TOP BUSINESS ISSUES
Downtime and Outages are Eroding Profitability
Outages of HMI, support applications and database servers directly impact resourcing, cost management, delivery and quality. Crippling outages eat time and remove production-lines from service. Avoid outages via virtualization technologies. The ROI on these deployments typically pay for themselves in the first year.
Production Reporting has got to be Faster, More Accurate and Relevant
Access to real-time, relevant data is a critical requirement to superior management and oversight of the plant. It is so much more than a report showing items produced and variations thereof. The term is Business Intelligence. Enabling Business Intelligence will bring you the right information at the right time for your management team to direct a productive organization.
Staying in touch with Production when not on the Plant Floor
The workforce is much more mobile in today's fast paced manufacturing environment. Everyone is doing more with less. Applied recognizes these hurdles and is bringing balanced and cost effective solutions to our clients. We typically start a year in advance, working with our strategic partners, vetting out emerging technology solutions to determine if they are applicable for the plant floor.
Working Together: Manufacturing, Business and IT
Applied is a hybrid technology provider that specializes in delivering solutions to both Manufacturing and IT organizations. We understand the business challenges, operating requirements, technology needs, and people from both manufacturing and corporate IT. Our experience and insight enables us to help bridge the gap and bring once disparate business divisions together to form a united vision.
Computing Resources are Over / Under Sized and not fully utilized
Another inefficiency found on the plant floor is that computing resources are over or under sized and not fully utilized. Ultimately, computing assets should be utilized as efficiently as plant floor production systems. This is possible and attainable. With Applied Thinking, you can leverage a control system approach for managing computing resources. Again, the results are clear, improved machine operations and maximized product yield.