Accelerating Operational Excellence in 2015: Driving Efficiency on the Shop Floor

Addressing operations challenges

Catavolt launched a survey titled “How Leading Manufacturers are Accelerating Operational Excellence” in September 2014, to gain insight on how manufacturing organizations are working to continuously improve their operations, workflows and business processes.

We collected 111 responses from manufacturing professionals in various disciplines on trends and technology that are driving operational excellence. Increased competition in the market, meeting customer expectations, rapidly changing plant floor conditions, and the need to increase revenue, is pushing manufacturing organizations across all industries towards more efficient operational processes.

What is most critical for driving operational excellence in manufacturing?

•  Manufacturing organizations are always looking for new ways to accelerate processes and enhance production on the shop floor

•  Operational excellence initiatives can now be accelerated by utilizing real-

time data delivered to decision makers in both the supply and demand chains

•  With mobility, executive management teams can get out of the office and on to the shop floor to coach their employees to drive efficiency.

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Challenges on the manufacturing shop floor

•  Relying on manual processes for managing data with paper forms and spreadsheets that are prone to human error

•  Accuracy and integrity of data and the

ability to make that data actionable

•  Managing multiple shop floor locations’ materials, inventory, and shipments

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How mobility helps manufacturing organizations

Mobility on the manufacturing shop floor can streamline production processes and enhance responsiveness to customers

Mobile apps give organizations the ability to monitor production volume and receive disruption alerts, collaborate with teams in multiple locations, and monitor labor and repair costs in one place, all while replacing manual, paper-based processes. Mobile apps give your organization the ability to monitor production volume and receive disruption alerts, collaborate with teams in multiple locations, and monitor labor and repair costs in one place, all while replacing manual, paper-based processes

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Mobility creates customer value at every step of the manufacturing process

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Marketing Post Sale

Inventory Control

Real-time Logistics

Scheduling

Receipt Acknowledgements

Product Lead Times

Order Tracking

Scheduling Visibility

Quality Control

Dispatch Scheduling

Logistics

Route Optimization

Warehouse Automation

Work Order Approvals

Service Manuals

Service Performance

Dealer Management

Customer DashboardSales Reporting

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Read our report & learn more about how mobility drives operational excellence

Click here to view Catavolt’s “Accelerating Operational

Excellence in 2015: Trends and Technology” Report

www.catavolt.com

• The top three challenges that manufacturing

teams encounter when driving operational

excellence

• How manufacturing organizations are using

technology like mobility to accelerate their

operational excellence journey