Hello. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining. My name is Garrett Clemons And today
we will talk about accelerating
business growth with smart manufacturing. So let's jump right into it.
So brief introduction to who I am. Again. My name is Garrett Clemens. I made MES
consultant at Rockwell Automation and have been for a little under five years. Now been
in the technology Consulting industry for around 10 years developing various
manufacturing execution Solutions across across the board and various Industries such
as you know pharmaceutical biotech and medical devices very well versed in
the various regulatory authorities within those pharmaceutical biotech medical device.
Industries as well as the other
regulatory or authority practices that involve their evolved in our
are those issues as well such as 24 21 CFR part 11
s 88's Nai all your is a
standards as well. So today we're going to talk about like I
said accelerating your business growth with smart manufacturing.
So before we do that, I just wanted to level set
a little bit provide just a little bit of foundation. All understanding around smart
manufacturing making sure we understand. Hey, what is Smart manufacturing? What what is
what do we mean when we talk about smart manufacturing? So first and foremost the
question we always get is hey, what is Smart manufacturing and in its most simplistic
foundational at its core? It's two pillars. It's the smart people with your
smart technology. It's being able to take a knowledge base worker and apply a
comprehensive integrated. Solution to provide and a smart manufacturing
Solutions overall at its foundation. It's all
about the smart people with smart technology being able to bring these two aspects
together. We also work hand-in-hand with a professional
society called Mesa manufacturing execution Solutions associations.
We collaborated with them pretty we collaborate with them pretty pretty
consistently pretty a lot
and were able to define a really nice or build out a really nice definition of what we
like to call Smart manufacturing. So, you know again
I again we talked about smart manufacturing just having two key
pillars this Aren't people with smart
technology. This is just a little more in-depth
definition around smart manufacturing. It's understanding that smart manufacturing is a
real as an intelligent real-time orchestration and optimization of your
business and your physical and digital processes.
Not only within your factory, but across your entire value chain,
so we'll talk about how we're able to utilize intelligent real-time orchestration
optimizing your business. Process your physical process
your digital processes and what that looks like within your
factories and as well as across your entire value chain, not just within your particular
plant. So a few characteristics of smart
manufacturing so we know that smart manufacturing and by itself is intelligent.
It has active intelligent as opposed to passive and pass intelligence all about
making real-time decisions having the correct data
the right data at the right time for the right Personnel to respond and accordingly
with that data to make the right decision based on some
constraints. It's about orchestrating all that. Data,
making sure that data flows smoothly through the entire through your entire process making
sure that our resources be at our Personnel or equipment or asset all has the appropriate
access and visibility into the your your business process and is in sync across
the board so that your data and your process flow smoothly from Cradle to grave.
It's about understanding your business and its entirety understanding what your business
can do in terms of your physical process versus your Digital process
it's about understanding the people the physical equipment the digital. It processes
that you're orchestrating together so that they connect to get
comprehensively into warm one value chain,
and finally it's about optimizing these these functionalities these aspects of your
business. It's about taking what we can and optimizing taking your available resources.
You're available people you're available equipment and delivering something with
optimization. Ocean understanding what we can do and how we can maximize our efficiency and
Effectiveness around some key aspect of our process.
So we understand that smart manufacturing is intelligence about orchestrating. It's about
building and understanding our business process developing our specific process
understanding and optimizing our digital process
to overall meet the needs of our entire connected value chain.
So when we talk about smart manufacturing, a lot of times people have a good understanding
of what old-school manufacturing is what the
the old old, you know, the old style manufacturing, right?
So a lot of times when people think of manufacturing, they think of kind of low-cost
labor being able to produce something at the
cheapest cheapest cheapest possible Right being able to focus on what
what capacity we can Can't provide right old-school mentality is all
about, you know, just how much can I produce right how quickly how fast can I produce
versus versus? You know, how cheap can I do it?
