(Smart) Manufacturing Industry
Trends 2021
- Shift to localized production
- Acceleration Digital transformation of the factory floor
- Manufacturers will respond to increasingly high expectations from both consumers and customers
- Increased investment in the workforce (and less lip service)
- Sustainability will become an important selling point
Specifications
Challenges and Opportunities 2021
- Skilled labor gap and higher need for reshoring
- Machine Intelligence
- Customer Self-service application
- System usability
- Project management
- Trade war effects and changing regulations and laws
- Need for a supply chain visibility
- Effective Manufacturing Digital Marketing Strategy
Objectives
- Quality sensing and detecting to improve manufacturing intelligence including advanced data collection
- Include predictive analytics (This includes embedded analytics; enabling predictive technologies; and rapid response capabilities.)
- Synchronized planning by integrated scheduling and operations execution
- Factory asset intelligence and performance management
- Plant consumption and energy management
- Smart connected products
- Partnerships and alliances with external vendors
- In-house development efforts
Our Solutions/Services
- Project/Program Management to overlook and combine the different initiatives with clear milestones,
- Strategic assessment to validate/design the digital enterprise roadmap and related partnerships/alliances,
- Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics Services to design/improve manufacturing intelligence, predictive analytics and performance management
Benefits
- Improving return on digital manufacturing investments,
- Efficiency on integration of multiple related initiatives,
- An integrated manufacturing eco-system which allows for greater capacity and flexibility in adapting to market disruptions,
- Increased forecast accuracy and adaptation to market demand changes based on predictive insights,
- Improved reliability and efficiency of reporting,
- One integrated architecture combining innovative digital solutions.
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