Accelerating Operational Excellence in 2015: Create a Paperless Plant with Real-Time Data

Addressing operations challenges with technology Catavolt launched a survey titled “How Leading Manufacturers are Accelerating Operational Excellence” in September 2014, to gain insight on how manufacturing organizations are working to continuously improve their operations, workflows and business processes.

We collected 111 responses from manufacturing professionals in various disciplines on trends and technology that are driving operational excellence. Increased competition in the market, meeting customer expectations, rapidly changing plant floor conditions, and the need to increase revenue, is pushing manufacturing organizations across all industries towards more efficient operational processes.

Manufacturing organizations are increasing operational excellence investments in 2015

•  Manufacturing organizations are challenged with producing high quality products and goods, and keeping internal costs low to contend in a global market.

•  By relying on paper-based processes that are prone to human error, manufacturing teams must deal with cumbersome processes that lead to wasteful spending.

•  By going paperless with real-time data, manufacturing organizations are seeing a reduction in IT expenses, and an increase in staff productivity.

15% of a manufacturing organization’s revenue is spent

creating, managing, and distributing paper

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Accessing real-time data at the right time

Real-time control of information empowers manufacturing teams to streamline production and ensure products, tools, and goods are produced in accordance with strict regulatory guidelines and customer demands.

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What does accessing real-time data with paperless processes mean for your team?

• Reduce data entry time and human errors

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Access to real-time data means fewer human errors, and less time and money spent on paper-based processes. When your manufacturing teams can access real-time data on a mobile phone, tablet, or laptop, they can easily make decisions based on the latest information that is critical to operations. These teams now spend less time searching for data, writing, and printing, which FDQ�OHDG�WR�LQćDWHG�FRVWV��OHDG�WLPHV��DQG inventory levels.

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Access to real-time data drives organizational collaboration and communication.

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Real-time data delivery technology for manufacturing helps organizations streamline operations and improve workforce optimization

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