Whereas with smart manufacturing. It's a completely different perspective. We're
shifting gears entirely. We're not necessarily focusing on low-cost labor for
focusing on our knowledgeable Workforce. We want to make sure that our Workforce is
knowledgeable as focusing on such things not like capacity not PlantPAX.
We're focusing on what we can actually
fulfill what the customer with the the in client needs from us, right? And therefore
it's about focusing on our capability are our side capability what we are capable of
doing versus what what are simple capacity is about focusing and learning from our
Workforce learning from our fulfillment and understanding. Hey, can we can we modify
certain processes certain products. Can we can we
adapt the Get a little more a little more intuitively as well as building a pond and
understanding
our digital Factory, right? It's not just just producing on am a skillet understanding
these these aspects within our own process and understanding that. Hey,
we cannot instead of just producing
everything we can actually focus on agility. We can
focus on responsiveness. We can focus on other aspects that meet the customer needs
and Implement a smart manufacturing solution so
you can see here that that old-school manufacturing versus smart
manufacturing is all about your perspective and all about that the differences how were
handling things. It's about capability versus capacity right being able to focus on agility
and responsiveness versus your overall mass production.
And smart manufacturing is also a collective of Technologies as well.
It's a it's a accumulation of Technologies. It's not just
necessarily one piece of technology. It's a
it's
your entire it infrastructure is included in your smart manufacturing.
And again, it's also complementary and and
incremental as well. Whereas Not we don't have to necessarily
Implement our entire strategy at once we can focus on one or two things and incrementally
develop and incrementally Implement. So with smart manufacturing again, it's very
different types of Technologies all lumped into one utilizing collaborating together.
It's about building out that having that mobile internet being able to have the the
operator utilize mobile internet which gives us the capability of having Cloud technology,
right which allows us to even connect to our pieces of equipment have or are just
basically have the Internet of Things utilizing the
the internet of things with our equipment and pulling in our various data through a various
devices. It's also about having
through that we can have automation basic automation through tracking through robotics
group robotics 3D print through augmented reality
all this is complementary technology on top of each other and is a part of a smart
manufacturing solution. And again a lot of this is not
a lot of Solutions are small our integral
and our complimentary of your overall solution. So you're not necessarily focusing
on your entire strategy could be focusing on a particular aspect of your process
within within your overall strategy.
And we can see here with smart manufacturing. It's not just within your particular
manufacturing plant. It's across your entire value chain. It's from Cradle to grave right
smart manufacturing. Yes. It is about monitoring your production flow to reduce
real time waste, right? It's a bit maybe about implementing
implementing condition based maintenance, right or aggregating product data or other
third-party data as needed, but it's also about being able to manage equipment remote.
It's about being able to transmit information remotely across different sites being able to
provide cross-channel visibility across your supply chain, right all in all in your Global
operations having visibility throughout the entire
process right smart manufacturing touches all of
these aspects of your business process.
And can and can optimize just about every one of
these one way or another or another.
So all in all smart manufacturing, we like to claim smart manufacturing is transforming
manufacturing back into an economic Powerhouse,
right? We are finally getting back to having a strong strong economic
boom here with our manufacturing with smart manufacturing. We were very very
optimistic on Smart manufacturing how how beneficial it is and how
powerful it can be.
So we talked a little bit about smart manufacturing just have level setting so now
we'll talk a little bit about how we can start to accelerate new aspects of our
business may be specifically new product development or introducing a new
product to to our Market.
So we know a lot of times When developing new products introducing new
products to Market that it is a very labor inducing time-consuming process. It requires
a lot of people a lot of teams across multiple regions developing
working collaborating hand in hand. We know that it's all about of course. It's all about
the customer understanding what the customer needs but at the same time we need to
understand from a supply chain perspective. What is needed? For this new product from a
product plan or operations perspective what may be needed right? But even from a
maintenance standpoint, how are we going to how are we going to develop this new product
know a lot of things go into play around building
or creating or introducing a new product to the market, right? How we going to what is
our people that and how we're going to respond to it with our people. How are we
going to what is our business process going to look
like in terms of Maintenance how we're going to handle all the analytics around that well
about the quality side of it. Are we able to actually
build a quality product
that meets our various regulatory needs
all this comes into consideration when creating designing
or introducing a new product.
