Smart Manufacturing 2023

Manufacturing Excellence 4.0

Overview

Manufacturing Excellence can be understood as the overarching improvement programmes that businesses deploy to extract value. When it comes to transforming manufacturing operations using traditional methods, several concerns have come to the fore. They include:

The availability and trustworthiness of information to make decisions and perform problem solving.
The waste created through the process of implementing a Manufacturing Excellence programme.
The change management and buy-in from all stakeholders across the organisation.
The alignment of the Manufacturing Excellence programme (with overarching business strategy and objectives).
The integration between core manufacturing processes and support functions.

These challenges can be grouped under the umbrella of Factory Blindness.