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Meeting and fulfilling all the requirements of logistics and production activities is a desired goal, but also a major challenge for many companies. Digital technologies provide an important foundation, opening up new possibilities as a unified concept. With its software Visual Shop Floor, the software developer Solunio makes an important contribution by presenting the entire shop floor management on a central platform. In addition to pure data management and visualization, Visual Shop Floor also serves as a collaboration platform to plan and execute collaboration more effectively and in a more structured manner: The coordination between data and work activities is indeed a decisive factor for process optimization. Lean management within production contributes to avoiding errors and deviations. For this purpose, Solunio has integrated Layered Process Audits as well as PDCA cycles into the software, two functions from the area of root cause analysis and problem-solving procedures, in order to improve processes continuously and in the long term.
Digitalization and shop floor management are two factors that are becoming increasingly important for industrial companies and, above all, should not be considered separately. For this reason, Solunio combines both aspects and reflects them in its Visual Shop Floor software. Collecting, preparing and visualizing data are important basics, but mapping the entire shop floor management in a single software platform goes far beyond that. In addition to data preparation and visualization, Visual Shop Floor also makes it possible to use meetings and task management to improve the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, lean tools in digital form offer the possibility of continuously optimizing processes and avoiding errors through preventive detection and elimination of deviations and disruptions.
In many companies, not all data is used efficiently within production. It is important to collect all existing data in a central platform in order to derive important information and key figures from it. Visual Shop Floor brings together the scattered data from the systems via simple interfaces. In order to work efficiently with this data, a simple and visual representation is required. The software provides this with the creation of appropriate dashboards as well as a digital hall mirror, which are available to employees as a source of information via info boards in the production halls as well as on various end devices.
Making the right decisions in the shortest possible time is a key success factor for optimizing processes. Moreover, to ensure that the defined measures can also be successfully implemented, efficient coordination between employees is required. Here, Visual Shop Floor acts as a collaboration platform that supports collaboration with the help of structured meeting scheduling as well as organized task management. Prioritizing tasks and assigning them to the right people ensures efficient work execution.
In order to identify and avoid waste, errors and unnecessary costs within the processes, lean management offers systematic approaches. A continuous improvement process can be ensured through various methods. Visual Shop Floor offers the possibility to continuously optimize processes through Layered Process Audits or PDCA cycles. With systematic root cause analysis and structured problem solving procedures, improvement potentials are identified and sustainably utilized.
Having access to data and information anytime and anywhere helps employees and management to react quickly to problems and deviations. As a web-based software, Visual Shop Floor can be easily accessed via various end devices. In addition to enabling a quick response, this also improves collaboration. Furthermore, the software platform can be used to monitor information across multiple locations and also to establish uniform processes in shop floor management across locations.
“Visual Shop Floor is used in almost 30 plants around the world and is an indispensable tool for providing our employees with targeted information, recognizing potential faults before they occur and deriving the right actions from them.”