Connect with business value with manufacturing information technology

	Layerless MES solutions Manufacturing IT achievable capabilities Electronic batch records OEE performance measurement
	What kind of value can you create? For personal within the plant and the front offices, manufacturing information integration offers many possibilities for creating value. To name just a few, you can: Reduce maintenance costs Improve operator productivity Increase equipment efficiency Improve quality Deliver product sooner Reduce WIP Increase material yields Reduce production slowdowns and stoppages Spot problems Verify the cause of problems

Manufacturing information technology is not just collecting data in your plants. It’s getting value from that data.

What is manufacturing information integration? The distribution of manufacturing intelligence and synchronization of activities in two spheres: in-plant and among plants, corporate offices, suppliers and customers. Business-to-plant information integration, or manufacturing execution systems, is covered in our section on layerless MES.

Call it what you want. Your company, like most manufacturers, likely has significant ROI waiting to be gained. You can best create it by focusing first on the result you want to achieve, not technology or “systems”.

Getting past the challenges

The connectivity necessary for within plant and business-to-plant information integration has been available for three decades and is now more feasible than ever. The problem? Actually, there are three primary hurdles:

• Knowing which problems to solve or value-driving capabilities to add—or, at least, prioritizing where to start
• Deciding how to do it
• Overcoming the cultural barriers to getting it done, particularly for MES   

Focusing on value

At RoviSys, we’ve been helping companies get value from production information for nearly two decades. While technology advances have increased what is achievable, our approach remains the same:

• Identify and recommend the projects with the most favorable return
• Look first to leverage capabilities available within your existing systems
• As needed, introduce tools that enable you to collect, aggregate and use data from multiple sources to make good real-time and strategic decisions
• Engineer supportable and scalable solutions that focus on the results you want to achieve now while allowing for functionality you might want to add later

The idea is simple: don’t just connect, present useful data. Allow automation where beneficial. Solve problems and create value. For more information, contact Joe Maukonen today.

What kind of value can you create?

For personal within the plant and the front offices, manufacturing information integration offers many possibilities for creating value. To name just a few, you can:

• Reduce maintenance costs
• Improve operator productivity
• Increase equipment efficiency
• Improve quality
• Deliver product sooner
• Reduce WIP
• Increase material yields
• Reduce production slowdowns and stoppages
• Spot problems
• Verify the cause of problems