book

Digital Transformation in Your Manufacturing Business

Name: Digital Transformation in Your Manufacturing Business
Author: Will Kinghorn
ISBN: 9781040025680

by Will Kinghorn

June 2024

Beginner to intermediate

184 pages

4h 18m

English

CRC Press

Read now

Unlock full access

Cover
Endorsement
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What Is Digitalisation? How to Use THIS Book What Is Made Smarter in the UK? Note Bibliography
Chapter 1 Establishing Your Company’s Purpose
Digital Transformation What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Company Strategy/Business Plan/Business Model What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Technology Strategy/Technology Roadmap What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Metrics What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Building a Business Case What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Net Zero What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Notes Bibliography

Chapter 2 People and Workforce
Roles and Responsibilities What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Succession Planning What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Change Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Employee Retention What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Mentors What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Workforce Engagement What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Skills Matrix What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Bibliography
Chapter 3 The Technologies
Industry 4.0 What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D Printing What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Types of Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing Processes Material Extrusion Directed Energy Deposition Powder Bed Fusion Binder Jetting Material Jetting Sheet Lamination Vat Polymerisation Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Big Data What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Automation What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Robotics What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Vision Systems and Machine Vision What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Warehouse Automation What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Cybersecurity What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Customer Relationship Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Customer Portals What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Data Dashboards and Business Intelligence Software What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Finance Software What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Logistics Planning What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Order Tracking What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Production Planning What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Quality Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Resource Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Sales or Demand Forecasting What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Shop Floor Data Capture What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Stock or Inventory Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Blockchain What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms 3D Scanning What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms 4G and 5G Networks or Private Networks What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Including Simulation and Design Automation What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Cloud Computing What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Building Information Modelling (BIM) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Energy Monitoring What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Key Process Variable (KPV) Control What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Barcoding What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Waste Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Extended Reality What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Digital Twin What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Factory Simulation, Process Simulation, and Human Factors Simulation What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Smart Glasses What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Virtual Reality (VR) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Notes Bibliography
Chapter 4 Tools and Techniques
5S What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Design of Experiments (DoE) and Statistical Analysis What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Lean Manufacturing What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Process Input/Output Diagram What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Process Map What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Value Stream Map (VSM) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Project Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Agile Project Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Network Diagram What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Gantt Chart What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Risk Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Time Management What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Requirements Capture – Hardware What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Requirements Capture – Software What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Acceptance Testing for Equipment What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Software Architecture Diagram What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms User Stories What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Research Centres and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Where to Find Funding What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Where to Go for Technical Support What Is It? How Do I Do It? What Are the Benefits and Limitations? Useful Search Terms Notes Bibliography
Chapter 5 Tools vs Technology Matrix, and Common Issues
Tools vs Technology Matrix What Is It? How Do I Do It? Common Issues and Suggested Steps Company Information Is on Different Systems That Don’t Talk to Each Other Current Software Systems Are Out of Date or Unsupported Energy Costs Are Too High Keeping Track of Material or Stock Is Time Consuming Keeping Track of Orders Is Difficult Paper Systems Cause a Lot of Errors or Are Time Consuming It’s Difficult to Manage a Large Number of Product Variants Our Systems Require a Lot of Repetitive Data Entry Do I Need a Single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System or Individual Services? Skilled Staff Spend a Lot of Time Performing Unskilled Tasks Supply Chain Lead Times Are Too Long We Don’t Know How Much Our Products Cost to Make or Which Are Profitable Staff Don’t Have Quick Access to Information They Need I Don’t Have Enough Time to Spend on Important Tasks I Don’t Know Which Project to Prioritise Critical Company Knowledge Sits with One Person or Key People Are Approaching Retirement It Is Difficult to Recruit and Retain Staff or We Have a High Staff Turnover It’s Difficult to Schedule Production or Production Plans Are Never Met We Have High Scrap or Rework Levels We Don’t Know How Efficient Production Is Production Is Repetitive or Manual Creating Quotes for Customised Products Is Time Consuming Demonstrating Products to Potential Customers Is Expensive Keeping in Touch with Customers Is Difficult
Glossary
NotesBibliography
Index

Content preview from Digital Transformation in Your Manufacturing Business

Chapter 5Tools vs Technology Matrix, and Common Issues

DOI: 10.1201/9781032642215-6

Tools vs Technology Matrix

What Is It?

It is a look up table to match technologies with the appropriate tools which will be useful in scoping the right solution and implementing it correctly. See Figure 5.1.

How Do I Do It?

Find the technology that you’re interested in implementing along the top of the table and follow the column down to see which tools and techniques will help you with the project. A copy is included in the online resources section.

Where a tool is marked with • it means this is strongly recommended to make the project a success.

Where a tool is marked with ° it means this could be useful, depending on the project.

Where a tool is marked ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.

Julian F.

Head of Cybersecurity

I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.

Addison B.

Field Engineer

I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.

Amir M.

Data Platform Tech Lead

I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.

Mark W.

Embedded Software Engineer

The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781040025680

Cloud Computing

Data Engineering

Data Science

AI & ML

Programming Languages

Software Architecture

IT/Ops

Security

Design

Business

Soft Skills

Digital Transformation in Your Manufacturing Business

by Will Kinghorn

Chapter 5Tools vs Technology Matrix, and Common Issues