Hurdles to operational excellence

With operational excellence (OPEX), manufacturing companies pursue the goal of continuously increasing their efficiency, quality and flexibility in order to compete successfully in the global market. This requires lean, robust and transparent processes.

Hurldes for achieving OPEX

Technological challenges

  • Unstable and complex system consisting of ERP, MS Office products and paper

  • Low transparency and speed for CIP due to digitalization gaps

  • No standard software for document management, employee training and execution of activities

Complex system landscape with media and system disruptions
  • Process knowledge is in the heads of employees and flows out when employees leave the company

  • Knowledge is not standardized and cannot be accessed centrally and uniformly

  • Slow training process and inefficient execution of tasks

  • Employee feedback for the CIP is not recorded uniformly

Master-pupil principle with disadvantages

Increasing requirements

Customers, partners and auditors are placing increasing individualization demands on manufacturing companies in terms of products, process documentation and the provision of evidence. This increasing degree of individualization results in:

  • More complex information in processes due to increasing number of variants

  • Increased complexity for employees in variant-specific activities

  • Increased documentation, archiving and research costs

High complexity based on order-information and maximul checklists

Simplify your IT landscape

Bundling document management and the execution of employee-led activities in a single software enables the introduction of process standards, closes digitization gaps and creates comprehensive process transparency for your CIP.

  • Reduced effort and centralized 
document management

  • Process execution in one software

  • Accelerated CIP process through 
process digitization

System landscape without media and system breaks

Empower your employees in production

By combining your knowledge management and process execution in one software, you can realize the following potential for improvement:

  • Securing and standardizing your employees' knowledge in digital work instructions

  • Quick training of employees and efficient execution of activities

  • Increase employee flexibility and satisfaction through step-by-step instructions that make 
work easier

Digital step-by-step work instruction

Complexity under control with reduced effort

By using variant-specific quality inspection protocols, we reduce interpretation efforts for our employees.

Walter Wittmann Head of Assembly Line, Krones
  • Order-specific work information 
through modularity in software

  • Reduced complexity for your 
employees thanks to variant-specific work instructions

  • Effort reduction through documentation directly in the digital checklist

  • Increased verifiability through digital reports

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