Staying Competitive
In highly-competitive markets, discrete manufacturing organisations need to focus upon improving their overall performance in order
to stay competitive.
Top 5 Improvement Priorities
The 5 top priorities for improvement that US and Europe based manufacturing organisations are seeking are:
- Shorter leadtimes
- Improved quality
- Ability to accommodate increased product mix with existing resources
- Lower prices
- More complete and on-time shipments
(Source: AMR Research report 2007)
Compromised KPIs
In manufacturing organisations that do not use MES, the above 5 KPI’s are compromised for many reasons including the following:
- Vital information that is fed to and collected from the plant is managed using inefficient methods such as paper, spreadsheets,
standalone applications and manual processes. Data is often duplicated and a lot of wasted human resource time is spent managing,
processing and transporting this data.
- Performance feedback from the process is very limited and at best is out-of-date by the time someone can make an
informed decision.
- Mistakes are made because the quality and timeliness of important information is inhibited.
- The ability to introduce rapid change effectively is poor.
Clearly, all aspects of the manufacturing business need to be optimised to achieve the ‘5 key goals’. However, Mestec focuses
upon the heart of them all; the manufacturing process itself.
Release Performance Potential
By providing a solution that removes the inhibitors to improvement, Mestec empowers the manufacturing organisation and
releases its performance potential. Some benefits are immediate and some are delivered over time. ROI for a Mestec
implementation is typically between 3 and 12 months.
Manufacturing Performance Audit
In the first instance, Mestec helps manufacturing organisations understand what their key operational performance inhibitors are,
what they cost the organisation and then how much they can be improved by an ‘intelligent’ plant solution.
Mestec’s 3-day consultancy process seeks to provide all these answers together with a tangible ROI estimate.
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The output from the ROI estimate typically includes estimates against the following KPI’s:
- Reduced internal and external rejects
- Reduced working capital (reduced WIP)
- Increased market share
- Reduced direct and indirect labour costs
- Increased capacity
- Reduced product costs