Now a dayās in a competitive environment adoption of technology is very important because a certain level of operational capacity is limited for manual and semi-automatic tasks for any organization. For achieving excellence in operational processes now a dayās low-cost automation is very popular. Many organizations are avoiding adopting technology based on three main key reasons, the first initial investment is too high, second people’s mindset (not easily accepting to changing operational environment), and third are not able to take risks and challenges.
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What is the latest technology is used to transform manufacturing processes?
When we compare the industry’s growth towards technology in the started era of manufacturing to now, changed a lot of things in terms of organizational productivity improvement, reducing operational cost, minimizing customer order cycle and operational cycle time, quality and delivery improvement, and many more. In this article, we will try to understand what are opportunities for improving organizational productivity in the upcoming days in terms of the adoption of technology.
There are several ways to adopt technology for productivity improvement as mentioned below.
1. Automation and Robotics
Automation and robotics help a lot to improve organizational productivity. Automation is basically updating manual or semi-automatic processes into fully automatic processes. At a particular level, the adoption of automatic processes and human intervention is required and to minimize human intervention robots will help to handle operational activities such as material loading and unloading and other repetitive activities.
From per automation technology adoption point of view, mainly three ways to transform manufacturing industries as per listed below.
- Upgrade machinery.
- Upgrade material handling equipment.
- Improving current machinery with a customized design based on industry requirements.
2. Internet of Things:
IoT is an advanced technology and helps a lot to improve organizational productivity. There are several ways IOT helps in the organization as per mention below.
- Helps to provide all the devices and machinery interconnected & operational data at the fingertips.
- Helps to capture accurate ground conditions with all the facts.
- IoT is able to transform useful information flow.
- IoT devices help to capture real-time data analytics and on time improve operational performance.
3. Cloud Compounding
Cloud compounding helps to improve organizational performance through information & technology devices and software as per mention below.
- Software as a service: – it is providing overall access for centralized software to all devices and users manage its work by individual devices.
- Platform as a service: – it’s focused on developing software as per user requirements.
- Infrastructure as a service: – Iaas is a virtual visualization technology and it helps to provide product visualization before manufacturing or planning.
- It helps to facilitate employees virtually.
- Organizational data and important information access to individual devices so, the user is able to take any time action on operational performance.
- It helps to access the latest tools as per market conditions.
4. Smart manufacturing
There are several practices to be followed as per smart manufacturing concepts as per mention below.
- Digital standard operating procedure and work instructions.
- Digital performance management system of equipment and human resources.
- Digitally drive production and maintenance tasks.
- Helps to optimize manufacturing processes through the virtual replica of operation and supply chain system.
5. Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence helps a lot in improving operational performance, such as improving quality assurance performance and preventing defects based on high qualities cameras, which helps to improve customer satisfaction using answering 24/7 customer queries. AI helps to convert manual & repetitive activity into automation based on AI software. Also, artificial intelligence predicts production targets, future machine breakdown rates,s and many more things for industrial use.
6. Machine learning
Machine learning is a basic algorithm. It helps to improve organizational productivity in many ways, such as machine learning helps to analyze complex data in actionable form, extract meaningful information from data that is not easily done by humans, learn various activities from machine running conditions,s and provide alarming conditions on abnormal activities. Also, machine learning is help to optimize the supply chain cycle with the help of traffic pattern analysis, transportation delay analysis and roadblock cases identified & suggest best alternatives, and many more.
7. Low-cost automation
Low-cost automation is now a dayās very popular because organizational requirements are fulfilled with minimum cost. Low-cost automation is basically idea generation based on the current process & attached some mechanisms for the easiest work to fulfill the operational requirements and improve productivity.
8. Augmented reality
Augmented reality is the latest technology and it’s more powerful than virtual reality. It helps to improve worker productivity such as the usage of audio for complex task completion instead of manual, images and video from reality developed for completion of assembly and maintenance critical tasks, easily unskilled employees do critical tasks with the help of augmented reality concept. A group of workers or employees learn and interact with each other on AR concepts for advanced topics, on job training is easily provided to manpower, At the product design stage, AR helps to effectively work and reduce the cost of developing prototypes.
Conclusion
In the concluding part as per above mentioned 8 different technology types to improve organizational performance. Now organization management is able to understand manufacturing technology is changing day by day to improve productivity. If an organization is not able to run with technology its impact on production cost, chances to minimize sales and competitors are possibly shown better performance with technology. Now very important things are technology is very costly and if any organization is initially not affording that cost so at least start to apply low-cost automation and kaizen activities in internal processes to improve operational performance.