Manufacturing Consultancy and the Enact® Manufacturing Quality Intelligence Platform

Your Expertise. Our Solutions. Your Clients’ Success.

IntroductionThe manufacturing sector is rapidly progressing toward a digital future. Not because new digital technologies are emerging. And more established digital technologies, which have the potential to transform manufacturing operations, are maturing. But because of the fundamental changes in the markets they serve, and across the environments within which they operate.

In an increasingly global and digitally connected world, consumers have a greater freedom of choice, greater access to information and a greater influence on other consumers. The transformations brought about by social media, online price comparison, rating and review services, along with E-Commerce, ‘bricks vs clicks’, global sales and distribution networks are beyond disruptive. It has up-ended the balance of power, with the consumer (both B2B and B2C consumers) firmly in the driving seat. Not only do today’s consumers demand better, faster and cheaper goods and services, they have the power to coral entire markets into delivering it. No longer can the big global brands rely solely on scale and momentum. As smaller manufacturers gain access to new market opportunities, all businesses must remain agile and competitive in order to remain relevant to today’s consumer.

The environment in which manufacturers operate is also becoming increasingly disruptive. Geo-political policies and trends are making supply chains more volatile (such as with Brexit). Labour migration policies, as well as emerging and maturing economies, are impacting on the availability and cost of labour. Governments and citizens are becoming increasingly concerned around corporate, social, and environmental issues – such as sustainability, climate change, resource waste and even corporate capitalism. This is simply forcing all manufacturers to become more responsible and more transparent across their entire supply chain operations. If not by regulation and legislation, by consumer pressure brought about by naming and shaming brands that do not live up to their expectations. And of course, by their purchasing choices.

From Automation to Optimization

These trends are fundamental and cannot be ignored by any manufacturer. While the last several decades have largely focused on industrial and supply chain automation – the focus over the next several decades will be on manufacturing optimization. Most manufacturers have become much more efficient through the widespread use of automation technologies and techniques. Further investment in automation alone continues to bring smaller and smaller gains in productivity and efficiency, as most of the low hanging fruit from automation has already been harvested. Yet automation should not be confused with optimization. Simply automating an inefficient process will still be inefficient, just not quite as inefficient.

Instead, manufacturing optimization is about balancing the three core pillars of minimizing cost, maximizing value and mitigating risk across the entire manufacturing process and supply chain.

The Opportunity for Manufacturing Consultancies

This focus on manufacturing optimization, in the most part, is what’s behind the drive towards digitalizing manufacturing processes and supply chains ̶ commonly referred to as Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. But it is not solely technology which provides the silver bullet.

While technology plays a critically important role, where the real value is realised, is in how that technology is utilised. As a result, manufacturers are increasingly turning to external expertise to help drive the adoption of new digital technologies and to help to analyse and re-engineer manufacturing and quality processes across the supply chain. All of this, in order to achieve the new levels of manufacturing optimization that is needed to drive future growth and success.

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This focus on manufacturing optimization, in the most part, is what’s behind the drive towards digitalizing manufacturing processes and supply chains ̶ commonly referred to as Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing. But it is not solely technology which provides the silver bullet.

While technology plays a critically important role, where the true value is realised, is in how that technology is utilised. As a result, manufacturers are increasingly turning to external expertise to help drive the adoption of new digital technologies, and to help to analyse and re-engineer manufacturing and quality processes across the supply chain. All of this, in order to achieve the new levels of manufacturing optimization that is needed to drive future growth and success.

The Importance of Data and InsightWhat is foundational to all of these approaches is data. And importantly, the insight that is gained from that data; and how in turn, those insights are used to drive operational transformation.

At InfinityQS, this is what we call the Excellence Loop:

Enterprise VisibilityEnterprise-wide data collection and access to real-time data across manufacturing and quality processes stored in a standardized and centralized repository.

Operational InsightReal-time access to data analytics, intelligence and visualization across dimensions such as processes, plants, products or personnel.

Global TransformationPrioritize and target process and quality improvement initiatives as well as monitor performance improvements and results.

From a manufacturing consultancy perspective, when engaging with clients on improvement programs, these data and analytics foundations often do not already exist. And if they do, they are often based around manual data collection and where data is held in siloed and disparate sources. Attempting to work with clients on improvement initiatives, with the absence of data, is a major impediment to success. It is one of the primary challenges that needs to be overcome first, but which can consume significant resource and time.

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A core asset, within any successful manufacturing consultancy organization’s services portfolio, is to provide support and services which enables their clients to put in place, the sustainable foundations for data collection, data analysis and data intelligence to support performance improvement initiatives.

Your Expertise. Our Solutions. Your Clients’ Success.InfinityQS’s Global Partner Program provides Manufacturing Consultancy organizations with the opportunity to help their clients to deploy Enact® ̶- our world-class Manufacturing Quality Intelligence Solution. Not only does Enact® enable those clients to transform their manufacturing and quality processes, it also allows their Manufacturing Consultancy partners to have access to the real-time data and insights, needed to significantly improve the outcomes from their performance improvement initiatives.

The synergy provided by becoming an Enact® Partner enables you combine your expertise with our solution, in order to help your clients achieve transformative improvements, across their manufacturing and quality operations.

