Digitization by measurement. Check system in the carpentry trade
DNA Tischlerhandwerk
Conception of a process-oriented consulting tool to support the digitalization of the joinery trade in NRW
With more than one million businesses, 5.4 million employees and an annual turnover of over 500 billion euros, the skilled trades are the backbone of the German SME sector. Throughout its centuries-long history, the skilled trades have had to adapt and develop again and again in order to keep up with the times and their demands. The skilled trades sector is currently in a transition phase, moving away from individual digital solutions and media disruptions, usually associated with paper, towards end-to-end digital processes.
Objectives and contents
The aim of the “DNA Tischlerhandwerk” project was to design a process-oriented consulting tool to support the digitalization of the carpentry trade in NRW as part of the “Handwerk-Digital.NRW” project. The aim was to develop a concept for a tool to support digitalization in the carpentry trade, with which the status of a company's digitalization can be recorded in order to determine a clear and implementable action or strategy development for further digitalization. The tool should take into account both the current state of the art and the economic benefits using the company's key data.
The “Digitalization by measurement” concept for supporting the carpentry trade in the context of digital transformation is a modular toolkit with a check system that
- allows a standardized determination of the current degree of digitization of individual companies in the carpentry trade depending on the status quo of current industry technology,
- based on the individual company analysis, a presentation of the development potential and the need for development of an individual company (including estimated investment expenditure and areas) and
- prioritizes action steps for individual companies within the process chain.
The tool was adapted to the individual process steps of the joinery trade and offered a modular structure. It should be noted that these main modules were not processed chronologically, but contained thematically bundled sub-modules that were oriented towards the process chain and the acute need for action of joinery companies. This made it possible for companies that were already digitized in some areas to receive recommendations for action for those process steps in which they still had potential for development. Thus, an approach was chosen here that provided information and recommendations for action on all aspects of the process chain, so that all sub-modules could be processed individually and were based on the individual degree of digitization of companies.
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