Factory Intelligence: Digitising your production

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Factory Intelligence is a modular and customisable manufacturing analytics suite, which uniquely combines existing production and IT systems and provides pre-configured and pre-built applications leveraging PwC’s business and problem-solving expertise.

Benefits

360° view on the production network

Create a central entry point for all relevant KPIs, alerts and actions within the production network.

Digitally mapping your production process

Critical or cost-intensive production steps can be simulated and, if necessary, adjusted to increase production efficiency.

Improve existing systems with AI

Identify inefficiencies in the value creation process to eliminate waste in the production process and increase efficiency.

Increase transparency

Early detection of quality problems through automated correlation of production parameters and product quality, as well as proactive suggestions of corrective actions.

The idea behind Factory Intelligence

The manufacturing analytics solution builds on PwC's multidisciplinary expertise to help our clients address the big and complex challenges of Industry 4.0.

Sectoral, Business and Process expertise of Smart Manufacturing, Smart Factory, Predictive Maintenance, Digitised Production etc.

01Best Practices

Sectoral, Business and Process expertise of Smart Manufacturing, Smart Factory, Predictive Maintenance, Digitised Production etc.

In the Spotlight

Plant Manager, Automotive Supplier

“Factory Intelligence is centred on a set of dashboards that matter and analytics capabilities that drive results and ensure fast ROI for our initiatives. It has the DNA for driving results through AI, analytics and process integration that is missing from most Smart Factory software solutions on the market.”

Intelligent maintenance

Avoid downtimes and integrate predictive maintenance into an intelligent process - from fault reporting to paperless recording of the maintenance measure.

Production analyses

Identify reasons for deviations in production and independently carry out error analyses. Here, Factory Intelligence supports you with intelligent consequential error and cause analysis and the use of artificial intelligence.

Dashboards that matter

Create a single point of entry for all relevant KPIs, alerts and actions within the production network and the ability for any staff member to create personalised dashboards and analytics without specialist technical expertise.

Pricing

Factory Intelligence Connect - PILOT

Implementation of a Connect use case
Use of available standard connectors
Preconfigured dashboards and reports
Implementation project over 3 - 4 weeks

€ 75,000

one-time

Factory Intelligence Optimize - PILOT

All benefits of the "Factory Intelligence Connect" package
Implementation of an Optimise use case
Data preparation, cleansing and visualisation
Integration as an independent Micro-App in Factory Intelligence
Implementation project over 4 - 8 weeks

€ 150,000

one-time

Factory Intelligence Transformation

Evaluation of the digital maturity level of the selected location
Identification of critical bottlenecks in your production
Agile implementation on the basis of Factory Intelligence
Ongoing evaluation and improvement of the results
Consulting project over 12 - 36 weeks

Price on request

FAQ

How do plant managers benefit from Factory Intelligence?

Significant KPIs across all divisions and plants
Global reporting on a common Production System KPI model
Flexibility in exploring data of his organisation
Observe effects of global initiatives and how the affect the KPIs
Answer questions without the need to contact the IT department

How do quality managers benefit from Factory Intelligence?

Increase product quality and minimise re-work efforts
Identify root causes
Supplier, Customer and in-line quality in real time
Specific quality KPIs
Personalised reports and dashboards that matter
Trigger actions on quality alerts

How do maintenance experts benefit from Factory Intelligence?

Fully digitalised maintenance process
Real-time and historical asset status
Schedule time and employees for planned and unplanned maintenance
Predictive maintenance
Recommendation of maintenance plans and provision of all necessary documents
Real-time alerts and easy-to-understand working instructions

How do operations excellence experts benefit from Factory Intelligence?

Transparency across the value chain to identify wastes and inefficiency lags
CI initiatives and projects and their impact on the KPIs
Real time value stream
Analytics of the value stream on historical data

How do operations engineering data scientists benefit from Factory Intelligence?

Easy accessible raw-data
Correct and accurate information about unknown and new pattern
Investigate failure and anomaly effects on the shop floor performance
Detect quality issues and explore root causes for them