In addition to strengthening your portfolio of services and creating further competitive differentiation, our Enact® Channel Partners receive significant sales compensation, as well as a source of additional services revenue, by providing Enact®-related deployment, training and supporting services.

The Enact® Manufacturing Quality Intelligence SolutionEnact® is a native-cloud Quality Intelligence platform, powered by real-time Statistical Process Control (SPC). Whatever the industry, Enact® can help to improve product quality in an affordable way and transform the way quality data is viewed. Enact®’s Unified Data Repository brings together and standardizes all quality and process data, helping decrease costs and enabling better, faster operations decisions.

Enact® is designed for the cloud and deployed on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform – ensuring unparalleled performance, scalability and availability – anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Enact®’s flexible subscription-based pricing, based on monthly usage makes it one of the most cost-effective solutions on the market. The cloud deployment model also means that no dedicated hardware or software is required, eliminating any upfront investment.

ANYWHERE, ANYTIME ACCESS Role-Based Access to Quality Metrics via Web Browser

FLEXIBLE DATA COLLECTIONManual, Semi-Automated, and Fully Automated

MICROSOFT AZURE CLOUD

ENACT WEB APPLICATION

CORE FEATURES

Data Collection

Data Filtering

Data AnalyticsNotifications

Shop Floor

Manual Entry

Production Equipment

Lab Devices

Shop Floor Devices

Management Production

Quality

Dashboards

Process Modeling

User & Security MGMT

ENACT SYSTEM DIAGRAM

UNIFIED DATA HANDLING ENGINES

Calculation Engine

Sampling Engine

Real-Time Analytics Engine

Notification Engine

CLIENT DEDICATED DATABASE

Enact is a cloud-based Quality Intelligence platform that “just knows,” delivering tailored quality insight to users regardless of location to improve product quality, reduce risk, and lower cost.

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Benefits of the Enact® platformManufacturing Consultancies and their clients can benefit from Enact®’s native-cloud capabilities, as well as InfinityQS’ decades of SPC and manufacturing industry expertise:

Unparalleled data visibility

Enact® standardizes manufacturing and quality data, whether collected manually or automatically. Data is unified so that manufacturers can get a “big picture” view of process quality.

Targeted, strategic insight

Enact® users gain access to quality data and alerts, based on their roles and responsibilities. Highly visual, customizable dashboards help users focus on the data that they need and tune out the excess. Enact®’s SaaS model provides mobility and availability of data.

Secure, efficient, flexible deployment model

The SaaS platform also speeds implementation, swaps out time-consuming upgrades for updates, and minimizes TCO. Plus, Enact® integrates with existing infrastructure.

Scalability and cost effectiveness

Fast, immensely scalable, and unbelievably affordable, Enact® enables manufacturers to increase or decrease the size of their implementation as needed. The platform’s ability to use parts recipes to apply process models across products enables impressive ROI.

Data collection and visualization that works like they do

Data collections in Enact® support both manual entry or semi-automated entry (through scales, calipers, etc.). They are designed to be reused, and can be available on demand or at set time intervals. Data collections and data summaries are prioritized for the user, highlighting collections that are due, as well as data streams that need attention.

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Take the Next StepsTo learn more about Enact® and the Global Partner Program, contact the Partner Team on +44 (0) 1582 380 560 or email us on partners@infinityqs.com

The InfinityQS® Partner Program provides a truly transformative opportunity for Partners to leverage the industry leading capabilities of the Enact® Quality Intelligence Platform and the Global reputation of the InfinityQS brand.

Whether you are a Service Provider, Equipment Manufacturer or a Reseller: becoming an InfinityQS Partner will not only significantly enhance your service portfolio capabilities – with our highly generous commission structure, it will also significantly enhance your bottom line.

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Our existing Global Partner network stem from across the Service Provider sectors listed below. Explore the sector which best fits your business and discover how Enact® works within your area of expertise.

How Enact® Works with Your Sector

Automation and Control

Automation and Control Service Providers can help their manufacturing clients to unlock greater value from their shop floor data

assets by leveraging the powerful capabilities of the Enact® Manufacturing and Quality Intelligence platform. Enhance your expertise

and solution portfolio by becoming an Enact® Partner.

Industrial IT Services

Industrial IT Service Providers can help their manufacturing clients realize greater value from their digital transformation, smart factory

and Industry 4.0 initiatives by leveraging the powerful capabilities of the Enact® Manufacturing and Quality Intelligence platform. Enhance your

expertise and solution portfolio by becoming an Enact® Partner.

Quality Management

Quality Management Services Providers can help their manufacturing clients transform their quality processes and initiatives by leveraging the

powerful capabilities of the Enact® Manufacturing and Quality Intelligence platform. Enhance your expertise and solution portfolio by becoming an

Enact® Partner.

Manufacturing Consultancy Service Providers can help their manufacturing clients unlock greater value from their performance

improvement programs such as continuous improvement, lean six-sigma and total quality management by leveraging the powerful capabilities of

the Enact® Manufacturing and Quality Intelligence platform. Enhance your expertise and services portfolio by becoming an Enact® Partner.