A good production strategy through Manufacturing 4.0 has become essential for business competitiveness and preservation. In a globalized and fast-developing world, failing to pay attention to the best productive format, combining technology and management, can mean the end of the company.
Therefore, it is necessary to be in constant evolution so that your industry enters – and remains in – the era of manufacturing 4.0. In this article, we will talk about production strategies and how to adopt the most assertive one in your company’s routine. Check it out below.
Lean Manufacturing in Manufacturing 4.0
Surely you have heard of Lean Manufacturing and perhaps your company even adopts it. This philosophy proposes a cultural shift aimed at continuous process improvement, waste reduction, and quality deliveries. It is a proposal that seeks constant evolution and serves as important support for defining the ideal production strategy.
In Manufacturing 4.0, the differential is that this philosophy is not only applied to management, but also taken into account when adopting digital transformation solutions. Therefore, if Lean is already part of your industry’s processes, it will be easier to include operating systems to expand productivity and continuous improvement. In this case, there will already be a clearer process mapping within a culture focused on efficiency.
This is an important and fundamental investment in the pursuit of your assertive production strategy: combining technology with operations will guarantee process automation for the factory in order to reduce delivery times without giving up production quality.
Technology aims to ensure even greater safety in process routines and certainty in the application of data for growth-friendly decision-making. After all, assertiveness is directly linked to the correct analysis of past actions, based on solid, easily accessible data.
Mapping processes for ideal production
A factory’s particularities may be linked to what it produces, its location, or even its routine relationship with suppliers and markets. Making production efficient means understanding each of these aspects.
Therefore, within Manufacturing 4.0, defining the best productive process is tied to information analysis. Here we highlight the advantages of this medium and long-term analysis:
- Error detection: the earlier inconsistencies in the production process are detected, the sooner productivity can be corrected. This involves structural issues, such as the layout of the production line itself, which with adjustments can reduce the time between one process and another. It also includes issues related to the distribution of inputs, downtime for preventive maintenance, and other factors. Finding the ideal model through technology for data collection and management is the most efficient way to act in this regard.
- Continuous adjustments: as the Lean methodology preaches, improvement must be continuous, which is quite common in the Manufacturing 4.0 era. This is another advantage for increasing productivity and consequent market competitiveness.
- Scenario anticipation: in 2020, the whole world found itself immersed in a global crisis due to a pandemic. The scenario may be uncertain, but anticipating actions through production data analysis and making adjustments through digital transformation solutions will give industries already adept at Manufacturing 4.0 an advantage in maintaining and resuming activities. When the economy rebounds, those who are best prepared and have an adequate production routine to support high order volumes will grow with it.
- Efficient deliveries: the more agile production is, the more requested the industry will be by its clients. Every company looks for suppliers that are reliable and respect deadlines to ensure productive continuity. When management uses data through a Manufacturing system, it becomes more articulate across various points for adjustments needed in the production strategy.
Solutions to enter the Manufacturing 4.0 era
As we highlighted above, there is no way to define an ideal production strategy without combining management and technology. Industries in the 4.0 era are already a reality worldwide and drive a strong pace of competitiveness and growth. Keeping up with the new market and maintaining oneself in this scenario depends on investments in solutions focused on your market needs.
In this landscape, systems emerge that encompass specific features for industry optimization, empowering both production planning and execution. This is the case with Delmia Ortems, developed by the French global industry technology leader, Dassault Systèmes, and marketed in Latin America by Teclógica. To give you an idea, with this solution, a factory can plan an entire year of production work in 30 minutes.
Another important tool for efficient operational management is an MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) platform, such as Delmia Apriso. With it, all production is managed in a single environment, which guarantees visibility over processes and production traceability. This type of technology consolidates the process, ensuring the implementation of best practices on the factory floor.
To learn more about these types of technologies and the applicability of production management solutions to your business, talk to our specialists and secure the best production strategy for your company.
Signed by: Aloisio Arbegaus – Commercial Director at Teclógica
