Using Mobile Apps to Drive Manufacturing Operational Excellence

Where Mobility is Today

Corporate-Owned, Personally Enabled (COPE)

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)

Apps

2003: Mobility as a Hybrid Device

•  In 2003, Blackberry devices were introduced with physical keyboards

•  COPE (Corporate-Owned, Personally Enabled)

•  Consumers had the ability to text message and e-mail from a mobile device for the first time

2007: The BYOD Revolution

•  In 2007, Apple introduced the first iPhone

•  One-to-two function apps were launched

•  Changed the way we viewed software—lighter, quicker and gets out of the way when you’re done with it

The Implementation of MDM

•  The introduction of Android devices saw the beginning of different operating systems

•  Unpredictable landscape for mobile device security

•  Corporate IT departments responded with implementing MDM to secure corporate data

The Shift Away from MDM

•  Forward thinking IT departments began to move away from MDM and towards EMM in the late 2000’s

•  Management of data and apps began on corporate back ends, rather than on the user’s device

The Shift Towards Managing Apps

•  Today, the focus is shifting away from managing devices towards managing apps

•  By implementing apps, organizations provide new opportunities for maximizing operational excellence and modernizing business processes

Where is the Opportunity?

•  Mobility is the next opportunity for process improvements & enhanced operations

•  Drive faster, more rapid and informed decision making

•  Reducing the number of steps it takes to do one’s job

•  Added productivity both inside and outside of facilities

•  Utilize existing business processes & modernize them, making them more efficient & enjoyable to employees

Where to Start?

•  Think about manual, cumbersome or error prone processes

•  Usage of paper is a big indicator of potential for process improvement

•  Start small, but significant, get real results

•  Improve visibility for management using mobile apps to get real world results

Lean and Mobility

Identify Customer Value

(Responsiveness)

Map the Value Stream

(Optimize Processes)

Create Flow

(Track Metrics, Eliminate Waste)

Establish Pull

(Determine Optimal Materials/Labor)

Pursue Perfection

(Use an Agile, Iterative Dev. Approach)

1. Identify Customer Value

•  Define value from the perspective of your final customer and meeting their needs

•  Focus on responsiveness and the need for high functionality

•  Analyze data to determine what your customers want and needs

2. Map the Value Stream

•  Optimize your current processes

•  Your value stream lists all the specific actions required to deliver

•  Create a map of your current state of operations and the desired future for your organization

•  Mapping the value stream is a crucial part of lean implementation of mobile apps

3. Create Flow

•  Tracking metrics from any place, at any time allows your managers to make operations decisions more quickly

•  Ensure your mobile apps flow smoothly through each step of your manufacturing process in the least lead-time possible

•  Eliminate unnecessary operational waste

4. Establish Pull

•  Determine optimal materials & eliminate labor costs

•  Let your team take a role in determining what is needed from your mobile apps

•  Use mobile analytics to locate orders and materials more easily

•  More closely track labor and materials costs

5. Pursue Perfection

•  Bring it all together

•  Maximize efficiencies in production, labor, cost and revenue

•  Make changes & innovate consistently to maintain a competitive advantage in the market

•  Use an agile, iterative development approach to implementing mobile apps in your organization

Success Story: PCMC

•  Company: Paper converting machinery manufacturer

•  Challenge: Increased sales stretching existing capacity, needed to automate communications with business partners

Success Story: PCMC

•  Answer: –  Catavolt automated the supplier process for

“pushing” manufacturing orders to suppliers

•  Results: –  Eliminated need for phone calls –  Minimized operating costs –  Reduced quote to acceptance cycle from days to

hours –  On-time deliveries improved from 75% to 95% –  Lower admin costs=an overall reduction in material

costs

Success Story: Luverne Truck

•  Company: Designer and manufacturer of aftermarket truck parts, distributes via sales force operating from 17 warehouses

•  Challenge: Order processing through corporate delaying accurate inventory information

Success Story: Luverne Truck

•  Answer: –  Catavolt gave sales reps real-time access to

corporate data

•  Results: –  More accurate inventory –  Accurate invoicing, eliminating surprise payments –  Real-time data, reps see YTD sales by week and

orders reflected immediately –  Small investment, big rewards-No new investments

other than iPads and a few hours of instruction for IT

Example Apps

Plant Floor Dashboard

Plant Floor Real Time Status

Supervisor Dashboard

Plant Floor Inspections

Locate Stock Item

Stock Orders Shipping

Dashboard

Shipping Supervisor Dashboard

Today’s Hazards Stock Trans

History Clock In

Employee Timecard Editor

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