The smart factory captures and presents key operational, machine, and human tasking data, transforming it into actionable information and rich intelligence that leads to better production operations, maintenance, quality and inventory processes.
DXC Technology helps our clients understand and realize the financial and productivity benefits of introducing new smart manufacturing technologies. Through the fast-track delivery of a digital manufacturing (Industry 4.0) capability using our DXC Smart Factory templated approach, clients can deploy agile delivery to introduce new digital capabilities.
Benefits of a smart factory approach
Each stage of smart factory implementation delivers greater value and data driven decision-making capabilities to the aerospace manufacturing operation. Digitally connected processes (digitalization) and decision making, powered by advanced technologies such as IoT in manufacturing, analytics, agile methods, and a collaborative partner ecosystem are key components of smart manufacturing. Together, this new environment leads to major improvements in manufacturing output, better quality and improved on-time delivery.
DXC aerospace manufacturing client outcomes include:
- Manufacturing output: Doubled and related revenues in 2.5 years with existing machinery and resources.
- On-time delivery: Increased from 40% to 95%
- WIP inventory: Reduced 15% in 2 months
- Out-of-stocks: Reduced by 25%
- Acceptance rate: Improved by using advanced analytics that reduced cost of poor quality by more than $20 million over 5 years
Count on a proven smart factory partner
DXC Aerospace & Defense subject matter experts in UK, North America, France, Germany, Sweden and Australia specialize in working with our clients’ shop floor operators and management team to ensure the business benefits of a smart factory are realized. Also vital in digital transformation are DXC’s solution adoption methods that ease the transition to the smart factory future state where culture, mindset and multi-dimensional information present new challenges for our aerospace manufacturing clients.
DXC experts help aerospace companies streamline the manufacturing process, improve product availability and throughput, and profitably launch new programs by adopting the DXC Smart Factory and digital thread concepts to the Design-Manufacture-Service model. Our sprint-based roadmaps enable clients to start small and gradually enhance their smart manufacturing capabilities, leveraging DXC’s scale, track record and rich partner ecosystem.
We work closely with partners such as PTC and iBASEt to deliver the smart factory. As an example, we are the world’s largest Solumina systems integrator. From an initial roadmap to end-to-end delivery capability, DXC experts tailor systems to your operations, deploy and maintain them in the right cloud model (private/hybrid/public) and accelerate your time to value.