Work Instruction 4.0

How to increase productivity in your production with digital work instructions

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.

Value creation pyramid with a focus on processes and people

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 work instructions

Work instructions created in Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. and printed out on paper prove to be very inflexible in practice. This combination of MS Office and paper-based processes leads to a number of operational problems and disadvantages:

Our employees' time is precious. They shouldn't have to use it searching through documents.
Claudio Sutter 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 work instructions can be used to digitize employee-led activities and provide more comprehensible information as a real game changer in production.

Digital work instructions...

... are characterized by the fact that work steps are simply displayed using images and videos and interactive elements such as mandatory interactions guide the employee safely through the process.

Workers who carry out their activities using digital work instructions report enormous simplifications and increased safety in process execution and appreciate the ease of use of the multilingual software.

Software to eliminate Paper in any inspection, check process or SOP

The Operations1 software is so easy to understand that it can be used by employees within 10 minutes training.
Walter Wittmann 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.