DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
BUILDING BLOCKS

By: sedApta

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3D Visualisation tool applies to all modules

BENEFITS:

• Eliminate poor quality data
• Benefit from accurate predictive analysis
• Increase usability and business efficiency

OVERVIEW: Master Data Management helps manage your product definitions, process plans, bills of material, and failure categories.  With this solution, companies that do not want to use an additional ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) can benefit from integrated management of their specifications.  

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Repository
Repository of available process plans, process steps, materials, and consumables
Support
Support of multiple process plans per product workflow
Product versions
Released and non-released product versions 

BENEFITS:

• Increase process integrity 
• Manage approval cycles 
• Minimise the number of recipes to manage 
• Standardise the recipe workflows 

OVERVIEW: Establish an integrated management of all manufacturing workflows that deal with the creation, centralised handling, and life cycle management of recipes. Increase operational efficiency and flexibility by reducing product changeover time and enforces product quality and repeatability through parameter download and procedure automation. The Recipe Management module helps you avoid misconfiguration and thereby reduces the risk of misprocessing.  

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Recipe lifecycle
Complete recipe life cycle, approval workflows for new or updated recipes
Transparency
Full transparency of parameters by visualisation of values with smart compare capabilities and seamless traceability by versioning
Protection
Assured IP protection for product definitions
Support
R&Dsupport with version branches, support for Run-to-Run Control (R2R) rules 

By: sedApta

BENEFITS:

• Create feasible and optimised production plans 
• Synchronise the whole supply chain 
• Remove production bottlenecks 
• Promptly react against perturbative events 

OVERVIEW: Our Factory Scheduling module is a tool that supports managers in creating, visualising, and refining the production plan in compliance with production capacity constraints and compatibility of the parts to be produced. By integrating scheduling with planning, you can eliminate guesswork and meet your production commitments on time. Accelerate your ability to create better production schedules while optimising factory resources, increasing manufacturing efficiency, and exceeding customer expectations. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Production plan
The tool allows you to automatically create and manually update the production plan, defining the optimal sequence while respecting all constraints
Algorithms
The tool comes with an automatic scheduling algorithm, and supports customised plug-in algorithms
Data forcing
Data forcing can be done during the production plan analysis phase, intervening directly on Web Scheduling reports to manually reposition work order activities, as well as to manage plan adjustments in real time 

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BENEFITS:

• Avoid any misprocessing on the shop floor 
• Consolidate all production processes and data to drive continuous improvement 
• Improve manufacturing process 

OVERVIEW: Monitoring production processes activities become more and more critical in manufacturing due to increasing number of factors that need to be monitored and managed promptly. With the help of Shop Floor Control module, you manage and control each processing unit in shop floor as preconfigured process flow and process steps. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Live monitoring
Ensure all processing transactions follow the defined process flow and process step requirements Quality check
Real-time quality check upon check-out of processing Operational scheduling
Manage operational scheduling and documentation of each production resource, from planning to execution

BENEFITS:

• Keep track of material movements  
• Overview main data definitions 
• Stock management 
• Complement ERP system with more detailed material information 

OVERVIEW: The Material Management module helps you manage all material for your shop floor needs, such as: raw materials, consumables, spare parts, durables, semi-finished goods, and finished goods.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Suppliers
Contextual connection with suppliers
Materials
Supporting use of different materials in production
Expiry date care
Humidity-based expiry date management  

BENEFITS:

• Monitor all transport carriers 
• Traceability down to the smallest unit 
• Keep the transport of material firmly under control

OVERVIEW: With the Carrier Management module, you can efficiently and completely track all movements of transport carriers used in a supply chain. The system supports the clearly traceable handling of groupings and regroupings, as well as, nested groupings. Release mechanisms and functions for merging and separating carriers help you efficiently keep the transport of material firmly under control, down to the smallest identifiable unit. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Tracking
Tracking of all transport carrier movement, as well as having access to carrier movement history
Managing container lifecycle
Stock and container lifecycle management with reservation and location management
Support
Supports multi-layer carrier’s traceability

