The development of technology is fast accelerating, creating new opportunities to optimize operations and productivity in factories. Many large operators have already moved to digitalized solutions, but small and medium sized companies still hold on to the thought that digitalization is often an expensive and time-consuming investment. Did you know that taking the jump to digitalized solutions doesn’t have to be a project that lasts years or a large one-time expense?
At Fliq, we’ve created a comprehensive Smart Factory platform that consists of different modules. With our platform, the digitalization of a factory can be done in an agile and cost-efficient way. The system helping a factory enhance its productivity can be integrated to use in even just a few days, without years of preparation, high fixed costs, or long contract periods. With the help of ready-made solutions, the platform helps save time and costs, making it possible to direct development resources to where they are needed.
In addition to optimizing productivity, creating a digitalized factory environment is also an important part of a company’s image and brand. Technology works as a great tool, but it shouldn’t be the absolute value that determines development. Technology serves the company’s long and short-term goals when productivity and a functioning work environment are at the core of developing. This is one of the reasons why we’ve created ready-made and easy, quickly deployable solutions for the needs of factories. Our solutions also comply with changing needs in the future. This way a development project can actually focus on solving productivity problems, instead of having planning of the project take away attention and resources from the value-providing core.
When it comes to optimizing a factory’s productivity, key points are enhancing the transparency of the manufacturing environment, sharing information more efficiently and enhancing communication. Real-time information can be shared about the status of the whole production process, for example about the status of a certain machine or production line, warehouse situation, orders waiting in line for production, and other resources. Real-time data management is at the core when moving from reactivity to proactive operations. The productivity of a factory is enhanced when all the data is available in one place for all interest groups to use. According to George Westerman and Didier Bonnet, the companies successful in digitization have managed to increase the productivity by an average of 26%.
When planning the digitalization of a company, it’s important to consider management of the whole production chain, all the way to the supplier interface. Managing the production chain more efficiently, resulting in for example faster lead times increase productivity and service ability. Productivity in the whole chain grows when data travels not only inside the factory but also to other interest groups involved. This also helps develop customer service, shorten delivery times and introducing for example new customer experience’s.
Due to the shortened cycle of technical development, it’s key to integrate new systems and interfaces into everyday use as fast as possible. The Digital Lean™ services developed by Fliq can be integrated into use in even just three days. Our services help make a productivity leap easy and quick, while helping develop a more positive work environment at the same time.
Lean methods were originally brought to fame by Toyota. They are methods that can be used to achieve quality, speed, and customer-oriented operations by introducing a continuous development framework. This helps save unnecessary work in the future and optimize using resources where they provide the most value to the process.
At the core of Fliq’s Digital Lean service are maintenance call service Digital Andon™, innovation tool Digital Kaizen™ and audit tool Digital 5S™. With these tools, it’s possible to monitor the performance and development of the factory floor in real time, collect, analyze, and control the implementation of new innovations and make sure that a continuing safe and productive work environment is achieved.
Ready-made products help getting started easy. New abilities can be implemented along the way according to the specific needs of each factory. The products also help gather data into a centralized place. This data can be utilized in the future to achieve goals related to a factory’s digitalization. Check out our Digital Lean services here.
Collecting data isn’t enough – it must also be utilized in the right way. Thus, companies succeeding in digitalization projects have one thing in common: they analyze and utilize collected data to enhance their processes.
Significant information can be created by refining and for example enriching data. This helps companies enhance their processes and productivity, ease organizing work and make the operations more competitive. In near future, collecting and utilizing data will be one of the most important cornerstones, giving a competitive edge to any factory. The earlier a company starts collecting data, the longer head start they can achieve compared to competitors.
We ignite inside when being able to create the simplest ways to bring relief and value into our customers’ everyday life: the easier a system works in day-to-day routines, the more likely it will root itself as a fixed part of a process.
Lack of information, unexpected events, and difficulty in forethought cause lack of productivity in many factories. Factory digitalization is not just a fancy modern development term: it offers a true possibility to enhance productivity and make a factory’s operations more fluent.
The architecture of our platform makes it possible for the system to comply with changing needs and further development in the future. We want to provide the most wanted solutions for factory digitalization using innovative, unprejudiced open interfaces that offer flexible possibilities for use.
We trust that with good service and real measurable outcomes our happy customers will continue to use our system to enhance the productivity of their factories. Thus, we don’t have a need to lock our customers with long contract periods. Our service is based on a SaaS system that works with a monthly payment. We make the leap to digital solutions easy with ready-made solutions! We are happy to give you a demo of our solutions. Just reach out to us!
