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Technology and Digitalisation
Using technology to advance your business.
We create the systems to deliver operational excellence. We take an organisation’s paper models, SOPs, or Excel spreadsheets and transfer them to a digital system that is accessible via Smart handheld devices and can link to a live ERP system. This is also an incremental step towards Industry 4.0 implementation. The industrial workplace is changing at a greatly accelerated pace and in a multitude of ways
Digital Systems
Smart Apps
Industry 4.0
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
We provide manufacturers with a platform and Smart Apps to compliment their manufacturing excellence journey. This is to ensure habits are developed and reinforced and that staff are deployed into arears with the biggest challenges but the most impact to be achieved. We work closely with your teams to develop ‘digital twins’, sensors, platforms and Smart apps to support the productivity improvement needs on the lines.
The habit forming created by the use of technology helps embed new behaviours and reinforce cultural changes.
| DIGITALISATION SYSTEMS AVAILABLE | ADVANTAGES OF APPS & DIGITALISATION SYSTEMS |
|---|---|
| Data Capture | Captures & analyses data directly from machines |
| Balanced Score Card (BSC) | Accelerated way to automate BSC |
| Total Preventative Maintenance (TPM) | Reduces unplanned maintenance, system failures & down-time |
| Quality Adherence & Data recording | Helps overcome quality challenges |
| T-Card System | Keeping track of manufacturing workflow data |
| Lean Assessment | Audits lean practices |
| Personal development platform for employees | Online platform to help employees track development |
| New Product Devt platform | New product development platform |
| ERP Systems | All-in-one management software |
| JDI App | JDI provides an easy way to identify local issues |
The digitalisation of processes in industry to create efficiencies, improve quality, save time and reduce cost is what is driving Industry 4.0 and the fourth industrial revolution.
We appreciate the benefits of Smart technology and telephone Apps in our daily lives and these new digital technologies are being adapted for industrial settings where there is continuous demand to improve quality, increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Using digital processes allows the manufacturing of products in a more flexible, energy-efficient, resource-saving, individualised and inexpensive manner.
ILS supports this transformation towards connected production through the development of tailored digital Smart Apps and Lean systems to meet companies’ individual continuous improvement needs and supporting skills mismatches.
Companies can now create their own Smart Apps that link to data collection sensors and software systems that will analyse information in meaningful ways specifically for them.
To fully integrate Industry 4.0, companies can invest in wireless communication and networks, utilise unlimited Cloud server storage, deploy robotics, invest in handheld electronic devices and 'big data' analytics, etc. All these technologies have the potential to transform the way goods are manufactured in the UK. This new, digital industrial revolution is attractive because it promises increased flexibility in manufacturing, mass customisation, increased speed and improved quality and productivity.
SMART APPS
ILS help companies create tailored Smart Apps and Smart systems that allow affordable investment in the benefits of digitalisation, one App at a time. This means companies do not have to adopt full system changeovers – they can achieve incremental benefits in a cost-efficient way that can also link to existing ERP systems.
Book your free, no-obligation, Industry 4.0 Review with us today! Email [email protected]
Some examples of the solutions we can help to deliver:
| PROBLEM | OUR SOLUTION |
|---|---|
| Accurate and effective Data control for quick decision making and to inform production | Data Capture automation to collect and analyse machine data |
| Maintaining focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) & quality | A Balanced Score Card system to record data and track quality adherence |
| Effective asset management | Cloud CMMS to help reduce unplanned maintenance |
| People development | Learning management platform to support employees with their personal development |
| Quick resolution activity for problem solving as teams | Just Do It (JDI) control system to identify and resolve issues at a local level |
| Supervisor Training relevant to managing production, continuous improvement & resources | Leadership 4.0 - operational excellence training for developing managers linked to Industry 4.0 |
| Health and safety controls | Safety point system for H&S rigour |
Our systems are designed to improve performance and to help by managers and teams collect detailed and speedy data about different production processes, personnel information and OEE targets. We offer a helicopter view of your business and the this allows you to focus on the areas for improvement and make decisions accordingly.
All Apps and software can be designed to meet individual company productivity needs.
INDUSTRY 4.0
The application of Industrial Digital Technologies (IDTs) can bring significant enhancements to performance and productivity to the manufacturing sector. Industrial digitisation is the application of digital tools and technologies to the value chains of businesses who make things (eg aerospace, automotive and defence, nuclear, construction, food & drink, etc).
This move towards new forms of data control, artificial intelligence, cyber security and digitalisation are all pushing businesses towards Industry 4.0 - described as the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution’.
The investment in Industrial Digitalisation Technologies can lead to improved productivity and controls, a much safer work environment and improved satisfaction through the advances in team connectivity and replacement of repetitive tasks. And Covid appears to have moved industry closer to creating value through the smart use of IDTs - and in the post-Covid future, which hopefully will not be too long away, employees may increasingly be hired for knowledge-based production roles, rather than manual work.
Some of the challenges that companies face in the current landscape, post Brexit and recovering from Covid include:
Adapting to new technologies or production strategies in the manufacturing industry can be difficult, but once done the whole process of manufacturing takes a shift. This shift results in increased production, greater operations management and improved preventive maintenance etc. Some of the benefits of Industrial Digital Technologies include:
Individualisation of customer requirements with Industry 4.0 software (Customisation) as it gives flexibility and adaptability of manufacturing processes
When the customer’s needs are met and issues are solved in a shorter lead time, new lead generation and opportunities arise.
When it comes to on-going cost reduction, sometimes insisted by customers, implementing a wide range of Industry 4.0 applications and software solutions will lead to increased productivity, reduction in cost, improved labour productivity, increased asset utilisation and reduction in operating costs.
All these help SMEs to maintain profitability and job security in these uncertain times.
Financial instability is another challenge for many, however with cloud integrated solutions provided by Industry 4.0, it’s easy and cost effective to implement within organisations.
Software can be created to address specific and bespoke challenges faced in manufacturing processes.
Connectivity can facilitate new and hybrid ways of working as employee data control platforms mean you can easily keep in touch and track employee output even if remote working.
To discuss making ‘baby-steps’ towards Industry 4.0 in your factory then contact us today at [email protected].
Digital Roadmap
To download a copy of the 2021 Digitalisation Roadmap click here.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM ILS
To achieve greater factory control and efficiency we can help you to address key issues through your people development, introduction of smart systems and use of leading-edge digital technologies that can deliver efficiencies and create the greatest business returns.
To capture the benefits of industrial digitalisation fully, enterprises need to invest in equipment, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and data analysis as well as the integration of data flows throughout their global value chain. However, with the expertise provided by ILS, this bigger journey can be taken in affordable, small steps.
To discuss how our services could help your business become more productive, email us at [email protected] for further details or to request a free, no obligation review with our technical expert.