BENEFITS:

• Fast and efficient reporting on different time scales 
• Independent (from OLTP system) reporting that does not interfere with shop floor productivity 
• Lean recalls 
• Long-term trend on corporate sustainability measures 

OVERVIEW: Manufacturing Data Warehouse is designed for fast investigations and decision findings that does not require checking huge amounts of manufacturing data within minutes. The module enables interactive analyses with fast queries and reports over longer periods of time as required, for example, to assess and document trends, for lean recall actions, or to prove sustainability.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Managing big data
Keeping the history of manufacturing data available, typically for compliance reasons
Cross-site comparison / configurable KPI items
Setting KPIs (key performance indicators) inside organisations makes service levels of all your production sites measurable and comparable among each other 
Independent integration
The module can be operated together with any Manufacturing Execution System (MES) 

BENEFITS:

• Reduce administrative costs associated with managing assets 
• Gain visibility over the company’s equipment landscape 
• Centralise data without requiring manual data entry 
• Gain efficient asset lifecycle management 

OVERVIEW: Asset Management is a database of assets including asset information, documentation, guides, equipment collected data, and asset reports. It consists of the activities and practices tracking the work of company’s assets and effectively using those assets to gain value. Asset Management consolidates asset data from all departments, so that real-time information is always available for effective decision-making. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Asset tracking
Asset management centralises asset data to make tracking assets easier
Real-time asset reporting
Asset Management provides real-time data updates and visually simplifies interpretation of complied data
Asset check-in and check-out
Check-in and check-out feature provides an opportunity to track the asset as it moves across departments
Asset information
Document asset information in one place to support equipment lifecycle management. 

BENEFITS:

• Reduce the number of downtimes and related costs 
• Optimise the business asset lifecycle 
• Gain full control over all maintenance activities 
• Increase operating efficiency 

OVERVIEW: Maintenance Management is used to design how to execute and track maintenance tasks with checklists to ensure equipment is well–maintained and inspected in a timely manner.  You can choose between time-based, condition-based, unplanned when incidents occur, and predictive maintenance. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Current state tracking
Visible current equipment state before the start of the maintenance flow
Checklists
Support comprehensive checklist management
Smart assistant
Tracking of ad hoc repair tasks with smart assistant 

3D Visualisation tool applies to all modules

BENEFITS:

• All relevant information in one view for better decision making
• Cutting-edge usability to navigate data coming from the shop floor
• Web-browser optimised for great visual quality

OVERVIEW: 3D Visualisation is a powerful toolset to create Digital Twin applications. Our 3D engine enables our customers to show various shop floor information in their respective context for easy and quick decision making. Create and maintain your 3D renderings easily with our self-servicable modelling tools.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Digital Twin
Live view into your shop floor operations

Easy Navigation
Navigate your shop floor with our high-level view, and drill down to the areas that need management attention

Flexibility
We support any various kinds of data, and have a wide range of visualisation options to meet your needs in a digital twin app

BENEFITS:

• Identify all possible risks
• Analyse and mitigate risks
• Take corrective and preventive actions  
• Clear audit trail

OVERVIEW: Risk Management is about identifying, assessing and responding to risk factors within your business. Well-executed Risk Management reduces both the possible occurrence and the potential negative impact of a risk. Our Risk Management module is an easy to use, 100% paperless solution. It is the perfect software for identifying, analysing, and eliminating, to the highest degree, any risk that might constitute a danger to the health and safety of your workers.  

