{"id":9498,"date":"2020-06-17T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.syspro.com\/blog\/what-is-smart-manufacturing-and-how-can-it-help-your-manufacturing-operations\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:51:03","slug":"what-is-smart-manufacturing-and-how-can-it-help-your-manufacturing-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.syspro.com\/blog\/erp-for-manufacturing\/what-is-smart-manufacturing-and-how-can-it-help-your-manufacturing-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Smart Manufacturing and How can it Help your Manufacturing Operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Answer agree or disagree to these two observations:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. The Coronavirus pandemic is going to change the way manufacturers operate.<\/li>\n
  2. After the pandemic is over, we won\u2019t be able to go back to doing things the way we used to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    If you responded Disagree to both points, you don\u2019t need to read any further.<\/strong> However, if either of these points made you think how you will need to change, then read on. There is an answer, it\u2019s not just a theory, and some companies have implemented it successfully. It\u2019s about using information better.<\/p>\n

    The tipping point of change<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    In 2002, Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s book The Tipping Point showed how some events can have a radical impact on society and act as the threshold to new views and ways of living and working. The Coronavirus pandemic has achieved just that in many ways. One has seen the sudden and huge adoption of working and communicating remotely. Applications like Zoom, which few people had heard of, have become a household word and technology. In many countries, there has been a significant growth in people using e-commerce. It\u2019s likely that many of your customers who had never bought online before, now accept it as usual business.<\/p>\n

    What people have learnt in the last few months through the use of technology is that distributed working practices have made businesses agile and resilient, while those still stuck in the old ways have suffered. For industries such as manufacturing, that have sought to concentrate their operations for reasons of scale, the pandemic has taught that the cost efficiencies of scale have to be balanced against the advantages of agility and resilience.<\/p>\n

    But manufacturers can take heart because there is a solution that will allow them to become more agile and resilient, and improve quality, equipment efficiency, reliability, and decision-making. It\u2019s the concept of Smart Manufacturing.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

    What is smart manufacturing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Smart manufacturing (SM) leverages recent advances in technology and infrastructure that really haven\u2019t been exploited by most manufacturers yet. Coined by the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), it is defined as :<\/p>\n

    \u201cSmart Manufacturing enables all information about the manufacturing process<\/strong> <\/a>to be available when it is needed, where it is needed, and in the form it is needed across the entire manufacturing value-chain to power smart decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

    SM integrates information from multiple applications and technologies that can be used to enable new solutions and better processes. It can be applied to a single machine line, an entire factory, or across a network of suppliers and customers.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s not just limited to big enterprises, organizations of any size can start on an SM journey. An SM operation includes some key factors:<\/p>\n