Accelerating Operational Excellence in 2015: Improving the Value Stream with Mobility

Addressing operations challenges

Catavolt launched a survey titled “How Leading Manufacturers are Accelerating Operational Excellence” in September 2014, to gain insight on how manufacturing organizations are working to continuously improve their operations, workflows and business processes.

We collected 111 responses from manufacturing professionals in various disciplines on trends and technology that are driving operational excellence. Increased competition in the market, meeting customer expectations, rapidly changing plant floor conditions, and the need to increase revenue, is pushing manufacturing organizations across all industries towards more efficient operational processes.

Manufacturing organizations are increasing operational excellence investments in 2015

•  Value stream maps for manufacturing give organizations a plan that details all the problems encountered in current processes and where to improve, in order to achieve positive results.

•  New technology is giving manufacturing teams the ability to easily map their value stream, make process improvements, and identify bottlenecks in operations.

•  With technology that provides real-time data for organizations, manufacturing teams can adopt processes that emphasize continuous improvement and eliminate wasteful processes and spending.

85% of manufacturing thought leaders plan to in-crease investments for operational excellence initiatives for their organizations in 2015. (Catavolt, 2015)

What is value stream mapping?

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Why is value stream mapping important for manufacturing organizations?

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Value Stream Mapping: The Current State

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Value Stream Mapping: The Future State

A future state map in manufacturing en-ables teams to pinpoint ways to change current processes to reduce waste and make improvements internally.

Value Stream Mapping: The Ideal State

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An ideal state map in manufacturing en-ables teams to develop a shared vision of what the organization wants to achieve for their operations.

How mobility helps manufacturing organizations

Mobility is a tool that helps manufacturing organizations reach their “ideal state” in value stream mapping.

Value stream mapping is the process by which manufacturing companies identify areas for process improvements. By creating value stream maps, organizations can provide optimum value internally and to their customers, through a complete value creation process with mimimum waste.

With mobility, value stream mapping is much more effective and easier to understand for manufacturing organizations. Mobility give teams access to collaborative communication tools and real-time data needed to visualize and analyze wasteful spending and delays.

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Mobility creates customer value at every step of the manufacturing process

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Inventory Control

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Scheduling

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Product Lead Times

Order Tracking

Scheduling Visibility

Quality Control

Dispatch Scheduling

Logistics

Route Optimization

Warehouse Automation

Work Order Approvals

Service Manuals

Service Performance

Dealer Management

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Read our report & learn more about how mobility drives operational excellence

Click here to view Catavolt’s “Accelerating Operational

Excellence in 2015: Trends and Technology” Report

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• Addressing the importance of value stream

mapping in manufacturing organizations and

how mobile apps can help

• How manufacturing organizations are using

technology like mobility to accelerate their

operational excellence initiatives