The main constituents of manufacturing operations management include financial planning, production order scheduling, material management, quality management and production resource scheduling.

They’re also some of the most difficult and complex in the manufacturing plant.

What they all have in common is that they require information, insights, and data manipulation tools from leadership to comprehend, plan, manage, and support - usually remotely to the factory floor.

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS

Since the decisions made and planning initiatives undertaken by manufacturing operations management are almost exclusively data-, information-, and insight-driven - everything in the plant needs to be connected.

Manufacturing Execution (MES) systems linking the automation, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and cloud layers are critical. Other functions also hang in the balance: KPIs, order scheduling and Recipe Management, production resource scheduling and scheduled downtime planning rely heavily on them as well.

Without all these components working in concert, typical operations management issues often include:

Complex order schedules, customer demands and profitability sub-optimized for operations management automation equipment utilization negatively impacting production, customer satisfaction and profitability
Conflict generating order scheduling, production, and planned downtime leading to production downtime due to deferred production equipment maintenance
Labor and production means mismatched to production demands causing bloated or insufficient production resources
Material flow shortages or model mix requirements mismatched to production demands causing blocked and starved production flow
KPIs driving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), quality, throughput and downtime improvement initiatives are not measured for impact and efficiency and impacting production and profitability
Effective quality initiatives are very difficult to plan, institute and maintain

BENEFITS OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DIGITAL SOLUTIONS

Operations management leadership can rely on the information and insights afforded them by INGENOVA360’s MES systems to provide the intelligence needed to run their operations and drive continuous improvement plans.

INGENOVA360’s user interfaces, algorithms and embedded acumen integrate the manufacturing floor with the company’s business systems to facilitate superior decisions and planning - from finance to operator work instruction management to maintenance downtime planning.

The scalable and extensible nature of INGENOVA360 solutions make them adaptable to a customer’s needs, providing the following functions and benefits:

Effective integration of production scheduling and planned maintenance downtime
KPI analysis of post-run quality and performance data to support process, component, and system improvement initiatives
Dashboards displaying (and correlating) KPI trends with real-time OEE aggregation at multiple levels, including automation, line, area, plant and enterprise
Throughput visualization to comprehend underlying causes of blocked and starved conditions as well as other more nebulous production loss situations
Machine learning and AI-generated information to drive automated and/or resource-driven actionable corrective actions to optimize production
Quality analytics to help drive supplier accountability, improvements and resolutions

Digital Solutions provided by INGENOVA360 are key success tools for operations management leadership and the competitive demands placed on them. Productivity and profitability are the results of effective planning, OEE management, quality initiatives, resource scheduling, financial planning to name a few - and these functions must be integrated and leveraging each other constantly and persistently.

That is the province of INGENOVA360 and JR Automation’s Digital Solutions team.

THINK, SOLVE, AND CREATE WITH JR AUTOMATION

INGENOVA360 Digital Solutions provide systems that allow for optimized planning, including real-time system response to changing inputs and system conditions, real-time monitoring, visualization, and analysis of operating performance and quality KPIs to enable proactively addressing issues as they arise. Having the ability to have a post-run analysis of quality data and system performance will support process, component, and system performance improvement initiative.

By collecting data from processes, people, machines, devices, and systems, aggregating that data and transforming it into information and insights, INGENOVA360 and JR Automation will give you the operations management tools to help you meet the manufacturing demands of Industry 4.0.

JR Automation has married its 40 plus years of automation development expertise with the highly technical demand of Industry 4.0, and the results are INGENOVA360.

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