When it comes to the digitization of business functions in manufacturing companies, the main focus is on these four areas: quality, production, inventory and maintenance.
Digging deeper into the production perspective, these are: Production planning (planning and scheduling), Material flows and manufacturing flows (routing), Resource management (personnel, authorizations, etc.), equipment and machine status, product information, release, quality management (quality checks, SPC, yield, rejects, rework), production follow-up (stop motion analysis, equipment availability, OEE), data collection (machine hook-ups, manual input, sensor, IIOT, etc.), inventory (warehouse, truck transportation, material buffers, inventory, QR and barcode counting), automation and control systems.
