Paper-based processes: Efficiency killers in production
International competitive pressure, cost pressure, a shortage of skilled workers and increasing demands from customers or regulations are constantly interfering with the corporate value creation process.
Especially in production processes such as maintenance, assembly, quality inspection, etc., these rapidly increasing challenges must be mastered. Despite all the difficulties, your operational employees ensure added value for your company day after day.
The status quo in production
While industrial companies have already understood
that digitalization can help them meet the high demands, production employees continue to work with paper-based work instructions and checklists. The status quo in production is often as follows:
Too much paper in production
High manual effort
No standardized process knowledge
The problems through paper-based checklists
Whether in assembly, machine maintenance, quality inspection, incoming and outgoing goods inspections or audits:
Checklists pursue the goal of checking standards such as product quality, process conformity or machine conditions. In the paper-based version, however, these inflexible documents generate a large number of operational problems and become real effort drivers.
Checklists are often not used on their own, but require additional reference documents such as test instructions to illustrate test procedures or similar. However, more documents mean more interpretation and comparison work for your employees and do not allow them to work efficiently.
Another disadvantage often lies in the immense manual transfer effort involved when results documented on the checklist have to be entered manually into ERP systems or analysis software in order to make the data available digitally.
Analog problems solved digitally
Paper-based processes have a number of costly consequences that manifest themselves in practice as follows:
Our employees' time is precious. They shouldn't have to use it searching through documents.
Project Engineer Process Excellence, KraussMaffei
All of this prevents manufacturing companies from establishing more efficient and high-performance production processes to increase company growth.
The good news: digital checklists can be used to digitize employee-led activities and provide more comprehensible information as a real game changer in production.
The interactive checklist 4.0...
...revolutionizes the way we work in production:
Unnecessary interpretation and comparison efforts due to paper-based document chaos from checklists and reference documents are a thing of the past.
Thanks to digital checklists, your employees can now record results and findings directly via interactive input, sensor integration or integrated image and video recording.
This gives you a clear picture of the actual incidents and conditions in production and you can use these findings to initiate improvement measures much more quickly.
The Operations1 software is so easy to understand that it can be used by employees within 10 minutes training.
Head of Assembly Line, Krones
A field-proven software
Operations1 not only helps to reduce non-value-adding activities in production, but also supports companies in saving costs and unlocking previously tied-up time resources so that they can be used to create value for more growth.
Always adding value - as a stand-alone solution or connected
Thanks to our integration solutions such as REST API, Operations1 can be connected to leading systems such as ERP, ME etc. on request. This allows you to exploit the full potential of your system landscape and your available order and process data.
Well advised and supported by our product experts
Take advantage of our team's years of experience and get in touch with our product experts:
Discussion of your use case
Analysis of existing problems in your process
Presentation of solution options with the Operations1 software
The team conducted an analysis of our current situation and found exactly the right answers.
Global CIO, Zünd Systemtechnik
With Operations1 we have found an innovative partner that provides a strong software.
Head of IT Business Services, Hirschvogel Automotive Group
Get into conversation with us
Use the exchange with our product experts to find out how you can benefit specifically from Operations1.