Production personnel are hindered in their ability to make rapid, right-time decisions on the factory floor by their inability to gather relevant information from disparate, stand-alone systems. Additional challenges include the lack of real-time alerts on shop floor exceptions, workflows to resolve them, and relevant key performance indicators for production processes.
Manufacturing intelligence dashboards offered in the SAP Manufacturing solution provide configurable role-based entry pages that deliver the visibility production personnel need to be responsive to exceptions and changes in demand or supply, deliver superior performance, and run manufacturing at the speed of business.
Working Smarter on the Shop Floor
To thrive in a world of global competition and demanding customers, manufacturers must be able to sense and respond to change, and adapt quickly and accurately to evolving conditions. To a large extent, adaptability depends on a companys frontline production employees and making sure those employees are armed with the right information. To remove delays and errors from processes and enable manufacturing to work at the speed of the business you need to give plant managers, quality inspectors, and production and maintenance supervisors the ability to identify and resolve problems rapidly, as they arise, and to monitor, measure, and improve manufacturing performance over time.
In short, adaptiveness depends on being able to push decision making to the shop floor. But thats often easier said than done. At many companies, the various systems used for enterprise resource planning (ERP) , manufacturing execution, and shopfloor automation are not well integrated. Data is fragmented across systems. There is little or no real-time information about production events available on the shop floor. And users cannot easily access up-to-date reports and perform the rapid analyses needed to evaluate and improve performance.
Its an environment where plant managers and production personnel are overloaded with data but without ready access to essential information about orders, labor, machines, material, and capacity. Pulling information together from disparate systems is slow and difficult, and decision makers have to work without a clear, up-to-date view of what is actually happening in the plant. In short, production personnel are faced with a fundamental lack of visibility into their manufacturing operations, which makes it difficult to understand and respond to change, impairs their performance, and ultimately hampers the companys ability to meet customers needs.
Manufacturing intelligence dashboards offered in the SAP Manufacturing solution provide configurable role-based entry pages that deliver the visibility production personnel need to be responsive to exceptions and changes in demand or supply, deliver superior performance, and run manufacturing at the speed of business.
Working Smarter on the Shop Floor
To thrive in a world of global competition and demanding customers, manufacturers must be able to sense and respond to change, and adapt quickly and accurately to evolving conditions. To a large extent, adaptability depends on a companys frontline production employees and making sure those employees are armed with the right information. To remove delays and errors from processes and enable manufacturing to work at the speed of the business you need to give plant managers, quality inspectors, and production and maintenance supervisors the ability to identify and resolve problems rapidly, as they arise, and to monitor, measure, and improve manufacturing performance over time.
In short, adaptiveness depends on being able to push decision making to the shop floor. But thats often easier said than done. At many companies, the various systems used for enterprise resource planning (ERP) , manufacturing execution, and shopfloor automation are not well integrated. Data is fragmented across systems. There is little or no real-time information about production events available on the shop floor. And users cannot easily access up-to-date reports and perform the rapid analyses needed to evaluate and improve performance.
Its an environment where plant managers and production personnel are overloaded with data but without ready access to essential information about orders, labor, machines, material, and capacity. Pulling information together from disparate systems is slow and difficult, and decision makers have to work without a clear, up-to-date view of what is actually happening in the plant. In short, production personnel are faced with a fundamental lack of visibility into their manufacturing operations, which makes it difficult to understand and respond to change, impairs their performance, and ultimately hampers the companys ability to meet customers needs.
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