With pressure on manufacturing businesses for profitability, productivity and innovation in a global pandemic – ensuring that data assets are protected and accessible is one of the most important initiatives for manufacturers to take on. In this presentation, you will hear from Michael Watson from Microsoft and Martin Boyd of Profisee for specific steps you can take to put the foundation of trust for data in place to ensure efficiency, agility and success.
Manufacturing must be able to harness and integrate the power of data to become an efficient and digitally-connected business. But how can this be done when your underlying data is incongruous, insufficient, or incomplete? A successful manufacturing data management strategy must focus on strong governance to ensure that crucial data is gathered and stored in a timely manner, and is easily accessible and used at any time you need it.
Top performers in the manufacturing industry are adopting a complete data management method that includes implementing an MDM hub to consolidate all important information including customer, vendor and product information, into one repository. This enables teams to easily access the information they require and helps teams to collaborate.
This allows manufacturers to create a digital trail of what happens to the parts during production. This is essential to troubleshooting production issues and enhancing processes and tests. It enables you to identify what went wrong with a machine during a particular production run and the reason for it, which allows you to respond faster in the event of a crisis, and also become more resilient as an organisation.