What's smart manufacturing were able to ensure that new products are
designed engineered manufactured as quickly and easily as possible
with this we're able to see how our information is disseminated across
our entire it architecture where we are able to with smart manufacturing
rapidly disseminate various pieces of information from your ERP down to
your down to your level 0 or automation layer.
Take various. It's all about having that integrated
solution to develop new products. Right and we're
developing new products. We have to build it out. We have to we have to understand
various pieces of data around that around the that product and we have to actually
disseminate and read into that information
at various systems and various steps along the process
right smart manufacturing is able to to
streamline a lot of the the dissemination of the information so much so that we can
control where when how and why it's being disseminated and allow such things. As you
know, our orders are bill of materials are specifications just general new product
information to flow naturally through our
through our IT down to our OT as well. And with new products come new
instructions new sop new procedures and work instructions. All this can be Included with
our smart manufacturing strategy strategy as well
as well as providing giving us data and real-time feedback on the
overall manufacturing process as well. So we can see here that that
that there's a lot of benefits to using a smart manufacturing strategy when
implementing the products and how we can utilize
systems across the board with our smart manufacturing strategy. So when we're
developing new products again,
we talked about it's across the board. It's with multiple teams multiple groups. It's a
very time-consuming heavy heavy based activity here. The may
require multiple members from multiple teams a lot of collaboration with smart
manufacturing. It's all about being able to ensure effective collaboration with the
entire team to develop that that product to Market writes about having the
correct. Information about sharing real-time information across the board across our team
being able to have insight into specific aspects of our business process,
but it's not a not just having that information is being able to see that
information having that Dynamic visualization of that information, right? So Matt just
having a whole list of data, but being able to see a particular dashboard
and understand from a pretty high level where we're at and what we're doing.
It's also focused we also With smart manufacturing are able to focus on on a
quality Focus process. We can actually take a look at and sure that we are
we're doing everything right the first time the right
first time the right past the first time I think that's the
way of saying it and it's also about again
it's a manufacturing is inherently a data-driven
process, right? It's all about the data. So we want to make sure that we again have
that data. And the correct data at the right time the right
place for the right people all that is included in your manufacturing
and you're smart manufacturing strategy.
So let's continue the conversation talk a little
bit about how smart manufacturing and powers are people
or Workforce. So
a bit of a caveat here, you know, without our modern Technologies without our
modern tools without our modern work processes to actually drive these
efficiencies in our operations. Ultimately will struggle to be successful and
we won't remain competitive in the future.
The the part of the solution to this is what I like
to call the connected factory worker.
Whereas if we can focus on the goals to achieve the goals for connected factory
worker. We can actually improve upon the workers ability to get things done in a
faster safer and more effective way.
Let's talk about what the connected factory worker looks like and what the goals are
you're trying to cheat when you have a connected factory worker.
So again, when we talk about that, it's all about having it's all about it's all about
the right people having the right information at the right time at the right place.
Right information right time right people right place, right? So with are
connected factory worker with a smart manufacturing strategy were able to engage
better engage or Workforce allow them to to have the insight and and the
ability to be intelligent to On an act accordance with certain things that
may arise so that may that may help with minimizing unplanned downtime that may help
with maximizing our production yield all while ensuring we have a quality product
and of course first and foremost improving upon safety across the board, but we know
that this the connected Factory workers also all about empowerment as well. We want to
empower that worker to do as much as they can give them the right tools to be successful
So that's such thing is things as just general support right some kind of maybe it's
remote support or onside on-site support
its General Repair maintenance feedback or Insight or just general real-time
actionable information
all in all allowing better Workforce collaboration and more efficient and
effective problem solving right the more we Empower our Workforce the more we do the more
tools. We give them through it to be successful
the quicker we get to Just to fixing those problems to understanding that the the
root cause and and finding a solution. Right and of course, it's all about empowering the
work for the workforce. But also giving them the right technology right giving them the
right tools just like I said having things like the industrial internet of things having
having mobile devices having location-based Services being able to utilize things such as
barcode scanners RFID or even wearables. All of these are
technology enablers that give us a more connected factory worker
that helps with our smart manufacturing strategy.