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Reaction
Fast response when accidents occur 
Actions
Good overview of actions taken and the effects of those actions, automated action tracking 
Integration
Integration with other modules and reporting tools  
Risk analysis and risk reduction
Risk classification and assessment, support of several risk management methods, approvals and validations 

BENEFITS:

• Reduce incident rates 
• Increase reported and solved incidents and near-misses 
• Increase tracked and completed preventive and corrective actions 

OVERVIEW: Incidents management is about capturing, reporting, and keeping track of all incidents and near-misses in a plant or organisation. Our Incidents Management module makes it easier to develop and implement a clear plan and procedure for incident registration and investigations. It allows you to keep track of any incident or near-miss in your facility and stay compliant with integrated reporting tools and overviews. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Instant report and notifications
Report incidents and near-misses on the spot, always keep the right people in the loop 
Investigations
Perform in-depth investigations on time and retrieve data from multiple sources to identify the underlying root causes of incidents to put in place corrective and preventive actions 
Approval and workflows
Adjust pre-defined or event-type specific approval and workflows 
Reporting and analysis
Enables flexible reporting and analysis 
Compliance
Easily improve data traceability to keep a clean audit trail for regulators 

BENEFITS:

• Centralise audit data
• Standardise your audit process
• Streamline audit-related tasks 
• Cover more areas to be inspected
• Gain visibility into audit performance 

OVERVIEW: Audits play a key role in keeping the shop floor a safe working space, avoiding unwanted events, and making sure risk management and regulatory compliance programs are effective. As the operational complexities and regulatory requirements are growing each day, the volume of audits is also steadily increasing. Our Audits and Observations module allows you to increase the number of audits done by the same team, as well as to cover more areas to be inspected without increasing the number of people onboard. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Organise the process
Map all auditable entities and common libraries of risks and controls and manage the relationship between them 
Plan and prepare
Organise audits based on priorities with detailed checklists and templates based on your business processes, evaluation pass or fail criteria and tasks for execution 
Execute
Record findings, attach detailed observations, and add recommendations in predefined formats and templates 
Follow up of issues and non-conformities
Define an action plan and track the corrective and preventive actions to closure 
Task management
Enable audit managers to create actions, assign them to the team and monitor their status 
Real-time reports
Configurable audit dashboards display charts, graphs, and tables to quickly identify trends 

BENEFITS:

• Minimise the risk for human errors 
• Maintain 100% audit preparedness 
• Save time on administrative tasks 
• Create a safe working environment for employees and contractors 

OVERVIEW: A good permit to work system prevents incidents by ensuring that everyone clearly understands and easily manages the risks involved in any work. At the same time, it allows you to eliminate unnecessary manual work, making processes safer and more efficient. With automated Permit to Work and Lockout-tagout (LoTo) processes you reduce operational risks and eliminate manual work.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Storage
Library storage of Permit to Work templates to maximise reusability and searchability 
Automation
Automated alerts, escalations and email notification based on safety-centric workflows, also fully automated and controlled authorisations, and workflows 
Reports
Real-time dashboards and reports  
Task management
Automated task management and action tracking 
Risk assessments
Integrated risk assessments, isolation certificates and LoTo features

BENEFITS:

• Manage changes in a controlled and safe way
• Mitigate risks and hazards 
• Simplify compliance 
• Gain visibility in the change process 
• Achieve operational excellence 

OVERVIEW: Change can always make your plant more vulnerable to risk, compliance issues and hazardous events. However, avoiding change will lead to stagnation, loss in efficiency and revenue. Elisa IndustrIQ provides comprehensive capabilities to help in mitigating risk without sacrificing efficiency. Changes in production processes, equipment and products can be implemented in a controlled and safe manner without causing unnecessary production stops. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Preparation
Route change request evaluation, review, and approval to relevant stakeholders 
Classification
Define the classification procedure  
Execution and tracking
Assign and track change execution tasks with due dates 
Verification and closure
Evaluate change outcomes 
Analysis and reporting
Enable aggregate reporting and individual case tracking

BENEFITS:

• Enable 24/7 shift communication 
• Move on from pen and paper 
• Boost operational efficiency 
• Make sure work gets done correctly and safely 

