Everyday you are looking for ways to improve quality, increase productivity and reduce cost.
Do you know how you will get there?
A paperless manufacturing system is a strategic purchase that significantly improves yourmanufacturing operations, becoming your daily “eyes and ears” across the shop floor. You are
able to make rapid decisions about the production process flow and avoid quality mistakes,
scrap and rework. In short, it becomes an essential element in planning and execution and you
will depend on it to deliver the corporate goals for the year.
There are many daily challenges that drive a company to consider a paperless system. Global
sourcing and increasing demands on cost reduction will focus you on:
- Inefficient and error-prone manual processes
- Ineffective QA processes
- Too much non-productive “walk around time”
- Lack of shop floor visibility for lean initiatives
- Insufficient process detail from the ERP system
Your partner should be able to deliver the following advantages to your organization with the
- Implementation of a paperless system:
- Significantly reduced operating costs,
- Improved margins,
- Improved productivity
- Increased quality and efficiency
- Reduced response time from engineering to the shop floor
- Accurate work history
- Reliable capture of production documentation
- Increased visibility of the shop floor
Once you realize the benefits that paperless or even paper-light manufacturing will bring, how
should you proceed to buy the right tools for the job? Over the next few pages you will learn 10
Steps to choosing a Paperless Manufacturing System that will make sure you get exactly what
you need and exactly what will work. These steps include:
- Investigate current processes
- Create a vision of future shop floor operations
- Build a functional specification
- Right-engineer the requirements
- Fit the implementation to your business model
- Ensure the system will evolve with business changes
- Create a risk management plan with lower risk
- Establish a “say it, do it, on time, within budget” project
- Deliver the Return-On-Investment (ROI)
- Ensure superior support
Whether your intentions are to upgrade to a paperless process or to replace an existing system,
both require an extensive amount of planning and risk management. An important first step
when beginning the planning involves working with a partner who understands your current
process and is willing to help define the future. The total key to success in the process requires
a partner who can quickly define and deliver a solution while maintaining the target ROI.
One way to assess a partner company is to investigate their past performance in customer
service. Do they deliver on their promises? Is there a simple way the system can evolve to
match your company changes and future processes? Can the system deliver the expected
ROI?
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