It is an age old conundrum for manufacturers… how do you add more capacity without increasing resources? How do you do more with the same resources?
The manufacturing industry has suffered somewhat during some of the worst economic years in recent history, but now business has begun to pick back up.
As the industry rises, and demand increases, many manufacturers are keen to exercise a great deal of caution, in terms of expansion.
This has led to many manufacturers now asking the question: “How can I grow capacity without adding extra floor space, equipment or personnel?”.
Manufacturers have two clear options when it comes to meeting a sudden growth in demand: maintain current processes and expand capacity with new employees, work centres and square footage; or to fine-tune existing resources to make them as efficient as possible, before minimal physical expansion.
To ensure the most efficient operation as possible, manufacturers need to ensure their shop floor experiences the minimum of downtime and / or waste. They need to have a plant that finishes one job and then immediately starts the next one – including the proper tools, operators and materials all ready to be deployed.
And that’s not at all easy.
An integrated and comprehensive ERP software and MES system capable of automating your shop floor processes can provide the answer however. IQMS’ shop floor software delivers a direct link between ‘work centres and high value production equipment at the PLC / sensor level to collect process parameters, and then relaying that data immediately to an ERP software solution for analysis, the process monitoring tools greatly improves efficiency and productivity.’
What’s more, as the communication is two-way, your ERP software becomes a proactive component in your manufacturing operation.
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Posted by Joe on 1st June 2020.