We're also it's also all about giving
us information giving the factory worker information giving them the right information
at the right time, right? So it's not about just flooding the
the operator with a Litany of work instructions or or CAD drawings or
things of that nature. It's about providing the right information at the right time,
right even on a predicted basis as well right with with our Smart Plan maintenance.
It's also Again, we talked about a little bit about support being able to provide that
real-time remote support which is pretty critical when you have a lot of a lot of
different sites and of course we want to make sure that the connected Factor
worker has on demand or construction. This is a pretty key critical aspect of
our connected factory worker where we have in-depth detailed drawings
manuals documents Sops DWIs electroguard work instructions
you name it that is included. That's what we're talking about. When we talk about
on-demand work instructions being able to guide that operator
from A to Z in depth in your process
with some kind of instruction to be visually or on-the-job training
or even with certain smart technology such as AR and VR
all are included with our connect factory
worker. And again,
you know being a connector Factory connected Factory workers all about going
paperless as well right being able to across-the-board execute digitally not not
ever having to touch a single piece of paper sign first sign for a signature or anything
like that being able to operate entirely on glass
being able to see the execution team to Quality. See the genealogy see your overall
work instructions. All that is Provides us
gives us the the quality connected factory worker that
we're looking for.
Oh, no, we know excuse me. We know that the connected factory
worker is all about three three key aspects. It's about providing the appropriate
training giving them the tools they need to learn to tune to have the appropriate skill
set to to improve upon their speed their accuracy and overall cost
Effectiveness and knowledge transfer is about giving them the real-time work instructions.
They Need helping them navigate through
basic processes or a giving them different
instructions based on what may be arising
just inherently just increases productivity and improves our speed and accuracy with our
manufacturing operations, very very critical the speed and accuracy.
You can't have one without the other speed and accuracy
and of course just helping them if things do arise it problems do arise being
able to extend reality to help them identify
any issues, maybe gather more information maybe start to do and follow along with some
kind of Maintenance or repair this overall ensured the effectiveness of our
interventions of our deviation. And of course most importantly improves upon
the safety of our employees of are connected Factory workers
so we can see here that having a smart manufacturing strategy
specifically for our work. Force is all about having the right information at
the right time to the right person at the
right location training them giving them the right tools
right providing them the right details as they're progressing in that process
and then giving them the support that's needed should any problems
arise?
So we talked a little bit about our people. So now let's talk about our assets. Let's
talk about how smart manufacturing can better utilize our assets.
So with our assets, we know that it's all about data. There is a lot a lot of data that
comes into play. We are in manufacturing
data driven. There is to say that there's a lot of data is the
biggest understatement of the century
with smart manufacturing. It's all about taking that data and properly utilizing that
data right understanding where it's coming from and what we can do with it, right so
Without Smart manufacturing. We may just have a Litany of data available to us, but we
don't know what to do with it. We don't know what it means. We don't know necessarily how
to respond to it. We don't know necessarily where we should
what we should do if this particular sensor
beeps or if this margin has been exceeded
we need to be able to understand in real time
with with with with time sensitive
since sensitivity
how to actively respond or process in certain aspects.
So with smart manufacturing, it's all about taking that data
and understanding that data and where we need it and how we want to visualize that data.
Right? Do we want to how do we want to take our data and it and
and respond to that data? Okay. So with smart manufactured we're able to take
take our data based on on based on.
