My colleague Kevin Davenport was quoted in a recent AutomationWorld article "Connecting Expertise along Supply Chain," highlighting a number of use case scenarios where mobile advisor and remote expert solutions for manufacturing can and have enhanced business performance and outcomes across the supply chain. These improvements include:
Examples include Jabil, Coca Cola, Puma, and our most recently featured IoE customer case study example with Stanley Black & Decker (SB&D), which demonstrates how Cisco Connected Factory Wireless capabilities, in concert with AeroScout Industrial real-time location services, are used to pinpoint issues-alongside people-and-process context-for much quicker resolution, yielding double-digit throughput and productivity improvements. Check out this video, for more on the SB&D case and results:
Recently, I spoke with Roberto Michel, Editor-at-Large for Modern Materials Handling, on "4 ways the Internet of Things will reshape Manufacturing" where we discuss those areas within a production operations environment:
The connected factory IoT infrastructure built to support these business outcomes can be broadened with an architecture that converges supply chain linkages with production plants, to drive even greater value-compounded savings, cost avoidance and upside revenues-utilizing more unique services across the enterprise.
When we pull together IoE/IoT capabilities that more seamlessly integrate enterprise with factory workflow, visibility, quality and throughput interests-combining the supply chain use case scenarios Kevin talks about with the plant capabilities I've referred-we really start to transform the entire manufacturing value chain, driving breakaway business outcomes.