Engineering Operational Excellence in to Every Manufacturing Business Process with Mobility

Optimizing manufacturing engineering and R&D processes

55% of R&D spending takes place in manufacturing organizations to provide breakthroughs in production technology.

Since 2008, manufacturing engineering and R&D spending has reached over 55%, in an effort to modernize operations and remain competitive in the market. While manufacturing organizations are working to optimize R&D spending, it is necessary to provide breakthroughs in product technology and drive customer value.

Mobility provides manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to accelerate their R&D initiatives cost effectively. Mobile apps keep your teams productive, improve sluggish processes that hinder collaboration, and increase workflow efficiency. With mobility, your team can innovate products without lowering quality.

Current trends in engineering and R&D operational excellence

•  Use of advanced technology to speed up productivity, increase communication and efficiency, and maintain quality by better streamlining processes

•  Tighter integration of R&D, production, mass customization and increased automation

•  Increased data-intensive processes that result in lower costs and increased reliability

The Old Reality vs The New Reality

NEW REALITY Mobility provides the opportunity for manufacturing organizations to innovate in-house. New apps allow for better collaboration between business unit leaders and IT.

Organizations hired costly consulting firms to drive operational excellence initiatives for lean manufacturing and establish a culture of continuous improvement.

OLD REALITY

The Old Reality vs The New Reality

NEW REALITY Consumers have been trained to use mobile devices, and new mobile apps provide a fast, personalized user experience custom-tailored for their role.

Organizations were constrained for resources when trying to adapt current engineering and R&D teams to new business processes.

OLD REALITY

The Old Reality vs The New Reality

NEW REALITY Mobile apps provide manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to modernize and replace cumbersome processes in a cheaper, more efficient way.

Organizations relied on outdated manual processes, such as collaborating using paper or spreadsheets, which are time-consuming and prone to human error.

OLD REALITY

Identify customer value by responding to their needs

Identify Customer Value With automated, data-intensive systems, engineering and R&D teams can focus on customer value and engineer their processes to be lean and efficient.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility optimizes every point on the customer value chain to deliver the maximum efficiency, responsiveness and customer value.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Optimize processes by understanding customer values

Map the Value Stream Engineering and R&D teams receive feedback on what their customers truly value in terms of products and services. This feedback is used to optimize improvements where they are needed.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides the tools engineering and R&D teams need to optimize processes and increase responsiveness to customers.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Track metrics and eliminate waste with the right data

Create Flow

Accelerate engineering initiatives by providing right-time, accurate data that puts engineering and R&D teams to work.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobile apps encourage a culture of increased data collection and integrity, which allows better fine-tuning of critical business processes.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Optimize materials and labor to measure customer buying habits

Establish Pull Engineering and R&D teams have now identified where to be more responsive to customers. The teams have also collected data to optimize processes and make material and labor decisions for desired input and outputs.

Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides a way to put metrics to work, modernizing processes and optimizing materials and labor costs to get the job done.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Pursue perfection with continuous evaluation of current processes

Pursue Perfection By making processes more efficient and productive, it is easier to drive continuous improvement. Your team can now understand customer value and how to maximize processes to meet their needs. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility gives your team the opportunity to pursue perfection through iterative, continuous improvement.

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Pursue Perfection(Continuous

Improvement)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow(Track Metrics)

Establish Pull(Optimize Materials

and Labor)

Mobility adds value from supply chain to sale

Supply Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales &

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

Customer Dashboard

Sales Reporting

Quotes/Estimating

Competitor Intel/Analytics

Work Order Approvals

Service Manuals

Service Performance

Dealer Management

Improve primary manufacturing functions with mobility

Admin, IT and Finance

Human Resources

Procurement

Product Development

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Examples of pre-built manufacturing engineering and R&D apps

Replace manual, paper-based processes

Improve performance with real-time data delivery

Collaborate with your team in multiple locations

How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?

Identify a meaningful engineering or R&D challenge or need that could be addressed with a mobile app.

Many challenges in engineering and R&D tend to be the "little things" that add up to daily frustration and loss of productivity for the team or manage-ment. Examples include relying on manual process-es and collecting information manually on paper.

How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?

Start a conversation with your internal IT department about existing policies and procedures that might be applicable to mobile app deployment. When researching mobile apps, security should be a top priority for your manufacturing engineering and R&D team. Keep your IT team involved as you HYDOXDWH�VROXWLRQV�DQG�DSSV�WKDW�DUH�WDLORUHG�WR�ĆW�your team's needs.

How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?

Start a conversation with your team, ad-dressing their pain points and how their job can be made easier with a mobile app.

For a mobile app to be successful for your engineer-

ing and R&D team, it must be focused on their needs.

If they could have a set of mobile apps to help them

with their job, what would the top three be? How

challenging is it for the team to gather information to

analyze how engineering and R&D can contribute to

overall manufacturing operational excellence?

How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?

Identify the key goals that your manufac-turing engineering and R&D team wants to achieve with an investment in mobility. When planning for the implementation of a mobile app, consider what information and data they need to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the PHWULFV�DQG�UHVXOWV�WKDW�ZLOO�GHĆQH�VXFFHVV�IRU�\RXU�ĆUVW�PRELOH�DSS"�

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