OVERVIEW:

When your workforce is distributed throughout different shifts or (partly) working remotely, it is crucial that communication between supervisors, employees, and contractors is transparent and clear. Our Shift Management module is an easy tool to manage different types of shifts. It guarantees clean shift relief and handovers and assists you in planning and scheduling employee shifts without complications. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Electronic shift logs and handovers
Automatically deliver key information to help the next shift to operate the plant safely, take real-time action on instantly reported events
 Monitor and report 
Monitor centralised daily shift data and supervisor log with user dashboards and real-time reports 
Daily instructions and night letters  
Electronically manage KPIs, actions and instructions 
Production tasks management 
Plan, create and automatically assign actions and recurring production tasks 
Integration
Integration with plant information and alerting systems 

BENEFITS:

• Monitor employee skill sets  
• Automate skill management  
• Gain total visibility on skills and competences  

OVERVIEW: Effective and automated Competence Management creates a real-time and predictive inventory of the capability of any workforce. Our Competence Management module creates a real-time and predictive inventory of your workforce capabilities, that allows you to monitor employee skill sets, plan and follow up refresher trainings and certificate updates.  

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Plan
Create a skill matrix and record employees’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes  
Review
Centralised overview of all data connected to a certain employee  
Report
Different types of training can be registered and followed up on, allowing easy reporting on who has followed which track

BENEFITS:

• Keep contractors productive and safe 
• Ensure contractor compliance  
• Decrease time spent on administrative follow-up  
• Decrease volume of outdated documents  

OVERVIEW:

Contractor Management takes care of all the necessary documents to ensure contractors’ safety and the compliance of your company. The Contractor Management module efficiently manages all your contractors, so they become and stay productive and safe members of your workforce.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Visibility 
Gain full visibility with built-in overviews and reports, centralise and store all contractor files  
Templates 
Define and distribute templates for compliance   
Qualification 
Standardise the qualification process and create a predefined roadmap for it  
Communication 
Streamline communication with your contractors 

BENEFITS:

• Manage customer feedback and interaction
• Identify emerging trends  
• Follow a custom workflow  
• Manage improvement projects  

OVERVIEW: Take advantage of customer feedback to continuously improve your products and services. The Complaint Management module helps you to manage customer interaction and ensure that the right people are kept in the loop.

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Record 
Record and track new complaints  
Notify
Send a notification each time a new complaint is received and ensure that the right people are kept in the loop  
Share
Share information across the entire organisation  
Follow up
Specify preventive and corrective actions 

BENEFITS:

• Automate REACH-related processes 
• Maintain compliance 
• Mitigate chemical risks 

OVERVIEW: Chemicals Management considers the whole product lifecycle process, from end to end. It analyses, supports, automates, and monitors the REACH-related processes and provisions. The result is a smooth and effortless process providing companies with an edge in today’s competitive business environment. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Monitor
Keep track of your suppliers’ preregistrations and (Material) Safety Data Sheets 
Overview
Chemicals Management gives you a configurable overview of all products and suppliers stored in your platform 
Organise process
Manage REACH compliance process, define custom filters, log action items 

BENEFITS:

• Improve energy efficiency 
• Keep track of your waste, emissions, energy, and water consumption 
• Comply with regulations 
• Reduce environmental impact from emissions 
• Centralise environmental data across departments and sites

OVERVIEW: The best way to achieve your environmental goals is through consistent review, evaluation, and improvement of your environmental performance. With the Environmental Reporting module, you gain insights and ensure compliance by embedding environmental, social and energy objectives into your daily operations. 

MAIN CAPABILITIES:

Collect data
Track resources, emissions, and waste 
Set objectives
Provide a clear view on activities that might impact environmental concerns 
Compliance
Assure full compliance and set up with ISO 14001 standard in mind 
Consider expectations
Embed the environmental, social, and energy expectations into daily operations