5 Ways Smart Manufacturing Solutions Help Your Business

According to a study on the Smart Manufacturing Market by Mordor Intelligence, the world’s Smart Manufacturing Market, which was valued at USD 172.60 billion in 2020, is expected to reach USD 236.12 billion by 2026. The study further says that the pandemic has forced small, medium, and large manufacturers to replace traditional practices with digital transformation and smart and agile manufacturing practices. One of the most adopted software for smart manufacturing is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). An MES is software that optimizes the manufacturing process by monitoring, tracking, and documenting the entire production lifecycle from raw material to finished goods. It ensures better quality control and higher production performance while reducing inventory and costs. A high-quality smart manufacturing software, such as our Mobivue manufacturing operations management solution, provides real-time visibility and traceability, is integrated, and should provide end-to-end support.

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Let’s see how Mobivue's manufacturing operations management solution helps in smart manufacturing:

1. Effective Tracking of 4Ms

A smart manufacturing solution allows you to complete traceability of the production process: manpower, method, machine, and materials. It helps you keep a constant track of how each of these vital components of the manufacturing process is functioning at any given point in time. The Mobivue manufacturing operations management solution comes equipped with the ability to send you an alert in real-time if any of these four pillars are not operating as they are supposed to, enabling you to take swift action and optimize your manufacturing process. It also minimizes the substantial human effort it takes to monitor all the components in a complex manufacturing process and gives you accurate information around the clock.

2. Streamlined Shop Floor Operations

Manufacturing is a complex process where numerous people and machines work in tandem continuously. Implementing an MES, such as our Mobivue manufacturing operations management solution, ensures that all the processes and movements across your shop floor are carried out smoothly and seamlessly, boosting production performance substantially. With automated material and line mapping, bin replenishment processes, and picking of raw or semi-finished material from the store to its movement across the production line, a good manufacturing operations solution takes care of all the trivial and vital activities alike with surprising precision.

3. Better Quality Assurance

Implementing any smart manufacturing solution in your manufacturing plant will have a positive effect on quality, as your processes and workflows are optimized to a great degree. A good manufacturing solution will also carry out multiple levels at different stages of the production process, which boosts product quality even more. In the mobiVUE manufacturing operations management solution, for example, there are three levels of quality inspection. The physical, machine vision, and machine-led inspections are carried out at different stages during the product life cycle, keeping a thorough check at each stage. The first inspection is carried out before production, the second stage is in-line, and the last one is the final product inspection. These three levels of stringent quality checks ensure that the final products that will reach your customer are completely defect-free.

4. Easy Integration

Any high-quality smart manufacturing solution is designed to support the latest technologies along with the flexibility to function on multiple operating systems and platforms. It can be easily integrated with a wide range of AIDC machines, including CNC machines, SMT machines, weighing scales, and other equipment, which will enable you to monitor and optimize all components of your manufacturing unit. It should also be easy to seamlessly integrate with your existing ERP, enabling the real-time exchange of data between the operational layer and the information layer, thereby providing greater visibility for better business decision-making, high efficiency, and unmatched accuracy.

5. Improved Traceability

A good, smart manufacturing solution will allow you to achieve 100% component-level traceability in manufacturing processes. The complexities involved in electronics manufacturing traceability are reasonably large and characterized by factors such as short product life cycles, miniaturization, and the use of multiple machine-driven technologies, making it extremely difficult to track errors during production. Quality assurance, therefore, becomes an intrinsic need requiring validation at every stage of manufacturing. Our Mobivue manufacturing operations management solution recently helped an OEM giant achieve 100% traceability in PCB manufacturing. Deploying our solution helped them integrate data from all their machines, automate manufacturing rules, and maximize their production efficiency. If you want to discuss how our Mobivue manufacturing operations management can help you improve your efficiency and quality while reducing costs, feel free to get in touch with us. We would be happy to run a detailed study of your existing processes and explain how our Mobivue manufacturing operations management solution can solve your specific problems. You can read more at https://www.barcodeindia.com/solution/manufacturing-operations-management-discrete. If you want to know more about 5 Ways Smart Manufacturing Solutions Help Your Business, go through the case studies here.