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Plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration
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| Time. Quality. Cost.
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The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration makes the applications and manufacturing data involved in advanced automotive product development available company wide. This can help you enhance innovation and product quality. Improve productivity and drive efficiency and time to market through plant automation.
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| Why IBM?
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The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration is built on years of automotive experience. A team of IBM auto industry experts can help you design and implement a successful framework for plant automation to help increase efficiencies and time to market while reducing costs.
- Leadership in driving automotive standards within Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi), Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association (JAMA), and others around the globe.
- With over 25 years of automotive industry experience, IBM is uniquely qualified to evaluate your business objectives and advise you on how to improve your competitive advantage.
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| Extend production information across your enterprise
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Business integration is more than systems integration, and its benefits are realized well beyond the IT department. Business integration solves problems across the organization from connecting with partners, to improving the efficiency of your supply chain, to increasing customer loyalty.
The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration enables:
- Improved time to market
- Optimize sequences in build-to-order lines and create a lean environment.
- Minimize effects of product design changes.
- Reuse and standardize best practices.
- Improve interoperability and flexibility.
- Help reduce the cost and time of building and integrating new and existing applications.
- Enhanced product quality and customer loyalty
- Extend customer services to develop and maintain a marketplace niche.
- Provide customized consistent and timely business information.
- Integrate and optimize the use of people and their tools in processes.
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| Business scenario templates
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The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration provides four templates, each based on actual customer engagements. These templates have been built around the following high-priority business scenarios.
- Error proofing—WIP and As-Built information is recorded as well as quality data is collected at a workstation where seat belts are being torqued, all of which is sent to a quality tracking system.
- Inventory management—inventory is updated and tracked using RFID technology as the factory communicates with seat suppliers to make sure correct seats are delivered to the assembly station in proper order.
- Asset performance management—torque values are drifting toward boundaries and a maintenance engineer is dispatched to fix the torque gun before it becomes a problem.
- Line sequencing—master sequence for next five days is communicated to manufacturing engineering service and suppliers. A defect in a wiring harness causes certain vehicles to be pulled out of the line and the line to be re-sequenced. Final assembly line sequence is communicated as each vehicle enters the line.
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| Optimize your cost advantage
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The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration can help enhance your core business functions by making manufacturing processes and data available company wide, thereby increasing efficiencies and improving your return on investment. With this plant automation solution, your automotive manufacturing company can help reduce costs by optimizing core processes.
- Automate, integrate and coordinate operations end to end.
- Increase collaboration across functional areas.
- Integrate data across the enterprise.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM automotive specialist.
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