The Synchrono®Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform is a collection of systems that enable the real-time visual factory of the future. We’ve combined the power of demand-driven planning and scheduling with manufacturing operations’ capabilities and more to provide everyone at every level of your organization with a dynamic view of what’s happening at every stage of your manufacturing process; from order inception through production and delivery.
By integrating demand-driven, Pull-based, Lean and constraints management principles across your organization, you reduce variability and increase velocity throughout your plant and extended supply chain. Our video explains how:
More and more manufacturers are making the move towards demand-driven manufacturing to maintain – or gain – an edge in today’s competitive landscape. In synchronizing your resources and systems, you gain a more fluid, transparent environment with real-time access to information across your operations and extended supply chain.
• Sync systems and resources
• Respond to real demand
• Predict and pre-empt issues
Make instant, informed decisions that improve flow at every stage of your manufacturing process – and get everyone on the same page with clear priorities. On-time delivery, improved predictability and greater overall performance will follow.
Synchronize your workforce, methods, machines, materials and information
Synchrono® manufacturing software systems are powerful on their own and when integrated with each other – and your machines and enterprise systems under the Synchrono Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform – you can take your manufacturing operations to a new level, transforming your business.
Real-time, self-service manufacturing visualization and communication system
Value Independently
- Connects to any data source for enterprise wide equipment, process and metrics monitoring
- Drag-and-drop simplicity empowers anyone to create individual, work-cell or enterprise-wide dashboard displays
- Supports predictive and prescriptive analysis that exposes data and encourages action
- Empowers more informed decision-making and continuous improvement efforts
Value on the Platform
- Creates visual communications boards with real-time production status from SyncManufacturing™ for the entire enterprise to view
- Displays real-time SyncKanban™ replenishment signals as they move through your organization
- Presents real-time machine status and work cell performance through SyncOperations™ — as well as actionable information that helps drive flow through the organization
- Quickly see all issues logged in SyncAlert™ that are open or in process
Demand-driven planning, scheduling and execution software
Value Independently
- Creates real-time demand pull
- Increases flow
- Optimizes throughput
- Reduces inventory costs
- Drives on-time production and customer satisfaction
Value on the Platform
- Dynamically aligns production resources based on machine status signals from SyncOperations™
- Incorporates the status of Kanbans and supermarket health from SyncKanban™ into an integrated manufacturing plan and execution process
- Clearly communicates operational performance and status via SyncView™
- Adjusts the production plan as needed based on escalation and action plans communicated from SyncAlert™
Pull-based inventory replenishment software for supply chain execution and collaboration
Value Independently
- Sends real-time demand signals across the supply chain
- Optimizes inventory levels
- Resizes Kanbans and adjusts K-Loops® automatically
- Improves visibility and cash flow
- Automates supplier replenishment
Value on the Platform
- Aligns inventory consumption information to identify material constraints and adjusts SyncManufacturing™ planning and scheduling
- Coordinates supplier replenishment with open purchase orders and financial data collected in SyncOperations™
- Makes on-hand inventories and supplier replenishment data visible to everyone via SyncView™
- Emptied Kanbans can signal an alert using SyncAlert™
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Gathers and analyzes information from enterprise and machine-level systems for driving workflow, contextualizing and historizing data for smart monitoring and synchronization of equipment and processes
Value Independently
- Enables real-time workflow automation of events and actions
- Collects and analyzes time-series process and event-based context data during
every phase of production
- Aggregates data from Synchrono systems, as well as from machine-level and disparate enterprise systems
- Provides actionable information to engineering and continuous improvement teams
Value on the Platform
- Works with SyncManufacturing™ to pull real-time completion and consumption data from machines and to notify scheduling and execution when a machine has a disruption
- Historize contextual data about the performance of your SyncKanban™ K-Loops™ to give you a detailed view into your value stream, exposing waste so your continuous improvement crew can eliminate it
- Identifies machine-level issues that are communicated and/or escalated to the appropriate parties through SyncAlert™
- Collects and analyzes machine-level and workflow data to pre-empt issues by making action plans visible organization-wide via SyncView™
Real-time notification and escalation software
Value Independently
- When disruptive events occur, quickly notify team members through manual or automatic alerts
- Design escalation paths and the corresponding email or text messages
- Communicate action plans to appropriate levels throughout the organization
- Set up alert contact lists and chains of notification that automatically adjusts when shift changes occur
Value on the Platform
- Communicates escalation and action plans to SyncManufacturing™ so the production plan may be adjusted as needed
- Integrates with SyncKanban™ to create alerts signaling empty Kanbans
- Machine-level issues are communicated from SyncOperations™ and are escalated to the appropriate parties
- View all open or in process issues in SyncView™
More informed and more empowered
The Synchrono® Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform synchronizes your entire environment by connecting machine-level, enterprise and Synchrono® systems in real-time with information accessible on any device. This allows for complete transparency and the ability to quickly manage variability and constraints while monitoring machines and work cells. The Synchrono® Demand-Driven Manufacturing Platform tracks activity across all systems and will automatically generate alerts, escalation and action plans to address any quality or flow issues in real-time.
The future of manufacturing is based on demand. See how you can synchronize your enterprise in real-time by requesting a demo today.
