Engineering Industries eXcellence has reached a new milestone in an industrial innovator’s end-to-end Industry 4.0 digital transformation initiative. Our customer is a designer and manufacturer of bearings and engineered products for machinery-intensive businesses. Much like Engineering IndX, this innovator specializes in the implementation of customized solutions across industrial sectors such as Aerospace, Space & Defense, Automotive & Industrial Machinery, and Medical Device Manufacturing. The bearings manufacturer chose our Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) team to identify and implement digital solutions that will improve system connection, data synchronization and visibility across their enterprise operations.
Modern manufacturing is a complex and delicate process which relies on streamlined data, effective communication, real-time production visibility and a handful of other critical factors. Aware of this fact and dedicated to innovation, the customer sought digital solutions to eliminate paper-based processes and future-proof their manufacturing. Engineering Industries eXcellence was chosen as the right strategic partner to guide the bearings innovator on their transformation journey and help them achieve the following goals:
In the first phase of this transformation initiative, our Manufacturing Operations Management experts conducted a series of Industry 4.0 Assessments at the customer’s main industrial bearings production facility. After gathering requirements from various business units, reviewing system integration capabilities and mapping the interconnectivity of the customer’s production processes, our team was able to deliver a comprehensive digital manufacturing solution roadmap that outlined the right software products for their unique needs and next steps forward. Upon customer approval, our team was also selected to lead the implementation of the chosen solutions.
First, our technical team configured and deployed Siemens Opcenter Execution Discrete as the customer’s new Manufacturing Execution System (MES). In addition, our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) experts implemented Siemens Opcenter Advanced Planning & Scheduling. Next, our team began to build out a number of advanced system integrations between the customer’s MES, S&OP, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) & Key Performance Indicator (KPI) monitoring technologies. This process also involved the simultaneous training of the operators and end-users. In the next phase, our experts will integrate the customer’s existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to the new MOM ecosystem, enabling the connection of systems, processes, people and data across the entire Digital Thread.
Engineering Industries eXcellence is an industry-leading global competence hub comprised of business process analysts, technical experts and integration specialists who can deliver the best digital solutions and services on the market. Our niche knowledge across all the processes and systems of the product lifecycle, manufacturing operations and decision science have given us the capabilities to help this industrial bearings manufacturer define, design, implement and continuously innovate their business.
