Enhance your ability to be proactive with the variables you need to consider in your day-to-day operations. And connect your manufacturing components to meet customer demands, eliminate potential failure points and increase or adjust production system productivity without incurring excessive costs and resources.

Many companies face challenges in tracking parts across their factory or from one facility to another thus driving increased costs, labour and inaccuracies along the way. Lack of visibility to inventory, points of failure, etc. results in product shortages and missed production cycles. Through Industry 4.0 connectivity, automation, fast information exchange and analytics, a new dimension of flexibility can be reached, and new approaches to planning and controlling production systems can be designed.

The outputs of a Smart Factory on manufacturing:

Enhanced productivity
– reduce production time, enable better asset utilisation, and inventory management with higher levels of automation
Enhanced flexibility
– execute the production steps for a large, or small number of products
Enhanced quality
– monitor current production in real-time and quickly intervene in case of errors via smart sensors

What production flexibility can do for you:

Move away from spreadsheets and other manual processes to automated solutions to better optimise the planning and scheduling of building a product. Bolster the continuity of operations — even with skeletal crews — with automated equipment-monitoring and process systems. Reduce cycle times and higher yield, quality, energy and throughout process industries where process parameters must be constantly monitored and optimised. And maximise operating equipment and process parameters to increase overall equipment efficiency. You can accomplish all of this, and production flexibility helps you get there.

Flexibility within production requires visibility into the production floor. Our solutions provide these insights by being the data collection and integration tools that help you make better production decisions in real time.

Eliminate human error and automate processes

Free up employee time to spend more time on valuable tasks
Paperless manufacturing helps automate inventory to minimise manual data input and maximise cost savings
Reduce the risk of reliance on institutional knowledge through automation
Eliminate fees to expedite overtime rates
See when items run low for efficient re-ordering

Boost productivity

Maximise asset utilisation and minimise downtime
Drive direct and indirect labour efficiencies
Manage supply network costs and synchronisation
Ensure both schedule and plan stability and accuracy

Reduce risk

Ensure raw materials price and availability
Manage warranty and recalls effectively

Ensure continuity of supply

Lean inventory management
Drive order lead time, production schedules and batch lot allocation of inventory
Free operating cash, reduce debt to plan improvements and potential acquisitions

Man managing inventory with Brady handheld RFID scanner

Minimise costs and optimise reorders

Organise and scale across facilities
Forecast inventory
Manage inventory to realise economies of scale

Man generating transaction data within the end-to-end Brady manufacturing process

Track work orders in real-time

Rapidly generate transaction data within the end-to-end manufacturing process
Track the bookends of raw materials in and finished goods out
Record line production and create actionable data
Create operational intelligence not tied to people resources

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INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING

Real-time data and end-to-end visibility will revolutionise your manufacturing operations

Speed

Reduce cycle times
Increase throughput
Make better decisions, faster
Innovate quickly

Productivity

Decrease production time
Better utilise labour, equipment, assets
Manage inventory effectively

Quality

Monitor production in real time
Quickly intervene in case of errors
Identify and fix issues proactively
Create one version of the truth

Efficiency

Reduce human error
Eliminate downtime/overtime
Forecast accurately

Flexibility

Shift easily as demand changes
Organise and scale across facilities
Continually optimise production

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for optimal workflows

Flexible manufacturing systems let you shift workflows effortlessly

The outputs of a Smart Factory on manufacturing:

Enhanced productivity

Enhanced flexibility

Enhanced quality

What production flexibility can do for you: