Manufacturing Today
What does it take to win in 21st century manufacturing?
Manufacturing companies must quickly adapt, and understand the impact that technology has on their industry.
Manufacturing faces rapidly shifting markets, intense global competition and pressure for efficiencies in ways never seen before. Technologies appear to help, but many companies still deal with pain day-to-day. For instance:
- Are the “shop floor and top floor” connected? How are decisions made when production data is out of synch with HR and QA data?
- How is JIT realized when in-line sequencing fails?
- How does one measure efficiency improvements when shop floor data is discarded?
- Do research and development, engineering and production share a common platform?
- How are improvements measured to meet external cost reduction mandates?
- How is environmental improvement measured? Do regulatory agencies request/demand data?
Manufacturing industry leaders have engaged with LÛCRUM and together tackled many of these pressing problems.
Some examples of these solutions:
- Designed and deployed software solutions that collect shop floor data and combine it with back-office financial information to create “actionable” information for manufacturing managers and executives. The solution helped reduce inventory, drive higher product quality and improve overall manufacturing efficiency.
- Developed a production planning system that helped optimize the manufacturing mix across all North American plants based on very complex business rules and manufacturing constraints.