Material equipment process you name it your scales your line.
We can we can take it and visualize that data in any in any way pain anyway needed and then
gives you the tools necessary to see it in real time and respond
accordingly based on that data that may arise. So again,
we're getting real-time data real-time real-time actionable data as we're as we're
operating and we need to be able to respond accordingly. So with smart manufacturing were
able to see
all this data in in the correct way
as needed to respond appropriately.
All about so it's all about taking that data
understanding the need behind that data when we need it where we need it why we need it
and how can we visualize that data?
Let's talk about how smart manufacturing can harness the IOT the industrial internet of
things. So
I think a lot of us already have a pretty good understanding of what IOT means. In
fact, I imagine that a lot of us are currently using IOT right now as I'm speaking
when we talk about IOT we talk about I like to always use the smart
home of example where you know,
Currently right now. You're probably in your home.
You've got smart lights. You've got a smart doorbell a smart. Thermostat
smart. Washer/dryer. Smart TV. You've got a hey you've got a smartphone in your hands.
All this is utilized with II with IOT. All these
are various Internet of Things devices that are connected to the internet
that can be run remotely can be managed remotely and can be tracked or automated
through some kind of smart devices. Ice so my favorite my favorite example is I like to
have a nice little automation when I come home.
I turn the car off based on that it triggers the
my light the turn on it triggers the heating or the AC to turn on
and it starts my favorite TV show as well all through just simply turning off my car.
This is this is kind of what IOT is and again we use it on a daily basis.
So let's talk about what IOT looks like on the factory on the actual Factory floor. So,
you know, let's carry on that thought so so maybe I want to start a process based on a
time-based or event-based trigger, right? I want to be able to
be able to have a barcode scanner scan something and away we go
that is utilized with IOT being able to to have
some piece of some piece of technology connected to the
internet and then have a smart device that's able to run that /
run that process or run that device remotely
and automate that as well. So with with the industrial internet of
things were able to do such things such as
monitor our production flow in real time right manage our equipment remotely right
take a look at our maintenance alerts remotely
aggregate all that data to a third party as needed all this.
utilizing iot industrial Internet of Things
so let's talk about we've got already but let's continue on with the thought about what
different capabilities we may have with our IRT
with our industrial internet of things again being able to take a piece of equipment and
connect it to the internet and then It ultimately ultimately connected to our
solution or our software and by doing so,
right it gives us a connecting that piece of equipment may give us
some real time visibility into that into that piece of equipment
Operational conditions, but overall it gives us remote monitoring
gives us the ability to view that that piece of equipment
or very all our pieces of equipment across our sites with our IRT sensors.
We're also able to utilize workflow automation
moving away from Human driven or paper-based workflows
and focusing on proactive IOT solutions that are automation driven.
Quality based Solutions. We also have
operation operational intelligence as well being able to enable real-time performance
with disability on the shop floor to to overall reduce cost increase
manufacturing flexibility and improve upon your organizational agility
again, giving your operation giving your operational
resources, the appropriate intelligence that they need to
do. Van accordingly giving them the right tools
at the right time. And then my favorite one is the digital twin
again being able to take our physical our physical process or physical equipment and
simulate that with our digital twin understand what we can do
our various capabilities and approve upon them. The digital twin
simulation is very very
critical gives us a really good understanding of kind of how our process works
again how we can better optimize it.
Here is a basic example of the IOT at work. So
here you can see in my screen here. We actually have
quite a few different regions available to us and we can see all of the pieces of equipment
that are associated to all three of our region
we can dive in so you can see here. We've got one basic dashboard that has all of our data
across our entire regions at once at our Tips
and if we wanted to we could we could start to hone down in on that data down to
particular sites line asset cell or even production lines
so we can see here that we are able to in real time view what's being run
where when how why and start to interact with that with that piece
of
equipment in real-time. Maybe we need to shut down something. Maybe we need to speak
something up. Maybe we need to do a maintenance or Iran something
all this can be View and and monitored and managed with IOT at work.
