What PE Partners Need to Know When a Plant Must Shut Down

Plant shutdowns become high-risk moments long before the first de energization step. For PE Partners, understanding leadership drift, regulatory exposure, and execution timing is essential. This guide explains what really happens inside a declining plant and why the right shutdown leader determines the cost, risk, and final outcome.
Interim Expert or Internal Manager: Right Leader for Factory Closure

Factory closures do not fail because of machinery. They fail because the wrong leader is asked to guide the final chapter. This article breaks down when an internal manager reaches their limits, and when an interim shutdown expert becomes the right leader for factory closure.
Restructuring Is Dead: Germany Needs a New Industrial Playbook

Restructuring in Germany no longer works. Learn the new industrial playbook for reinvention, relevance, and execution at speed.
How to Communicate Layoffs in a Factory (Step-by-Step)

Layoffs in a factory need clear, lawful communication for EU/Germany: works council messaging, rumor control, customer updates, press lines.
Redundancy Selection Matrix & Criteria: Employer Guide

Learn how to apply fair redundancy selection criteria with a scoring matrix. Defensible, legal, and practical for EU & Germany
Alternatives to Redundancy: EU Factory Playbook

Factory guide to alternatives to redundancy: redeploy, reskill, use short-time work to cut costs without losing key people.
Incident Response Plan When Ransomware Hits Factory

A ransomware attack just hit your plant. This incident response plan shows how to restore control, protect operations, & lead recovery fast.
German Auto Supplier Insolvencies: A CFO Action Plan

Auto Supplier Insolvencies: Interim CFO actions to protect cash, keep lines running, stabilise customers, and secure supply in Germany.
German EV Battery Plants Stalled: Is Leadership Missing?

German EV battery plants are stalling. Did demand cause it, or did leadership failures hold projects back? See what truly drove the pause.
Michelin Plant Closures: Strategy or Leadership Failure?

Michelin is closing plants across Europe. But is this true strategy or the result of missed leadership moments? Lets have a closer look.

