Smart Operations: A winning formula for digitalization
Driving and sustaining step-change improvements in operational performance and safety can be high-impact step-ups in your organization's journey towards building a digital supply network. By introducing significant improvements in production and similar functions, such as quality and maintenance, repair and overhaul, organizations can build their 'Smart Operations' capability that will eventually synchronize all aspects of their production and operations. The capability is a highly responsive, adaptive, digitized and connected function that augments human intelligence with machine intelligence and human physical capability with machine capability to drive and sustain operational performance and safety.
Enablers for
Smart
Operations
Drivers for
Change
Moving manufacturing closing to customers results in a linear increase of demand for on-site process experts.
Manufacturing labor is becoming scarce; industry is evolving toward more complex hybrid manufacturing jobs
Real-time visibility into operations is needed to drive quality throughput
Companies increasingly need additional, richer data sets to solve modern problems
Tightly integrated systems do not allow for lengthy corrections to process errors.
Pressure to decrease the total cost of production in industrialized markets requires that direct labor be more value-added
Changes in workforce competition and size are leading to quite a shortage of skilled production planners and shop floor managers
A lack of visibility into equipment, people, processes across the supply network results in delayed decision-making & wasted resources
