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. The digital manufacturing (Industry 4.0) capability provides full visibility to your manufacturing processes and enables digital thread, digital twin and digital supply chain models.
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 digitally enabled environment, our DXC Smart Factory provides better data, analytics and infrastructure. A fully automated and integrated smart factory brings new digital capabilities and cost reduction.
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 Industrial 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. We help you with services that assess, design and implement smart factory roadmaps, reference architectures, process transformation (PLM, MES, SCM) and governance models.
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.
DXC Smart Factory focuses on defining, implementing and managing your digital manufacturing platforms, and then integrating them with machines, operators and processes. As we run and maintain your operations, DXC provides continuous support of your integrated smart factory platform.
DXC partnerships
Our technology independence and unique approach for assessing, engaging and managing our partners allow us to quickly combine the best skills and technologies into complete solutions that leverage our partners’ R&D investments. We work closely with partners such as PTC, SAP 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.
Why DXC?
DXC is uniquely positioned to execute complex projects covering single or multiple geographies. We combine our deep industry experience and detailed knowledge of use cases with enterprise-scale deployments of leading A&D MES and supply chain solutions. Our global presence means we can easily integrate and scale multiple consulting and technology partners and assets.