91% of supply chain leaders with smart manufacturing solutions focus on digitizing their manufacturing operations. However, they struggle with two key challenges while implementing a smart manufacturing strategy:
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Regardless of approach, a clearly defined path to managing a pipeline of innovation projects, unleashing them across multiple sites and using its benefits to continue that pipeline, is required.
Bimodal is a practice that describes two separate but coherent ways of working that are required for manufacturing operations to build, scale and succeed with new capabilities. When executed well, both modes are inextricably tied to scale; which is repeatable performance that allows companies to move faster and deliver the value of smart manufacturing.
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A manufacturer is a producer of branded or unbranded finished products. A manufacturer could be a contract manufacturer, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) or both.
Manufacturing planning refers to the weekly or daily production and machine schedules across multiple plants or lines to meet orders and forecast demand. Some manufacturing planning modules also incorporate materials planning.
Smart manufacturing is the notion of orchestrating physical and digital processes within factories and across other supply chain functions to optimize current and future supply and demand requirements. This is accomplished by transforming and improving ways in which people, process and technology operate to deliver the critical information needed to impact decision quality, efficiency, cost and agility.
Discrete manufacturing is the production of a discrete category of goods (e.g., automobiles, aircraft, computers or component assemblies).
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