Before we plan we understand our client’s core business
Interview with Michael Trautwein, Managing Partner of FOODFAB GmbH, Munich, Innsbruck.
Mr Trautwein, globalization and altered eating habits mean that the food industry will face major new challenges over the course of the next few years. How does FOODFAB support its clients in their important decisions?
Trautwein: As a result of our leading presence in the Central European market we have many years’ experience and valuable technical know-how. Our comprehensive masterplans are designed to provide certainty for decades to come. Many of our clients value this long-term planning perspective and share with us their desire to produce efficiently and sustainably.
Aren’t these two criteria mutually exclusive?
Trautwein: Quite the opposite. The task is always to translate a corporate strategy into a building concept. That’s what we help our clients to do.
First of all we want to understand our client’s business perfectly from the inside. Only then, at the very start of the planning process, can we really judge whether and which building measures are necessary for the optimal support of the building’s core processes.
On the basis of a feasibility study we then define the “order quality” as a viable basis for the design and construction of a sustainably successful facility.
FOODFAB is the consulting subsidiary of ATP architects engineers, Europe’s leading integrated designers. Where are the synergies?
Trautwein: I would describe our proximity to ATP as a win-win situation. We in FOODFAB provide highly specialized production planning services and optimize the production, processing, and distribution processes of our clients.
Our design services can make use of ATP’s 40 years’ experience and market leadership in food production and cleanroom technology and we can share knowledge with colleagues who belong to ATP’s network of over 700 specialist designers.
In our analyses and simulations of, for example, material flows and machinery layouts our clients benefit from our use of state-of-the-art planning technology. Building Information Modeling (BIM) means that we are always a step ahead.
The modern industrial buildings of ATP are characterized by the latest technical standards, high levels of efficiency and security and high-quality architecture. What are FOODFAB’s focusses?
Trautwein: One of the core competences of FOODFAB is integrated process planning for food production and processing. Over the course of the past few years we have incorporated ATP’s experience of integrating complex cleanroom technology in buildings into our portfolio and are also looking to increasingly apply this expertise to the areas of milk and cheese production.
Captions/Credits:
Image 1: (Michael Trautwein, Managing Partner of FOODFAB. Photo: ATP/Becker
Image 2a, 2b: Milei 2.0. – A high-tech production facility for special milk and whey derivatives opened by the Japanese Morinaga Group in Allgäu in 2017. Renderings: ATP
FOODFAB GmbH
Munich, Innsbruck
Planning and consultancy
for the food industry
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Masterplanning
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Factory planning
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Production technology planning
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Material flow planning
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Process technology consultancy
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Machinery layout planning
Why FOODFAB?
We have special technical know-how,
understand the production process and
optimize production costs.
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