So we talked a little bit about smart manufacturing a little bit about IIT
IOT. So now let's kind of bring it all together. What about MES? What about what
about MES and IIOT and smart manufacturing. What does this all mean
together collectively?
So another basic use case here another basic example, we can see here that the we are
looking at a dashboard where we're collecting
various different bits of information, but being able to view it all like I said in
one single dashboard I'm able to see all of my this is how I can kind of have my meds and
my IOT at work at the same time.
I'm able to view my specific work cells right what pieces of
equipment or Running currently what's being done on those pieces of
equipment and then from the mid side, I can
see what orders are currently active where they are in their
in their recipe and they're in their step and their order processing
what's being done. What's the status of it and start to
understand a little bit more depth of that particular work order.
So you can see here. I can it's all about against all about the data.
It's all about viewing the data having the data in the correct form and being able to
view it in the appropriate manner so I can respond in
the appropriate way here. I can take a look at a
particular work cell. I could take a look at a particular order.
I can do whatever I need to but I could then start to hone in
on certain aspects dive down drill down
as needed. So, you know again The I started at the region and I wanted to
hone down to a particular work. So to understand what's going on
with with this one issue. Maybe we have a couple of different issues that arise across
our entire regions, but it's always the same issue.
So we need to understand. Hey what's going on? If we already have the same issue across
multiple sites. There has to be a process of business process
issue. This is how we're able to combine our iot
and our meds capabilities. So that we can start to better understand our
business process our physical our physical process and our digital process as well.
We're also able to again have a good good understanding of what
exactly is being done at all times,
right the specific steps involved in the manufacturing process your work instruction
your your protocol your Sops all that can be as we show here.
Very detail-oriented down to the individual steps itself. We can provide provide
on-the-job training. Or a rvr work instructions to give the operator
a very comprehensive view of what what should be done
and the actual steps involved in that particular
operation or process.
And here's just another view of how we can delineate the data again. It's all about data
being able to view that data in multiple ways and being able to respond to that data
with accuracy in real time.
You can see here that we got we were currently looking at one particular site and
we can see one particular work order as couple different assets that are running
are running with it. We can actually start to monitor those Asset and start to
respond to those assets should any alarms triggers
or timers expire?
So we managed to talk a lot today about kind of
what smart manufacturing is what
what are the different aspect aspects of smart manufacturing
and briefly or preliminary Ali talk about the benefits of smart manufacturing. So now
we'll kind of you know,
put a ribbon on this but put a bow in this ribbon, so to speak and talk about the
overall benefits of smart manufacturing
so A lot of times we have clients that come to us and
talk about particular pain points right issues that are arising at their business at
their site that they are trying to
they're trying to get rid of right so, you know, a lot of times
it's all around product and machine design or product engineering
issues around your plan operations or just overall your supply chain, you know,
a lot of times people are coming to us and saying, you know, I wish I could
I wish I could collaborate. Eight more. I wish I could could increase a certain KPI.
I wish I can anticipate needs more. Right all of these are pain points that are
been identified with old-school manufacturing
and have been have been included Solutions with our smart
manufacturing.
So let's talk about the actual potential of smart manufacturing.
We have seen a lot of potential with smart manufacturing right? It's
It's very evident. Very obvious. We've been able to pull this information from
from various third-party metrics. But but you know
the we'll just talk about the couple couple of
metrics that I really like to really like to mention.
You know, we have seen with smart manufacturing
of reduction of 50% an unplanned downtime right up to 97% and lower ramp up
defects around 40% percent in reduction of your
maintenance cost right and in my mind most one of the most important aspects is 90%
Improvement and right time first time quality being able to do something right the first
time these are pretty key critical metric
oriented bin if it's of smart Manufacturing
But there are some other benefits of smart manufacturing and a lot of times everyone.
