Manufacturer's success

through advanced scalable technology

Think about it: What would happen to your competitive position if your unit costs would drop 20 to 30%?

ICB Western Europe

is a team with over 30 years international experience in business and industrial manufacturing, acting as a sparring-partner and solution provider to support your activity

A solid ecosystem of solutions established to address customers’ challenges with precision and expertise

Benefit from our deep expertise and global experience to address your specific challenges — whether optimizing workflows, tackling operational or business challenges.

TECHNOLOGICAL ECOSYSTEM

In order to meet all types of needs or challenges faced by manufacturing companies, we offer proven, scalable, and easy to use technological solutions, developed by or with manufacturers—Industry 4.0-compliant software or advanced industrial equipment.

 

Our solutions can also take the form of services, selected from partners with proven track records in their field.

Software

Our software selection will enable you to gain real-time visibility into your manufacturing operations to increase efficiency, minimize downtime and ensure consistent quality through data-based actionable insights. Today, for most industrial organisations, the question is no longer whether they should go digital—but how and when.

Easy to use CMMS for preventive and predictive maintenance, emergency repairs, and stock management.

Aluminium Extrusion software solutions for optimization and production management – including nitrogen cooling of the dies.

Solves HSE challenges through intuitive and human technology.

An all-in-one scalable and agile ERP platform that empowers companies of all sizes to digitalize and transform their business.

Advanced industrial equipment

Our advanced industrial equipment selection encompasses high-precision equipment, usually with custom-designed integrated automation and/or robotics systems, and plant engineering.

They allow high-precision manufacturing, high productivity, handling, transport, packaging, and storage of materials.

Delivers RFID solutions to monitor logistics (tracking), and control stock and product content.

Provides high precision manufacturing equipment for aluminium remelt, extrusion and hardening ovens.

Provides advanced industrial facilities and robotic systems for material handling and packaging as well as electrical solutions.

Produces innovative and highly automated machines and systems fully adapted to its customer’s needs – mainly dedicated to aluminium extrusion.

Proposes an inline, AI-based machine vision solution for real-time surface control of painted or raw aluminium profiles.

Converts otherwise lost heat into electricity to inform you as soon as a surface is hot, or power your sensors without batteries or cables.

The industry leader in high production circular sawing machines and saw blades for ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Services

Our services selection has been created to meet specific needs in various areas, such as the need for skilled IT freelancers, or a cost/change management team that will stay in the company until the defined goal is met.

Allows companies to build an elastic workforce around the core team when needed, providing a flexible IT workforce with top freelancers – remotely.

Helps organisations with implementing and operating IT systems as well as managing industrial projects all over Middle East and Asia.

A sparring partner for maintenance process challenges.

Improves operating processes and costs – as experts in Business Re-engineering. 

Memberships

ICB-WE is a member of several leading innovation and industry networks. These cooperations reinforce our commitment to advanced manufacturing, continuous improvement, and cross-border collaboration.

The Innovation and Learning Center (ILC) Aachen which was founded by ITA Academy is an Industry 4.0 model factory with a textile production as a demonstration example, that is dedicated to strengthening digitalisation in manufacturing companies.

Being the French Technical Centre for Mechanical Industry, Cetim facilitates companies’ competitiveness through engineering, innovation and advanced manufacturing solutions – in over 30 countries.

The Interreg SMARAGD project aims to provide practical support to manufacturing companies in the Meuse-Rhine region, helping them to adopt emerging technologies to optimise their production, move towards sustainability and address the growing shortage of skilled workers.

As an Euregio Meuse-Rhine Quick Response Manufacturing organization, QRM4.0 supports SMEs in their processes by reducing lead time with coaching, training, expertise and best practices sharing.

The Belgian Maintenance Association is an organisation of 600+ members that aims to increase the efficiency and reliability of equipment, systems and infrastructure as well as the quality of goods produced in the Benelux and beyond.

CONSULTING SERVICES

Use our deep expertise and global experience to address your specific challenges.

ICB-WE consulting support spans a wide range of focus areas, including:

  • Optimization of productivity and workflow efficiency,
  • Enhancement of workplace safety and risk mitigation,
  • Optimalisation of resource use,
  • Improvement of On-Time Delivery (OTD) performance,
  • Successful market entry for new activities or products,
  • Internal and external communication strategy and execution,
  • Removal of critical operational bottlenecks.

At ICB-WE, “we consider that even the most advanced technical solutions require team acceptance to succeed”.

That’s why we place a strong emphasis on internal communication as a major component of our consulting approach. We also provide strong input to external communication.”.

THE CORE TEAM

Christèle Bouyer

20 years of experience serving industrial manufacturers and customers in Europe, West Africa and Brazil as Export & Marketing Manager or Business Development consultant.

 

Master in International Trade – high technical affinity

 

Adept of developing sales channels, providing Technical training, and Communication

 

Languages: FR, EN, DE

Johan van Putten

30+ years of experience in production as CEO, COO and CFO, primarily in Denmark, Switzerland, Benelux, France, the UAE, and Bulgaria, working in diverse international settings.

 

Master in Finance – high technical affinity

 

A fast strategic and business thinker and a Turn Around specialist

 

 

Languages: DK, DE, EN, CH, (FR), (NL)

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

ICB-WE B.V.

Nieuwstraat 11 B13 – 6211CR Maastricht – NETHERLANDS
Company Number at the Chamber of Commerce

(KvK number): 83284915

VAT number: NL862811843B01