Does an investment really create value?
Evaluate an investment in machinery, automation, capacity or performance improvement. ORVEN connects the operational impact to the economic impact and returns NPV, ROI, payback and the conditions required for the investment to be sustainable.
Layout Decision
Is the new layout economically better?
Compare a proposed layout with the current situation and assess whether the operational and economic benefits justify the investment required to implement it.
Free account · 14 days for each Decision Demo · no credit card required
How an ORVEN project works
ORVEN first runs the analysis with proprietary software. The client then receives a one-month licence to the ORVEN engine to explore scenarios independently.
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Select the decision
A structural industrial decision with significant economic consequences is identified. ORVEN evaluates whether the decision is suitable for quantitative modelling.
02
Build the decision model
ORVEN builds a model from the client’s operational data: costs, capacity, flows, constraints. All relevant alternatives are defined with the same boundaries and the same objective function.
03
Identify the dominant alternative
The model calculates the economic result of each alternative under real operating conditions. The dominant alternative is the one that performs best across the relevant set of scenarios.
04
Explore scenarios with the ORVEN Engine
The client receives a one-month licence to the ORVEN software. They can modify parameters, test assumptions and verify the robustness of the recommended choice independently.
Typical decisions analysed
ORVEN is used for structural decisions that are difficult to correct after the fact, where the wrong choice has a quantifiable economic impact.
Production line layout design
Line capacity expansion or reconfiguration
Automation vs. direct labour
Make-or-buy and insourcing
Throughput vs. inventory trade-off
Bottleneck identification and quantification
Machinery investment under uncertain demand
Case: layout decision for a new product line
A manufacturer was evaluating two layout configurations for a new product line. The ORVEN model identified a structural economic error in the preferred configuration.
| Structural layout error detected | €152,290 / year |
| Margin improvement (correct layout) | €90,605 / year |
| ORVEN intervention payback | 5.9 months |
The dominant alternative was not the one selected by the team on operational grounds alone.
The path
Companies
Decision sprint
We build the model on your real case, identify the dominant alternative and deliver a documented recommendation. Included: 30 days of access to the ORVEN Engine configured on your real data to verify the recommendation independently.
If you want to continue, an annual licence with dedicated training is available.
Consultants
Professional Licence
For those who want to integrate ORVEN permanently into their working method. Full access to the engine across all your client projects, with dedicated training included in the first year.
If you want to test it first, a pilot on a real client case is possible.
The typical mistake
Attributing to layout what depends on another lever (automation, OEE, mix). Inflated ROI. Fragile choice.
When you realise
It’s too late: implementation has rigidified the system. Correcting costs 10× and requires internal credibility you no longer have.
The ORVEN approach
Apples-to-apples comparison: same boundaries, same objective function, isolated levers. Break-even and downside as numbers, not opinions.
ORVEN might be right for you if…
You suspect your layout is not optimalbut you don’t have a number to prove it.
You have a decision to makelayout, capacity or make-or-buy, and you need a defensible recommendation.
Your data doesn’t convergeOEE says one thing, capacity another, and you can’t attribute the problem to a specific lever.
Management asks “what if volumes drop?”and you don’t have a structured answer.
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