THINK APPLIED: Unified Manufacturing

Unified Manufacturing

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Unified Manufacturing significantly reduces downtime and outages while increasing productivity and enabling advanced business intelligence. This is a bold statement, yet completely realistic, achievable and provable. The Unified Architecture is a modular framework that simply removes single points of failure while greatly enhancing business continuity, scalability, agility, mobility and manageability.

Applied's unified manufacturing approach starts with being proactive, beginning with the end in mind and putting first things first. Our expertise lies in our ability to see the things that cannot be seen by the casual observer - we call it "seeing around corners". From an event horizon perspective, we are waist-deep in the trends that shape manufacturing. Applied is accustomed to working with world class manufacturing industries, executing maturing engineering practices and helping our clients implement best-in-class operations. Applied's strategic relationships with OEM's, systems integrators and our technology partner ecosystem are part of our broad base of solutions that benefit our manufacturing clients. We are fortunate to work with early adopters and the early majority across the manufacturing field.

BUSINESS ISSUES

A sampling of some of the more significant issues organizations are facing today.

Downtime and outages are eroding profitability
Production reporting has got to be faster, more accurate and relevant
Staying in touch with production when not on the plant floor
Working together: Manufacturing, Business and IT
1:1 computing resources = single points of failure + under-utilized assets + management nightmare