Intelligent Production Excellence

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In today’s challenging automotive landscape, many manufacturers have begun to incorporate smart technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their operations. However, achieving operational excellence with smart manufacturing requires more than the generation of data. With our Smart Manufacturing solution, efficiency and quality issues are addressed automatically and in real-time using sensors, edge-based devices, the IoT (internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence), and low code applications that work together seamlessly. By creating a complete loop of communication in the plant, manufacturers can establish a self-organizing production environment in which manufacturing lines can essentially manage themselves. These intelligent production processes enable manufactures to reduce costs, improve productivity, ensure cybersecurity, and drive high quality from launch through production.

In today’s challenging automotive landscape, many manufacturers have begun to incorporate smart technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their operations. However, achieving operational excellence with smart manufacturing requires more than the generation of data. With our Smart Manufacturing solution, efficiency and quality issues are addressed automatically and in real-time using sensors, edge-based devices, the IoT (internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence), and low code applications that work together seamlessly. By creating a complete loop of communication in the plant, manufacturers can establish a self-organizing production environment in which manufacturing lines can essentially manage themselves. These intelligent production processes enable manufactures to reduce costs, improve productivity, ensure cybersecurity, and drive high quality from launch through production.

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Meet production targets with smart manufacturing execution

The increasing complexity of today’s automotive industry requires manufacturers to add flexibility to their operations without losing efficiency or productivity. Our Smart Manufacturing solution includes the manufacturing execution systems (MES) which act as the brains of the smart plant by connecting people, processes, and machines so that manufacturers can integrate requirements, synchronize operations, manage the supply chain effectively, and reduce production costs. The MES also streamlines ordering, process planning, scheduling, and the execution of work orders through the electronic delivery of instructions in real-time to the shop floor. Advanced production intelligence through our manufacturing execution solution ensures that manufacturers consistently produce the correct parts on time to optimize operational execution, maximize performance, and meet production targets.

Drive operational excellence with closed-loop manufacturing

The achievement of world-class quality is the most critical and challenging component of operational excellence in automotive manufacturing. The key to producing high-quality products consistently is access to predictive, actionable insights through a constant two-way flow of information. With our Smart Manufacturing solution, manufacturers use edge-based devices, AI, and the IoT to constantly monitor product quality and compliance at each stage and predict issues before they occur. This results in a closed-loop manufacturing environment that essentially manages itself to keep the line running. The collection of operational data in real-time confirms the quality of the current product while also generating insights that can be fed back into the development to improve future product quality and production efficiency.

A plant engineer is working on a car body that is moving down a manufacturing assembly line.

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