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Digitized Lean Shop Floor – 3DLean

Innovation is at the forefront of the manufacturing industry. They are exposed to multiple challenges such as supply chain disruptions, shorter product life cycles, change in customer requirements, environmental compliances etc. Meanwhile, there are multiple opportunities to expand their footprint into multiple geographies, applications, product lines etc. These challenges and opportunities are forcing manufacturing companies to adopt transformational changes in a very short time. Fostering these innovations while managing industry growth and capturing market share requires getting new products to market as fast as possible with high quality and low cost.

In order to achieve this, you need your teams to operate like a well-oiled machine. While dealing with complex operations within many constraints, it can be all too easy to slip up through miscommunication, a lack of focus on key objectives and poor engagement from team members. This usually leads to a lot of wastage in time and productivity from all the back-and-forth communication to get your teams on track. Traditional team interactions are not truly collaborative, resulting in many missed opportunities, which is especially harmful during important phases of collaboration like problem-solving and follow-ups, leading to the creation of more operational problems.

Lean is a mindset to capitalize knowledge and know-how to improve continuously business practices and methods. Applying digital Lean practices in a company allows each team to take the right actions, cascade decisions to stakeholders, and collaborate seamlessly regardless of their role or job.

DELMIA 3DLean

DELMIA provides technology, in the form of the 3DLean Board, which digitizes and automates this process. KPIs can be displayed in real-time from digital sources, employee assignments can be done by clicking and dragging on an electronic board, tasks and issues can be documented and tracked digitally. With a “sticky note”, the note can be lost, it can only be seen by people standing in front of the board, and when the task is complete it is typically thrown away so there is no history. With the 3DLean Board, tasks/ issues are visible from anywhere (the board can be viewed and updated via a web browser), the “notes” cannot be lost, and when the task is complete or the issue is resolved, it is moved out of the active area of the board but still available in history for tracking purposes.


Benefits of 3DLean

  • Animates Lean meetings with graphically presented information
  • Merges shop floor data with human intelligence and communication
  • Simplifies communication with all relevant parties
  • Make the most of daily/ weekly team meetings
  • Easily enforce the deployment of Lean standards
  • Provide actionable feedback to management
  • Increase worker understanding of their roles and contributions

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