Smart Manufacturing Financial Benefits
COSTS
PROFIT
Feature
Production Trend Awareness
Benefit
Identify new negative trends before they become big yield detractors.
Automated Process Tuning
Maximize yield and minimize scrap by compensating for raw material variation.
Discover Opportunities
Complete and organized data illuminates previously hidden process improvement opportunities.
Real-Time Feedback
Provides live performance data to immediately evaluate process changes.
Track Employee Performance
Identify specific training needs for individual employees.
Process Enforcement
Ensures that process operations are not skipped, improving quality.
New Component Evaluation
After engineering adjustments or supplier changes,
evaluate new product performance against historical results.
Maintenance Reminders
Identify upcoming maintenance activities to avoid downtime.
Work Instructions
Automatically displays the required instructions. Eliminates the need to search through cumbersome printed manuals.
Streamlines Revision Process
Work instruction changes are implemented on the central server and automatically distributed to all workstations immediately, ensuring consistency across workstations and saving manpower.
Avoid Operator Errors
Reduce scrap and rework by clearing identifying details that separate similar products.
Minimize Training Costs
New operator training time is minimized since detailed work instructions are presented for each unique product.
Minimize Recall Costs
Identify the specific products affected by supplier component recalls. Traceability data would indicate the specific work orders, carton numbers and customers affected by the recall.
Quality Certification
Provide a quality certificate with each product identifying the use of proper components & stringent quality testing success.
Litigation Defense
A complete record of all successfully completed quality assurance tests could be produced to prove a product was functional before shipment.
Electronic Work Orders
Eliminates the cost of printing and delivering paper work orders to each of the production lines.
Improved Data Accuracy
Eliminates the errors created when process data is manually tracked and recorded.
Enforce Consistency
Automated process control assures quality by avoiding process variation.