The agile manufacturing company

All elements of production feed into one ecosystem. Machines, humans, material and products are all connected through their digital twins finally providing a complete picture of the production process. Find out more about how you can use the WORKERBASE platform for connected machines, connected frontline workers, connected material and connected products.

When all aspects of the production are connected you get a complete view of the current status in realtime. You get a clear understanding of what is happening, why it is happening and how things relate to each other. Full visibility and transparency of the production process is the basis for faster decision-making processes and the enabler for all further optimizations.

A connected ecosystem with real-time data allows you to make optimizations without any assumptions or second guessing. Based on a system of AI-driven business rules, the WORKERBASE system collects data from all connected sources and steer the production flow in real-time depending on the current situation. This means incidents are automatically routed to the most suitable worker or replenishment requests are issued just at the right time without any worker intervention. You can design literally any kind of process.

With radically changing buying behaviour and global disruptions such as the COVID pandemic or shortage of a wide range of materials, businesses need to be able to adapt to changing conditions quickly.

The faster an organisation can adapt to change, the greater the benefits. Typically, the root causes that require process adaptations are different and may be:

This means internal processes need to be streamlined in order to not cause any bottlenecks or delays. One of these typical bottlenecks is changeover procedures that are often unnecessarily time consuming. In many cases tasks in these processes can be parallelized which leads to drastically reduced durations. This in turn means the minimum viable lot size can be reduced and flexibility in meeting customer demand increases.

Generating real-time data across all elements in the production flow and not only the machine data allows to make accurate predictions of the shopfloor status. By combining machine data with data captured from manual work processes you will be able to determine the end to end resolution times or incidents and dig deeper into root cause analysis. This means that production flow can also be forecasted. Based on historical data and your production plans you can start predicting utilization rates, likeliness of incidents occurring or expected yield rates and take preventive action early. Either let the system decide based on your business rules or alert any of your expert staff to investigate upcoming situations ahead of time.