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| White Paper - Executive Summary |
The route to a Factory Information System
… and what it delivers
One of the main challenges in manufacturing today is about bringing the key information to the people who need it so they can act on it.
Manufacturing is generally littered with fragmented islands of information, hindering effectiveness. Yet moving from that situation is daunting given the legacy situation most manufacturing companies are in, and the sheer scale of the problem.
Shopfloor-Online offers an incremental route to a joined-up future. Typically purchased as the solution to a point departmental need, it can grow to become an invaluable factory information system. It lays the foundation for future expansion to absorb other departmental manufacturing requirements, e.g. taking over legacy or bespoke applications; or, interfacing to such systems where they still have value.
When this happens the deployment cost is considerably lower than starting with a separate application, the cost of ownership diminishes and more fundamentally the value of the information contained is enhanced because each area adds value to the other. This process can continue in a structured, well managed way over the life cycle of the existing solutions. It is an affordable way to an integrated system.
The key is that in any departmental area Shopfloor-Online has the capability to address the point needs. In this respect there is additional reading material that looks at the various areas in more detail.
From an IT perspective, the approach is very attractive. It conforms to the usual corporate IT requirements in terms of servers, operating systems, databases, and networks. IT has fewer applications to support, making better use of support resources.
All the data is held in a mainstream database making it easy to manage. And fundamentally deployment is easy being a browser based solution.
Does it work?
Shopfloor-Online is operational in over 100 factories around the world.
Lighthouse is working in the automotive sector with companies like Nissan and Hydro; in pharmaceuticals and medical devices with companies like BD, Novo Nordisk; in FMCG with companies like Rexam and Crown.
Many of these involve multi-site projects in different countries.
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