Against the backdrop of a challenging market environment, adapting existing and planning new value streams is becoming a challenge for manufacturing companies. Critical, especially since the value stream method has established itself as the gold standard of production optimization in the past. NEONEX Digital Value Stream Design enables a new level of holism and detail for value stream mapping and value stream design.
The market environment for industrial companies is more challenging than ever before: Many companies are planning capacity reductions or footprint optimizations in order to maintain their profitability. Some growth industries are building up new capacities and want to delay investments as much as possible and be able to compare variants and technologies when planning new production lines. For all companies, this increases complexity and variance, making transparency, overview and ultimately the strategy for change a challenge. NEONEX Digital Value Stream Design combines the advantages of the classic value stream method with those of digitalization, enabling you to adapt to these challenges.
Digital Value Stream Design uses a data model to create a holistic and exact image (digital shadow) of all value streams in your company ( even across plant boundaries), which can then be used to analyze the current situation and simulate or calculate future scenarios. Regardless of whether you want to increase or reduce capacity, gain transparency over complex production systems or achieve significant efficiency gains: Together with you, we develop a future overall optimum that considers all value streams and resources.
Together with you, we define the scope of the project in terms of the required data, its format, scope and quality. Your ERP or MES experts then collect the required data and make it available. Our data analysts subsequently cleanse the data and upload it to the NEONEX Value Stream Designer.
In the next step, we collect and analyze your data for the value stream design. Particularly important are the bills of materials, routings, movement data, target times, utilization data, bottlenecks and data on your plants from your ERP system. We supplement this data, if available, with sales forecasts, piece count (fluctuations) from the last year and real-time data from your MES system.
Together with you, we verify the processes identified by the software and complete the process connections (WIP, supermarket, etc.). We then decide whether the value stream mapping is correct + complete and the project can start. We then work with you to define the product families for easier consideration.
Together, we define the exact challenges in your specific situation. Our analysis of the value stream performance and the various scenarios that have been developed builds on this. On this basis, cause/solution hypotheses are developed and the potentials and expenses identified are evaluated.
In the management team, we make the final decision on the planned value stream changes and planning alternatives together. To this end, measures are defined in the categories of quick wins and long-term projects. Finally, responsibilities and roadmaps are defined.
The advantage of our data-based approach based on your master and transaction data from ERP and MES systems is that we can work with you to look at your entire product portfolio and all systems - i.e. all value streams and not just substitutes. As a result, we can work with you to analyze an exact, holistic picture - the digital shadow of your value streams - and thus guarantee greater accuracy with a lower error rate.
Thanks to our experience in implementation, we also help you to implement the results of the digital value stream design with you on site and ensure acceptance among your employees through our change management.
The data required for a digital value stream design is kept to a minimum. This minimum requirement can be found in the following list. If required, the data model can be further enriched with more detailed data from ERP and MES systems.
Through our data-based approach, we achieve results with you quickly & reliably, eliminating errors that occurred in the past through proxy planning. We also support you in the successful implementation of your value stream design through consistent change management.
Make your value streams fit for the future. Decide on the production optimization of the future with NEONEX Digital Value Stream Design.
Have we aroused your interest? We would be happy to check with you whether your data allows for Digital Value Stream Design. Simply book an appointment with Dr. Jochen Schlick.
