About 40% of companies CEO said they were confident about their profit growth potential in the next 12 months – PwC’s CEO survey report: technological trend, 2019.
It won’t be an exaggeration to say we are the age where almost everything we want or need is at our finger-tips. Ranging from the manufacturing sector to hospitality, health, and finance, mobile technology is gaining big grounds.
Mobile technology is revolutionizing the manufacturing sector. There are a series of impacts that the mobile world is making in our production sector. We cannot exhaust the impacts yet you will be exposed to some.
Optimization of production resources
with on-going projects, services, and resources, manufacturers can keep record and track of their existing resources maximally. Mobile technology helps to maintain the resources and also enhance productivity.
Decision making
you would want to ask how the connection between mobile technology and decision making in the manufacturing firms. Mobile devices allow the manufacturing sector to have access to real-time mobile platforms. These platforms enable them to know about real data on which the industry can make rapt analysis and decision. There are software devices that make this possible and some are Manufacturing Execution System and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.
What kind of devices are they? The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is fantastic software that helps to track, computes and records conversion of materials (raw) into finished goods. This is a great development as manufacturers now know the state of every stage of processes in their industries. Another good software associated is SCADA. This is a software that allows manufacturing industries to monitor and regulate production processes in different locations. With these electronic devices, manufacturing industries can collate, garner, and process the data which are normally collated manually. With that, time and stress spent on data entry are saved.
Production progress notification
Don’t forget that manufacturing processes are in stages and monitoring all these stages can be tiring. Modern manufacturing sectors have now embraced software that reports the progress of their production. This software gives updates on every stage of the production process which is interesting. Manufacturing intelligent machine-use is on the rise as machine level of compliance can be tracked and monitored on timely bases. Alerts can also be made when there is a default in the functioning of those machines so as to ensure that quality productions are being made.
Analytics in the cost of production
Mobile devices enable predictive analysis of different cost metrics in production. Don’t forget, data is everywhere, and manufacturing intelligence is making use of the data collected to make a quality prediction on cost analysis, defective monitoring and comparative financials.
Quick response time
Since data are collected and stored, the sales manager do not need to reach out anymore before getting prices, policy, and facts about goods – thanks to mobility technology. Furthermore, quotation for goods and services can be generated and sent to customers or vendors right on the spot and transactions and confirmations can be made easily and quickly using the devices.
This is the time for manufacturing industries to expand because mobile technology is available to help. Embracing mobility into production requires a significant investment in the areas of both operation and capital. IT staff will be needed to collect data, analyze and interpret data. This is becoming essential as manufacturers that fail to embrace this modern technology is bound to fail out in the completive race.
