Transforming manufacturing with modern data and AI solutions
On this page, we'll cover important areas in manufacturing such as growing revenue, meeting evolving customer expectations, and creating the right organizational culture for change.
Plus, we explain how the principle of thinking big but acting smart with your IT projects can lead to tangible outcomes. There’s a lot of excitement around data and AI right now. By tying all your data and AI efforts back to business outcomes, you can keep expectations realistic and make sure your AI pilots get off the ground. Drawing from our experience across thousands of projects, we’re here to guide you through these challenges and help you implement strategies that deliver real, impactful results.
So, let’s get started.
Every manufacturer wants to be more cost-effective without sacrificing the quality or quantity of their products. While it may be tempting to reduce expenses by downsizing staff or avoiding investments in new technology, these approaches can hurt team morale, stifle innovation, and let competitors gain an advantage. Instead, the focus should be on achieving cost efficiency rather than just cutting costs. Let's look into practical examples and strategies to better understand how to achieve this.
It's easy to get swept up in the excitement and hype surrounding data and AI. Before you know it, you've lost sight of your initial objectives and are stuck in "pilot purgatory," where your AI projects start but never truly take off. How can you avoid this? Begin by clearly defining your objectives. Focus on the results you desire and identify applications that will help you achieve those goals, creating immediate value. Next, identify areas within your business that are ready for AI integration to secure early wins, ensuring each activity is linked to tangible business outcomes.
Find out more strategies for successfully integrating AI and ML into your business in our resources below.
We're a global digital advisor and IT consulting company that delivers industry expertise along with comprehensive business-critical services and solutions. Our offerings include cloud ERP, data & AI, customer experience and engagement, digital commerce, and security.
We help businesses develop end-to-end transformation strategies that connect people, processes, and technology, enabling them to execute their digitalization plans and realize the full potential of their technology investments. Manufacturing is one of our key areas of expertise. With a deep understanding of both process and discrete manufacturing, we also extend our services to the retail and distribution sectors.
From engineering and shop floor to on-site distribution and after-sales services, we can help you enhance supply chain management, improve efficiency, streamline operations, reduce overheads, and exceed customer expectations. We support you at every step of your transformation journey, ensuring a smooth transition for your employees while maximizing your value chain to lay the groundwork for future success.
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Create and deliver personalized experiences that consistently engage and delight your customers.
Gain a deeper understanding of your customers, from the content they're looking for and the right time to reach out to their previous interactions with your company | |
Create end-to-end customer journeys based on individual customer-triggered activities | |
Run A/B and multivariant tests to optimize content for your customers and ensure marketing KPIs are aligned with business goals |
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We can help you streamline the cost of managing product data, minimize errors in production, reduce waste when making design changes and control the introduction of new products.
Centralize product data and ensure it’s accurate and available to users across your organization | |
Enable your teams to request changes to products and use engineering change orders to assess and document the impact of proposed changes. Also, add workflows to manage the engineering change and process and release of new versions of a product | |
Manage the visibility of product data across your business and control the availability of product versions at each stage of the supply chain |
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Transform your data into valuable insights to drive significant improvements across your operations, customer and employee relationships, and ensure profits.
Adopt a robust data and analytics strategy and steer your manufacturing organization towards a data-driven culture | |
Improve data visibility to enable your leaders to make effective data-driven decisions | |
Build scalable, future-proof data platforms customized to address your present and future needs |
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Gain a consistent, efficient way to assess and record quality metrics in your operations to drive process and quality improvements.
Analyze your productivity and efficiency through analytics, IoT and AI and use that knowledge to streamline your overall processes | |
Drive continuous improvement across your products, processes and systems to accelerate growth | |
Benefit from higher quality products by introducing improved operational controls and quality assurance both during and after production, which also results in happier customers |
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Gain access to modern technologies that can centralize your processes and help form the basis for a smart, connected factory.
Unlock real-time insight into data, helping you monitor machines and resolve any issues remotely | |
Use additional insights into performance, usage and machine lifecycle stage to provide value-added services such as proactive support or ongoing monitoring | |
Ensure 24-hour continuous uptime and minimize the chance of disruptions to production |
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Streamline your production process to enable smoother production flow, increased speed to market and enhanced productivity.
Effectively track and control physical inventory, unlocking insights on purchases, stock maintenance and order fulfillment | |
Build agile manufacturing processes using AI, IoT and mixed reality and open doors for more improvements in the way you work | |
Unify your data to make better informed decisions and create accurate schedules, forecasts and budgets |
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Connect your sales and operations plans so you can increase transparency across your organization, balance supply and demand and achieve profitability.
Make it easier to relay up-to-date information and take informed decisions about a product’s supply demand | |
Gain an accurate view of exactly what volumes are in inventory, production or in transit, at any point in time | |
Make better decisions about products, provide accurate data on product performance and improved forecasting data. This also helps you remain flexible enough to adapt to ever-changing demand |
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Gather the right data so you can boost production from your assets, cut costs and improve your bottom line.
Gain a detailed view of how your assets are performing and when the best time is to perform maintenance so they can keep running at full capacity for as long as possible | |
Automate error prone and time consuming tasks to streamline your maintenance processes | |
Centralize all your critical data into one place and enable your employees to access it instantly from any location |
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With sustainability top of mind in the manufacturing industry, we can help support your organization’s sustainability efforts.
Effectively manage inventories and expiry dates through tracking and automation to eliminate the chances of human error and ensure you get the most out of your stock | |
Integrate all your operations to better evaluate sales history and create reliable forecasts, helping you plan purchasing accurately and minimize waste through unsold products | |
Gain full visibility into your raw materials, enabling you to find and fix inefficiencies in ingredient management and sales forecasting | |
Optimize resources in the supply chain to lower idle time and transport capacity | |
Register and analyze resource consumption to target improvement efforts efficiently |
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