From Harvard Business Review · · 2m
Connected data transforms factory operations
Manufacturers using unified data platforms across design, construction and operations achieve faster production, less waste and better decision-making.
In brief
Manufacturers using unified data platforms across design, construction and operations achieve faster production, less waste and better decision-making. Manufacturers adopting connected data platforms across planning, design, build and operations stages reduce waste, accelerate production and improve resilience…
The digital factory promise
The digital factory model pairs greater throughput and supply chain efficiency with reduced waste and machine downtime, built to withstand macroeconomic and regulatory pressures.
Digital maturity determines success
A company's ability to execute on business priorities directly correlates to how connected and digitized its systems are. Many organizations with low digital maturity struggle with operational chaos.
Connected platforms link all stages
An upgrade to connected data platforms can help manufacturers connect workflows at the plan, design, build, and operate stages, linking engineering, construction, and manufacturing operations on one platform.
Eaton optimizes with digital twins
Eaton, a global power management company, upgraded its energy management software to support building digital twins. This helped create intelligent, interactive three D replicas of factory environments for predictive analysis.
Porsche builds Stuttgart factory efficiently
Porsche planned its Taycan electric vehicle factory on a constrained urban site in Stuttgart, Germany.The automaker introduced design, engineering, and building information modeling workflows to coordinate the facility within tight space, speed, and performance requirements.
“In the model, all designers, planners, and suppliers speak the same language. It's like a kind of symphony where people meet and everything comes together.”
Viessmann compresses time to market
Viessmann, a global heating, ventilation, and air conditioning manufacturer, used an AI powered three D planning model to build a heat pump plant in Legnica, Poland within two years of initial planning.
“The speed with which we were able to build was a great success. But even greater than that was the fact that the most diverse groups could work together intensively.”
Bridgestone scales automation gains
Bridgestone, the world's largest tire and rubber company, expanded a six month automation initiative into an ongoing digital transformation effort. A common data foundation helps the company reduce waste and rework while scaling factory improvements.
Close data gaps to build resilience
For leaders seeking to transform manufacturing operations into digital factories, establishing higher digital maturity is mission critical. They must identify where factory data is reentered, translated, or lost across planning, design, build, and operations.
The short version
Manufacturers adopting connected data platforms across planning, design, build and operations stages reduce waste, accelerate production and improve resilience.
