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Drive Manufacturing Quality Improvement, Control and Assurance with Mobility
Driving manufacturing quality improvement, control and assurance processes
6% of the overall manufacturing workforce is dedicated to quality assurance.
Manufacturing organizations are challenged with improving their current operations processes with a small percentage of quality improvement, control and assurance professionals. With smaller teams, organizations are challenged with producing high-quality and reliable products to meet regulations and standards, while making the best use of their resources.
Mobility provides manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to improve their current processes with automated systems that allow quality improvement, control and assurance teams to easily complete inspection and reporting tasks. Mobile apps improve documentation accuracy, and increase business responsiveness and workflow efficiency.
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Current trends in quality improvement, control and assurance operational excellence
• Implementing advanced technology for providing regular checks that guarantee accuracy, completion and integrity with right-time data
• Integration of automated workforce systems that address mistakes with right-time data, improving reliability and providing confidence in the organization’s products and services
• Increased stringent regulations for flawless products, as a mistake can cost an organization thousands of dollars
The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY Mobility provides the opportunity for manufacturing organizations to improve their current processes in-house. New apps allow for better collaboration between quality improvement, control and assurance teams.
Organizations hired costly consulting firms to drive operational excellence initiatives for accurate and efficient quality improvement, control and assurance methods.
OLD REALITY
The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY Consumers have been trained to use mobile devices, and new mobile apps provide a fast, personalized user experience custom-tailored for their role.
Organizations were constrained for resources when trying to adapt current quality improvement, control and assurance teams to new business processes.
OLD REALITY
The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY Mobile apps provide manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to modernize and replace cumbersome processes in a cost-effective, more efficient way.
Organizations relied on outdated manual processes, such as collaborating using paper or spreadsheets, which are time-consuming and prone to human error.
OLD REALITY
Identify customer value by responding to their needs
Identify Customer Value With automated, data-intensive systems, quality improvement, control and assurance teams can make continuous improvement to meet customer value and improve responsiveness.
Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility optimizes every point on the customer value chain to deliver the maximum efficiency, responsiveness and customer value.
Identify Customer Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull(Optimize Materials
and Labor)
Optimize processes by understanding customer values
Map the Value Stream
Quality assurance teams can optimize their current processes to continuously improve the quality of the products produced, constantly challenging their team to increase quality standards.
Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides the tools quality improvement, control and assurance teams need to optimize processes and increase responsiveness to customers.
Identify Customer Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull(Optimize Materials
and Labor)
Track metrics and eliminate waste with the right data
Create Flow Accelerate all quality improvement, control and assurance initiatives with the ability to collect more metrics to further analyze and optimize processes.
Where Mobility Adds Value Mobile apps encourage a culture of increased data collection and integrity, which allows better fine-tuning of critical quality improvement, control and assurance processes.
Identify Customer Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull(Optimize Materials
and Labor)
Optimize materials and labor to measure customer buying habits
Establish Pull Quality improvement, control and assurance teams have now identified where to be more responsive, by collecting data to optimize processes and make material and labor decisions for desired inputs and outputs.
Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides a way to put metrics to work, modernizing processes and optimizing materials and labor costs to get the job done.
Identify Customer Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull(Optimize Materials
and Labor)
Pursue perfection with continuous evaluation of current processes
Pursue Perfection By making processes more efficient and productive, it is easier to drive continuous improvement. Your team can now understand customer value and how to maximize processes to meet their needs. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility gives your team the opportunity to pursue perfection through iterative, continuous improvement.
Identify Customer Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull(Optimize Materials
and Labor)
Mobility adds value from supply chain to sale
Supply Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales &
Marketing Post Sale
Inventory Control
Real-time Logistics
Scheduling
Receipt Acknowledgements
Product Lead Times
Order Tracking
Scheduling Visibility
Quality Control
Dispatch Scheduling
Logistics
Route Optimization
Warehouse Automation
Customer Dashboard
Sales Reporting
Quotes/Estimating
Competitor Intel/Analytics
Work Order Approvals
Service Manuals
Service Performance
Dealer Management
Improve primary manufacturing functions with mobility
Admin, IT and Finance
Human Resources
Procurement
Product Development
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Examples of pre-built manufacturing quality improvement, control and assurance apps
Replace manual, paper-based processes
Improve performance with real-time data delivery
Monitor production quality and operations metrics in real-time
How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?
Identify a meaningful quality assurance challenge or need that could be addressed with a mobile app.
Many challenges in quality assurance tend to be the "little things" that add up to daily frustration and loss of productivity for the team or manage-ment. Examples include relying on manual process-es and collecting information manually on paper.
How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your internal IT department about existing policies and procedures that might be applicable to mobile app deployment. When researching mobile apps, security should be a top priority for your manufacturing quality assurance team. Keep your IT team involved as you HYDOXDWH�VROXWLRQV�DQG�DSSV�WKDW�DUH�WDLORUHG�WR�ĆW�your team's needs.
How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your team, ad-dressing their pain points and how their job can be made easier with a mobile app.
For a mobile app to be successful for your quality
assurance team, it must be focused on their needs.
If they could have a set of mobile apps to help them
with their job, what would the top three be? How
challenging is it for the team to gather information
and collaborate together to achieve operational
excellence?
How can you start “going mobile” for operational excellence today?
Identify the key goals that your manufac-turing quality assurance team wants to achieve with an investment in mobility. When planning for the implementation of a mobile app, consider what information and data they need to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the PHWULFV�DQG�UHVXOWV�WKDW�ZLOO�GHĆQH�VXFFHVV�IRU�\RXU�ĆUVW�PRELOH�DSS"�
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mobility to your operational excellence challenges