IT/OT TRANSFORMATION FOR SMART MANUFACTURING

Smart Manufacturing gives plants the ability to achieve new levels of performance, control, agility, optimization, quality and safety. Nevertheless, the deployment is challenging in many dimensions:

• Complexity: many existing and upcoming (smart manufacturing) technology building blocks, platforms and vendors are involved, which demands a highly structured approach to deploy them.
• Comprehensive enterprise architecture: the target platform need to be deployed across the whole company and will define how systems connect, communicate and share data/information. Modern architectures need to be “Future Proof”, supporting the change from centralized to distributed / decentralized functions.
• Aligned with business strategy: this requires clear definition of business strategy and current business drivers, aligning the manufacturing transformation goals to this strategy.
• Clearly defined current/future modes of operation and roadmap: a clear definition, measurement and documentation of present state of digital technologies is needed, in order to design a desired future state and a roadmap to get there.
• Expert resources & knowledge: right expert resources and additional capacity to deploy, support and scale the transformation based on best practices and catalyze the right choices for your business.

A common failure of many product manufacturers trying to realize the benefits of “smart manufacturing” is lack of a proper IT/OT foundation on which smart manufacturing applications, such as production planning, supply chain management, production control & monitoring, etc. can be deployed.

We leverage end-to-end services to design, deploy and maintain the IT / OT technology foundation that helps companies achieve the full benefits of “smart manufacturing”.

• Operations first: Our business-centric transformation approach starts from manufacturing operations (as-is and to-be) to frame the design of the future IT/OT system, the selection of supporting technologies and appropriate roadmap.
• Proven end-to-end methodology: We manage our clients’ transformation roadmap as a fully structured program, taking responsibility of the program office and target IT/OT manufacturing design, integration and validation.
• Technology agnostic: End-to-end vendor agnostic integration that enables the selection and integration of IT/OT elements across a multitude of technologies & vendor solutions.