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Plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration
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| Drive shop-to-enterprise integration
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Responsive, collaborative enterprises are meeting the challenges of today's automotive market pressures. IBM can help enable innovation to help you drive flexibility and efficiency with a repeatable, standards-based, proven plant automation solution. Integrate your enterprise and manufacturing processes with the plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration.
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| Improve operations by leveraging data
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The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration is one of the three component solution areas of the IBM Manufacturing Productivity Solutions portfolio, focusing on manufacturing engineering service controls and data integration. Shop-to-enterprise integration makes the applications and manufacturing data involved in advanced automotive product development available company wide. This plant automation solution provides four templates of skeleton plant floor function that can serve as starting points for improving enterprise-wide data integration.
This solution area evolves manufacturing processes so that information flows across the enterprise and supply chain in near real time, enabling:
- Improvements in time to market.
- Plant management decision making.
- Process and product quality.
- Cost efficiencies.
This plant automation solution provides a holistic view of the production process from material forecasting to shop floor execution with integrated information flows.
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| Businesses win by integrating their people, processes and information
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You are constantly striving to improve your automotive plant floor operations. The plant automation solution for automotive: shop-to-enterprise integration can help you reduce time to market, improve quality of production and reduce costs. By enabling plant automation, you can:
- Integrate the supply chain to shorten delivery cycles by improving logistics processes and enabling collaboration.
- Improve market share by providing the right product faster than competition.
- Modify processes to improve plant uptime and non-stop operations.
- Establish rapid deployment through use of common system solutions deployed globally.
- Improve performance analysis to optimize product quality.
- Provide early warning throughout the value chain, including visibility of plant floor issues.
- Improve order management by enabling build-to-order and build-to-demand to offer the right product when it is needed.
- Optimize processes through improved visualization and control.
- Reduce inventory costs through supply chain optimization.
- Reduce warranty costs by part traceability to identify responsibility.
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