Critical Manufacturing MES for Automotive
Much like Aerospace & Defense, the Automotive industry has strong governmental oversight for both safety and Good Manufacturing Practices. The industry is also changing: there is consolidation, plant closures, and underutilization of existing lines. A shift in buyer preference drives a ripple effect in the automotive industry—with some plants experiencing capacity issues, others changing their mix to keep production flowing. Automotive manufacturers at all levels are under constant pressure due to shrinking margins and the need to implement new innovations rapidly at low cost with high quality.
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Industry 4.0 is affecting automotive manufacturing more dramatically: the electrification, the autonomy, and the connectedness of the automobile are setting the pace for a new way of looking at manufacturing and sourcing.
Key Challenges of Industry 4.0 for Automotive addressed by Critical Manufacturing:
 | Implement real-time inventory management |
| Enforce good manufacturing practices and product traceability to minimize product quality and recall issues |
| Establish a global view of the supply chain |
| Address regional Quality & Regulatory compliance in export-driven markets |
| Eliminate paper-driven manufacturing operations, removing labor intensive, slow response practices |
| Minimize the reliance on legacy & outdated systems to reduce maintenance and unplanned downtime |
| Support digital transformation allowing manufacture of highly customized products with shorter delivery times |
Key Capabilities of Critical Manufacturing MES for Industry 4.0 /Automotive
| Provides a dynamic 3D visualization (‘digital twin’) of the shop floor |
| Scales easily with growing operational needs |
| Drives visibility of production and costs across the supply chain for better decision making |
| Enables IoT-enabled production marketplace for smart factories |
| Allows users to quickly learn and do their job from any location, even with mobile devices |
| Analyzes, tracks, and executes continuous improvement |
| Enables efficient manufacture of personalized, mass customized and low volume products faster, more reliably, at higher quality and lower cost |
| Advanced analytics allow predictive measures in the face of shifting business realities |
| Real-time visibility and control of production processes, even across partner or remote sites |
| Reduced equipment and IoT device automation effort with a single view of all automation workflows, with one click deployment |
| Horizontal integration provides better synchronization for a smart supply chain |
| Vertically integrates IoT and shop floor with enterprise-wide information flows |
