Manufacturing Optimization: How Rapid Deployment and Advisory Services Will Benefit Your Shop Floor

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The need for smart and efficient solutions has never been greater. Shoplogix, a leading provider of Smart Factory software, offers a comprehensive suite of professional services designed for your manufacturing optimization and continuous improvement. From rapid deployment services to advisory services, Shoplogix is dedicated to empowering manufacturers on their journey towards operational excellence.

Manufacturing Optimization With Smart Factory Suite

At the core of Shoplogix’s professional services is the Smart Factory Suite, a comprehensive set of tools and technologies that enable manufacturers to achieve real-time visibility, actionable insights, and operational excellence. The suite consists of the following key components:

Digital Whiteboard & Core Analytics: Provides a real-time view of the shop floor, enabling proactive decision-making and collaboration.

Analytics Suite: Harnesses advanced analytics and manufacturing intelligence to drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

MES Suite: Empowers production and employee management through a range of modules, including SPC Messaging, Digital Andon, Labor Quality Action Plan, and Energy Management.

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Overview Professional Services

Shoplogix offers you a host of professional services for your manufacturing optimization, which include rapid deployment and advisory services. Through these services, our specialists assist you in boosting your manufacturing floor.

Key Components of Rapid Deployment

Rapid Deployment Services are a critical component of Shoplogix’s professional services, offering manufacturers a streamlined and efficient path to implementing Smart Factory solutions. This service consists of three key elements:

1. Installation: Shoplogix’s expert team ensures a seamless and efficient installation process, minimizing disruption to operations and accelerating time to value.

2. Configuration: Tailoring the Smart Factory Suite to the unique needs and requirements of each manufacturing environment, ensuring maximum impact and value.

3. Training: Equipping manufacturers with the knowledge and skills to leverage the full potential of the Smart Factory Suite, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Benefits of Rapid Deployment Services

The implementation of Rapid Deployment Services offers a range of benefits that directly impact the shop floor, including:

Accelerated time to value: By streamlining the installation and configuration process, Rapid Deployment Services enable manufacturers to realize the benefits of the Smart Factory Suite more quickly, allowing for rapid improvements in shop floor operations and performance.

Minimized disruption to operations: The seamless and efficient installation and configuration process minimizes disruption to day-to-day operations, ensuring that production schedules and output are not adversely affected during the implementation of Smart Factory solutions.

Cost savings: Rapid Deployment Services help to minimize the time and resources required for implementation, resulting in cost savings for manufacturers. By accelerating the time to value and minimizing disruption, manufacturers can achieve a faster return on investment and realize long-term cost savings.

Key Components of Advisory Services

Shoplogix’s advisory services packages are a new and optional addition to their offerings. These packages can be either included with Shoplogix’s deployment services or purchased separately by existing customers. Please note that these packages are only available to customers who have already purchased the Smart Factory software.

Benefits of Advisory Services

The advisory services are designed to provide expert insights to optimize manufacturing operations and offer the following key benefits:

Optimizes software with expert recommendations: The advisory services provide manufacturers with expert recommendations to optimize the Shoplogix software, ensuring that it is tailored to their specific needs and requirements.

Customizes advisory services to fit unique needs: The advisory services are customized to fit the unique needs of each manufacturing environment, ensuring that manufacturers receive tailored guidance and support.

Maximizes effectiveness of deployment services: By working in conjunction with the deployment services, the advisory services maximize the effectiveness of the Smart Factory Suite, ensuring that manufacturers achieve the best possible results from their investment.

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Detailed Advisory Overview

Shoplogix’s professional service package options for rapid deployment and advisory services include Advanced Connectivity Services, the 365-Day Management System Deployment/Coaching Plan, 365-Day Capability/Advisory Services and the Health Check service.

Advanced Connectivity Services

Shoplogix’s IoT specialists are prepared to handle the most intricate equipment configurations, showing unparalleled expertise as they shape the plant’s IoT landscape. They create a custom project plan that suits the unique machinery and network needs of the plant. With a firm grasp of project goals and timelines, the team ensures smooth communication throughout the process. All these concerted efforts lead to a substantial reduction in the time needed for production deployment, positioning the company as an ideal partner in navigating the IoT sphere.

365-Day Management System Deployment/Coaching Plan

The 365-Day Management System Deployment/Coaching Plan is a comprehensive approach to integrating new software into manufacturing operations. This plan, offered by Continuous Improvement (CI) experts, involves ongoing mentoring and coaching to ensure seamless integration of the software. By leveraging best practices and key data outputs, it helps maximize their impact during operational reviews and meetings.

A significant aspect of this plan is empowering employees to take action and enhance plant efficiency. By doing so, it contributes to improving plant productivity by an average of 13% to 27%, demonstrating the substantial benefits of this strategic deployment and coaching plan.

This strategy aligns with the broader trend of deploying management systems over a course of a year, which allows ample time for training, integration and adjustment to the new system. The 365-day timeframe also corresponds to typical mobilization periods in certain contexts, further emphasizing the importance of comprehensive, long-term planning.

365-Day Capability/Advisory Services

The 365-Day Capability/Advisory Services offered by the company presents a focused and collaborative approach to plant management. This service includes:

  • Expert monitoring of plant equipment data, promptly identifying any anomalies.
  • Collaboration with clients to identify and analyze trends.
  • Prioritization, tracking, and reporting on high-impact areas for process improvements.

Additional benefits include:

  • Augmentation of the Continuous Improvement (CI) team and processes.
  • Driving improvements using data and insights.
  • An average improvement in plant performance by 10%.

Health Check

The company’s Continuous Improvement (CI) experts conduct data-driven workshops that combine industry expertise and CI best practices. These workshops aim to boost the value of the business operations. They are structured to help identify areas for improvement, prioritize CI initiatives, and achieve sustainable performance gains.

Key benefits include:

  • Strengthening deployment with on-site reviews.
  • Achieving maximum financial value.
  • Standardizing best practices across manufacturing plants.

Final Thoughts

Rapid deployment services and advisory services are essential for manufacturers considering smart factory solutions. These services can drive operational excellence, improve productivity, and ensure a clear understanding of project goals and timelines. Research consistently shows that smart factory technologies improve cost, throughput, quality, safety, and revenue growth. Smart factories operate more efficiently and are expected to be the main driver of competition by 2025, with 83 percent of US manufacturers believing in their transformative power.

About Shoplogix

Shoplogix is redefining the manufacturing business by establishing a smart factory platform as the foundation for digitally transforming production performance. By enabling manufacturers to visualize, integrate and respond in real time to production performance, Shoplogix enables manufacturers to unlock latent shop floor potential and accelerate time to value.

Choose smart manufacturing, choose Shoplogix.

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