From Catavolt's Accelerating Operational Excellence in 2015 Report: Operational excellence teams are increasingly looking to work with their information technology teams to mobilize data with the purpose of alleviating data access, consumption and management challenges. The desire to deliver real-time data for better decision-making was listed as the most impactful application for mobility in a manufacturing organization. Over 80 percent of respondents believe that mobile apps for manufacturing could provide productivity gains of at least 6 percent in their operations. The majority of (55 percent) respondents are planning to increase their usage of mobile technology in 2015.

1. Accelerating Operational Excellence
in 2015: Driving Efficiency on the
Shop Floor

2. Addressing operations challenges
Catavolt launched a survey titled “How Leading Manufacturers are
Accelerating Operational Excellence” in September 2014, to gain insight on
how manufacturing organizations are working to continuously improve their
operations, workflows and business processes.
We collected 111 responses from manufacturing professionals in various
disciplines on trends and technology that are driving operational excellence.
Increased competition in the market, meeting customer expectations, rapidly
changing plant floor conditions, and the need to increase revenue, is pushing
manufacturing organizations across all industries towards more efficient
operational processes.

3. What is most critical for driving operational
excellence in manufacturing?
• Manufacturing organizations are always looking for new ways to accelerate
processes and enhance production on the shop floor
• Operational excellence initiatives can now be accelerated by utilizing real-
time data delivered to decision makers in both the supply and demand
chains
• With mobility, executive management teams can get out of the office and on
to the shop floor to coach their employees to drive efficiency.
30%
of operational excellence leaders think imple-
menting mobility would be impactful for manag-
(Catavolt, 2015)

4. Challenges on the manufacturing shop
floor
• Relying on manual processes for managing
data with paper forms and spreadsheets
that are prone to human error
• Accuracy and integrity of data and the
ability to make that data actionable
• Managing multiple shop floor locations’
materials, inventory, and shipments

5. Accelerating operational excellence on
the manufacturing shop floor
Manufacturing organizations are always looking for new ways to improve
focuses on:
• Maximizing production with the tools and people
already in place
• Facilitating better communication among teams
• Improving quality while still providing value
for the customer

6. More than managing schedules and
inventory
Mobility can be impactful for various manufacturing appli-
• Allowing for real-time, better decision making to deliver true
• Allowing for better collaboration
• Streamlining inspection processes
• Collecting diagnostic information

7. How mobility helps manufacturing
organizations
Mobility on the manufacturing shop
floor can streamline production
processes and enhance responsiveness
to customers
Mobile apps give organizations the ability to monitor
production volume and receive disruption alerts, collaborate
with teams in multiple locations, and monitor labor and
repair costs in one place, all while replacing manual, paper-
based processes.
Mobile apps give your organization the ability to monitor
production volume and receive disruption alerts, collaborate
with teams in multiple locations, and monitor labor and
repair costs in one place, all while replacing manual, paper-
based processes

8. The benefits of manufacturing apps
• Provide real-time visibility in to processes
bottom line
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of materials in real-time

9. Mobility creates customer value at every step of
the manufacturing process
Supply
Chain
Operations Fulfillment
Sales &
Marketing
Post Sale
Inventory Control
Real-time Logistics
Scheduling
Receipt Acknowledgements
Product Lead Times
Order Tracking
Scheduling Visibility
Quality Control
Dispatch Scheduling
Logistics
Route Optimization
Warehouse Automation
Work Order Approvals
Service Manuals
Service Performance
Dealer Management
Customer Dashboard
Sales Reporting
Quotes/Estimating
Competitor Intel/Analytics

10. Read our report & learn more about how
mobility drives operational excellence
Click here to view Catavolt’s “Accelerating Operational
Excellence in 2015: Trends and Technology” Report
www.catavolt.com
• The top three challenges that manufacturing
teams encounter when driving operational
excellence
• How manufacturing organizations are using
technology like mobility to accelerate their
operational excellence journey