Industry > Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Process and manufacturing industries face numerous challenges from procuring raw material to producing finished products, and the transitional manufacturing process entails an extensive set of quality checks and procedures to ensure consistent product quality and cost efficiency. These challenges are compounded by external pressures, ranging from the need for environmental sustainability to the global increase in manufacturing competition are driving an increased focus on the business strategies and technology needed to maintain an organization’s competitive edge. |
|
Raw materials are the foundation for any manufacturing process, and so each material is controlled through comprehensive sets of SOPs to ensure the quality. Spectrum maintains the complete set of SOPs in the system, and ensures that each step is being followed and reported appropriately, that each raw material has been through the specific set of procedures and analyzed for performance against each defined standard. Spectrum depicts business performance measurement, supplier and manufacturing performance, compliance and quality against every single standard.
|
Facing increased regulatory scrutiny and cost pressure, progressive companies are introducing supplier performance reporting to grade and assess suppliers based on performance, material quality, and operational stability. Such a system can reduce costs, ensuring less time and effort is wasted with unreliable suppliers and dealing with the impacts of low quality. Yet few companies have managed to implement such a system, relying instead on spreadsheets and other manual and isolated solutions. Spectrum contains supplier performance reporting capabilities, helping companies save cost, improve quality and realize the benefits of a more efficient compliance process. |
A manufacturing operation's goal is to make product that meets the customer's needs. Specifications reflect the customer's needs, and a product that is in specification is good, and can be sold to the customer, but a product that is out of specification will not be accepted, and so results in cost through rework or scrap. The variation and accuracy that affect whether a product is in or out of specification are monitored and analysed through Spectrum, and are reported real-time to management and operations teams who can intervene to resolve the issues.
How effectively production variation can be monitored and controlled during the different manufacturing phases is dependent on the tools and systems used. Spectrum is industry standard software to monitor manufacturing through the timely measurement of the critical quality attributes of each process during the processing, in order to ensure the quality finished product. The solution is designed to incorporate performance and monitoring attributes in reporting and analysis so that companies can:
- Produce consistent product quality to reduce cost and maintain customer satisfaction
- Bring innovative products to market quickly
- Increase product quality, yield and throughput
- Increase cost efficiency,
- Improve optimization and plant utilization,
- Minimize total cycle time
- Improve end-to-end manufacturing process
- and realize compliance at low cost and effort
|
