Digital Solution Blueprint

The first step of digitisation of the manufacturing process is creating a virtual version of the entire manufacturing process in a digital format. While creating the virtual version it is essential to capture the principles behind the manufacturing practices of the companies. Also, such a virtual version should also have the ability to evolve as the understanding of the process and challenges deepens. It entails capturing of the right kind of process data and also defining the requirements in the right way. All of this requires careful thinking and abstraction. Hence it is advisable for companies to have their subject matter experts collaborate with consultant who has the knowhow of building such digital solution blueprint.

Developing the digital solution blueprint requires listing down all the manufacturing products along with their categories and grouping. Products can be grouped together if they have similarity of dimensions or attributes. Also they can be clustered into a category if their manufacturing process have a high degree of similarity. All of this can help a lot in developing specialization through creation of multiple production line. A production line can have one or many group and categories of product.

A second dimension of the digital solution blueprint is the digitisation of the different operations or activities through which product goes through. The operations granularity view encapsulates such details as input, output, workstations, skill required, operation time, operation cost and relevant storages. It also captures which kind of products go through the operation. Not all the products go through all operations. The operation view is the building block of product flow.

The third dimension of the digital solution blueprint is the product flow. The product flow is the set of operation in a predefined sequence through which the product goes through during its production process. The product flow could be mapped to one or more products. The product flow can be analysed and superimposed to create the production lines.

Finally, the fourth dimension of the digital solution blueprint is creating the quality check for each of the product flow. The quality check can be applied to multiple product flows and consequently to multiple production lines, depending on the similarities within the flows.

Once all the above dimension are created in digital format, they are stitched together by our internal experts and then implemented on to the mhophi platform. This allows us to create a customised solution tailor-made to the requirement of the individual companies. If all this sounds too complicated then rest assured that we have expert process consultants who will walk through your manufacturing process and help you develop your digital solution blueprint. In addition, we can also train and coach your users, send reminders and alerts for your day to day activities, set up a command centre on your behalf, identify improvement areas, and implement change in your process. So you can focus on your core manufacturing problem and let us worry about the digitisation problem