Manufacturing

EoZen drives you to the next generation of Manufacturing

What we observe

Makers of manufactured goods face many challenges, including increased competition in worldwide markets; a demand for more complex products; shortened delivery times; lower production costs; higher quality and longer life products; and increased pressure from consumers for variety and options in the goods being produced. "Mass customization" is now the goal of many manufacturers, as they try to reach the lowest production costs. In order to meet these challenges, manufacturers must look at all aspects of how they do business. To remain competitive, manufacturers must:

Understand the business trends driving the global economy;
Find a niche in which they can be competitive;
Become an exporter and/or importer and be involved in the world market-lace;
Capitalize on the enablers of information technology;
Increase the capital-to-labor ratio in operations;
Use comprehensive, well-supported-software to design products, drive machine tools and support operations;
Employ human resource practices that are attracting today's best talent and making "best-in-class" companies become fiercer in terms of intellectual capital and skills.

What we believe

The next generation of Manufacturing is all about collaboration. It requires new alliances between the ERP, MES (Manufacturing Execution System), automation, environmental, health and safety (EH&S), mobility and RFID vendors. Organizations have to look for a consistent way to manage the information and process flows across the following key elements:

Manufacturing capacity and constraints for demand matching and shaping;
Production orders, plant schedules and manufacturing performance;
Raw materials, work in process, finished goods inventory, quality and genealogy;
Product/component specifications, formulas and recipes, and bills of materials and routes
Asset performance and maintenance management best practices.

It is important to link detailed manufacturing operations with supply chain, which requires an architecture that supports global orchestration and local execution. User-centric interfaces, event-driven supply network collaboration and the convergence of product data management and process capability models are some of the key elements that are important to obtain the goals.

The road ahead

The new Manufacturing generation will implement a new architecture.

The 4 critical components of this architecture are:

Operations Services Bus

This layer contains of the message management, queuing, dispatching and arbitration functions which are needed to broker communications between the various entities that share the bus, including the legacy applications as MES and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs), and newer service-based composite applications.

Manufacturing Master Data Management (mMDM)

Schema definition, data model management and data synchronization across distributed master data repositories are the key elements of mMDM. Key to mMDM is the recognition that manufacturing master data has multiple masters within each manufacturing site, in addition to several coordination points with the enterprise systems that create product definitions. As such, data synchronization, name space management and governance processes are necessities that will be enabled by emerging operations services bus architectures and federated database management frameworks.

Manufacturing Services Enablement Layer

The components in this layer are used in the definition of events and services. Components include:

Operations event/activity monitoring;
Operations process management (OPM);
Operations intelligence.

Manufacturing Composition Environment

It’s an integrated development environment that delivers a set of tools allowing users:

to develop code across multiple platforms;
to collect and present data and tasks on users interfaces and devices;
to invoke and orchestrate services that are evolving on different operating systems and hardware platforms.

Our solutions

Discover our specific solutions and expertises for the Manufacturing business line:

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