eManufacturing

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e-Manufacturing

• The Shrinking World of Business

ITS404 Semester July05 Nov05
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What is e-Manufacturing?

• e-Manufacturing is the application of Internet
  technology to plant floor operations, from
  factory devices to manufacturing execution
  systems to enterprise resource planning systems.

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What is e-Manufacturing? contd

• e-Manufacturing is a transformation system that
  enables the manufacturing operations to achieve
  predictive near-zero-downtime performance as well
  as to synchronize with the business systems
  through the use of web-enabled and tether-free
  (i.e. wireless, web, etc.) infotronics
  technologies.
• It integrated information and decision making
  among data flow (of machine/process level),
  information flow (of factory and supply system
  level), and cash flow (of business system level).
  
• e-Manufacturing is a business strategy as well as
  a core competency for companies to compete in
  todays e-business environment.

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Figure 1. e-Manufacturing integrates Internet
technologies throughout production, from plant
floor devices to corporate business systems. An
integrated e-business lets employees and partners
drill down into the corporate intranet to check
product availability, place orders, and track
shipments.
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What is e-Manufacturing?contd

• Deployed within an organization, the Internet can
  provide plant-floor personnel with real-time
  views of remote data.
• Embedded in factory equipment, it can produce
  smart sensors and intelligent machine tools.
• Connecting one company with another, it can
  foster collaborative designs and enhance
  just-in-time deliveries.
• When combined with supply-chain and
  customer-relationship management systems,
  manufacturing e-business enables employees and
  partners to move through the corporate intranet,
  checking product availability, placing orders,
  and tracking shipments anytime and anywhere.

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How Internet has impacted the manufacturing
operation

• e-Real-Time
• The ability to distribute and display
  factory-floor data over the Internet through
  standard Web browsers.
• Nearly all data collection products contain some
  form of this capability, from supervisory control
  and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine
  interface (HMI) packages to statistical process
  control (SPC) and instrument calibration
  programs.
• Now, instead of having to call from your office
  in Boston to your plant in San Jose, you can
  launch your favorite browser, type in a password,
  and download up-to-the-minute sensor data or SPC
  reports.

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How Internet has impacted the manufacturing
operation contd

• e-Manufacturing systems rely on the usual core
  technologies to gather and distribute factory
  dataTCP/IP-based Internet, computer servers, and
  standard Web browsers.
• In addition, because most manufacturing takes
  place within a companys brick-and-mortar walls,
  e-manufacturing systems assume that factory
  equipment resides on Ethernet-based networks that
  are increasingly tied to corporate intranets.
• Thousands of specialized software packages that
  supervise the collection, analysis, and display
  of factory data, are nearly all browser
  compatible, to one degree or another.

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How Internet has impacted the manufacturing
operation contd

• Collecting and Sharing Data
• One approach to displaying remote data over the
  Internet uses a Web-based server to pull data
  from the remote instrument and display it on a
  local computer with special client software.
• Another method pushes data directly from the
  instrument or PC-based host system, bypassing the
  need for a separate Web server.
• In either case, a single browser page can display
  data from multiple devices, regardless of their
  location.

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E-Manufacturers Interactions

• Enterprise-Suppliers Collaborate on product
  designs Enhance deliveries
• Enterprise-Customers Check product
  availability Diagnose and repair products in
  the field Monitor remote equipment Place
  orders Track shipments

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Manufacturing
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e-Manufacturing
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Strategies for e-manufacturing

• Embrace the Internet. All parties in the company
  must recognize the
• organizational change required to adopt an
  e-manufacturing strategy and the
• greater influence of the Internet and of
  customer demand.
• 2. Engineers have an important place in
  decision-making process - Plant engineers bring
  expertise in plant-floor processes, as well as
  the information available (and required) for
  seamless integration. Their plant floor
  experience and perspective will prove to be
  invaluable as e-manufacturing efforts proceed.
• 3. Build an internal team, and draw the
  companys roadmap for e-manufacturing.
• Draw from various departments and functions
  within the organization, and discuss the common
  and specialized benefits each would receive from
  information transparency. Each segment of the
  organization should
• have a vision for success reliant on information
  transparency.

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Strategies for e-manufacturing contd

• 4. Find a company leader to serve as champion.
  Whenever possible, secure
• the CEO as the e-manufacturing mouthpiece for the
  enterprise. If an e-business
• strategy is in place for the company, its
  especially critical to be sure that
• e-manufacturing is a key element of that broader
  strategy. Thus, the
• e-commerce director or CIO is another good
  champion to enlist.
• 5. Take one step at a time on the roadmap. Dont
  attempt to do everything
• at once that is a lesson to be learned from the
  original ERP implementations.
• It took many years for plant floor, front office,
  and supply chain to evolve to
• where they are today take a logical path to
  evolve them via e-manufacturing,
• and measure successes along the way. Focus on
  actions that have the highest immediate impact
  (i.e. the 80/20 rule).

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Strategies for e-manufacturing contd

• 6. Measure the success and failure of the
  roadmap. Put metrics in place to determine the
  real savings and efficiencies from a transparent
  enterprise.
• 7. Evaluate your traditional channels and
  listen to their needs. Analyze the ways the
  company works with customers, suppliers,
  distributors, and others to determine their
  effectiveness, and find ways to streamline
  relationships and processes.
• 8. Build on your existing foundations, and on
  your incremental successes along the way. An
  e-manufacturing strategy will help your
  organization embrace information transparency
  that will foster operational excellence, while
  not creating more work, major overhauls, or
  enormous investments.
• 9. Get help from an expert. Consider the
  outsourcing trend in manufacturing.

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Sounds goodbut

• Things to ponder
• Employment ??
• Are Malaysians ready for this?
• Infrastructure