These are the pretty common benefits of the smart
manufacturing right just being able to have an improved return on invested Capital
reducing your waist improving your quality reducing reducing
reducing right your costs your inventory your Cycles
right having fewer stock-outs right being able to having more consistent and
prominent customer satisfaction right being able to just overall
command and control your process better having a more agile supply chain
that just overall more flexible and capable and it is faster better in their demand
response time, which again leads you to a shorter time to Market
all of these are tangible benefit business benefits that smart manufacturing can
provide.
So a lot of times, you know, they go so why I'm smart manufacturing, you
know,
we I know the benefits that all sounds great. But but why would I want to do that? Well,
again, it's all about finding these challenges and and eliminating these
challenges with smart manufacturing a lot of times. We see with your operational
processes. We see such challenges as being not being
able to improve your operational efficiency or improving upon your asset utilization,
right? Not having that Real Time Performance visibility or not. The are not being able to
respond accordingly, maybe having some
inconsistent performance across a lines may be having some sub optimal asset utilization,
you know, or maybe from from a cost perspective right? It's
your plant has a lot of high material costs a lot of
a lot of high overhead expenses. What a high labor costs right maybe from a quality
perspective, right? We don't have a
We have an inadequate quality assurance right that leads to a lot of scrap and rework. We
have a lot of compliance issues right with smart manufacturing. We seen a business we've
seen impacts the business pretty heavily. I mean
to give you a couple of a couple examples. I mean, you know with smart manufacturing we've
able to see improved production efficiency by 20 to 30 percent right in proving your yield
by up to 15%. Right again, a lot of reductions right
reducing your labor cost your warranty costs your maintenance costs your energy costs
right reducing your cost of compliance. Okay, so a lot of a lot of value in just our
operational processes, but what about our people right? So why would
I even want smart manufacturing for our people right? Well again, you know, what if
you had a high turnover what if you had a lot of retiring Workforce know a lot of times we
see a big Ramp up for new hires, right,
you know and and increasing increasing levels of operator complexity as we as we Implement
new Solutions. So this the complexity of that solution
so does the the complexity of the process increases? Well,
right with smart manufacturing re able to see the price
the actual productivity of that worker improved by about 30%
right? We're able to have a First Quality first build quality improved by by 90%
And again we're able to reduce the overall risk
and improve approved upon the safety with our people,
right? So so again, that's that's critical, you know process these people
but hey, what about products right, you know, so a lot of times people come to us and say,
you know, why would I need smart manufacturing / to
to help with my products? Well, you know again,
maybe you have a Rigid manufacturing process maybe it has it has
very significant constraints when it comes to
flexibility and speed maybe you have a lot of delays in your product production scheduling
right which which reduces your customer satisfaction and overall market share, right?
So smart many factions able to reduce that ramp up right eliminate that ramp up by
97% That's a that's a very very critical key
KPI right there. Being able to reduce the time to Market as
well. And in my mind most importantly increasing your
agility
or your responsiveness to your Market demands being able to respond in a more effective and
efficient manner all of these are critical business and
business benefits of having a smart manufacturing strategy.
So, we know that the benefits are real, right. We
know that with a smart manufacturing strategy. I'm
able to simply just reduce labor my labor
cost my process variants my raw material variances. I can have a
better better working practices. I can have better metric tracking. I can I can follow
through with with better testing. I can follow through with better
percentage over back and Improvement various
other kpi metrics as well
as well as just again reductions reducing inventories reducing cycle times reducing
reducing various other costs as well
and get overall just approving upon your return it return on invested Capital
having a more Dynamic faster better stronger
reactive system be it more flexible more capable and
providing more agility to your supply
chain, which allows you to have better command and control of your entire value
chain overall. Smart manufacturing is just about is
about providing better consistency increasing our customer satisfaction
and stop having fewer stock outs.
That is all I have for today. I want to say thank you so much for your time. I greatly
appreciate I greatly appreciate your your patience. And again, thank you so much,
and I hope you have a good day.