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Collaborative Process Drivers

As globalization and e-business accelerate, you face unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Your customers expect you to be able to deliver assemblies under standard component lead times, produce high first-pass yields, lower costs over the product lifecycle and reduce their inventory exposure. Delivering on this tall list of demands requires the ability to synchronize the entire engineering, manufacturing and supply chain and to work as a natural extension of your customers' organizations.

In today's intensely competitive e-business environment the manufacturing business mission is to do more with less; do it faster, better and cheaper (reduce operating cost). World-class lean and agile manufacturing models depend on establishing work-in-process visibility, eliminating manual and paper-based processes, and integrating real-time information between the manufacturing plant floor and enterprise business systems.

Competitive markets demand manufacturing systems that improve cost control, shrink cycle times, and generate higher throughput. Market advantage is obtained through better first time yield and faster product changeovers. Rapid adaptation to market demand places emphasis squarely on agile, lean manufacturing operations. Manufacturers can enhance profit margins and customer service by improving cross-functional information visibility, and by tracking critical performance measures.

Real-time linkage between business, supply chain, engineering and manufacturing control systems is the pivotal support mechanism for nimble and cost-effective manufacturing operations. Manufacturing information control and visibility improves manufacturing efficiency, product quality and customer responsiveness by making accurate and timely data available to both supply chain and enterprise business systems.

The manufacturing process is highly capital intensive, complex and lengthy. New product starts typically drive fluctuating yields. Efficiency and increased profitability necessitates comprehensive solutions that incorporate collaborative process, product tracking, and other process-information-intensive applications.

Complex, nonlinear processes with lots of intervention points require dynamic flexibility and interactive execution systems. Process visibility allows identification of quality issues as they occur, while detailed product genealogy supports analyses aimed at avoiding and reducing potential scrap and rework. Collaborative processes and tools optimize process management, increase productivity and enhance customer service through improved accuracy and velocity.

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