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Leading manufacturers are leveraging a variety of digital approaches to support Manufacturing Operations Digital excellence. This enables them to handle higher mix, support a changing workforce, gain visibility, and more. This is a path to improve both operating costs and performance and move the needle on crucial business metrics such as profitability, ability to innovate, and resilience.
In this report, you can find your responses and evaluate your company's Manufacturing Operations Digital maturity. Our recommendations are intended to raise useful points to help you determine your next steps.
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This report provides tailored recommendations to help you move to the next level of maturity and become a Top Performer.
Top Performers are excellent at both agility and continuous improvement.
Digital Operations Maturity by Performance Band
Industry 4.0 is a strategy to use decentralized information to manage operations proactively across an enterprise and value chain. The objective is to optimize resources, processes and outcomes for profitable, quick response. We use this term to cover a range of visions such as Smart Manufacturing, Digital Transformation, and others. Industry 4.0 creates the "Smart Connected Factory" with supporting technologies such as automation, IoT, cloud computing, and MES.
Manufacturing Execution System (MES) deliver information to optimize production activities from order launch to finished goods. MES guides, initiates, responds to, and reports on plant activities as they occur. To do so, MES puts into context a wide array of current and accurate data from both operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT). MES can deliver mission-critical information about production activities across the product lifecycle, enterprise, and supply chain via bi-directional communications.
Data management and governance are the foundation of manufacturing Operations Digital as well as analytics and AI. Smooth flowing, clean and reliable data is crucial for a complete understanding of an operation. Industrial dataOps is complex, however, with the variety of real-time and time-series data from equipment, automation, unstructured data from cameras and sensors, in-plant software, as well as transactional and event-based data.
Making decisions is at the heart of every operation. Since manufacturing operations move and change rapidly, making decisions quickly using all of the appropriate data is crucial to success, but not easy. Companies must use their data management capabilities to convert data into information and insights to drive decisions and action. With the workforce skills shortage, experienced people cannot be the primary resource for sound best-practice decisions.
Manufacturers are faced with a skills shortage, so it’s imperative that the workforce is empowered with the tools and information they need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively. This applies to the operators, technicians, and supervisors working in the facility. Digital empowerment can also support operations support personnel doing scheduling, maintenance, and continuous improvement as well as others in the offices in supply chain, engineering, development, sales, marketing, and finance.
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Recommendations by Priority
Note that Pillars appear in order from most relevant to your challenges to least, not necessarily numerical.
We hope these recommendations spark useful thought and conversation to help prioritize next actions for your company.
Next Steps
Improve Manufacturing Operations Digital Maturity
Leaders have made more progress in Manufacturing Operations Digital excellence, have better experiences with MES, have better data capabilities, are better at decision-making, and have empowered the workforce.
Specifically, Leaders are far more likely to have:
- Gained benefits from MES or MOM
- Met their cost reduction targets
- Significantly improved performance on OEE, Yield, Throughput, Capacity Utilization, On-time Shipments, Time to Market and Quality (more than 2X as likely).
Follow the recommendations in this report to increase your company's Manufacturing Operations Digital maturity and achieve the operational and business benefits.
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