Achieve peak operational performance with closed loop manufacturing in heavy equipment
In today’s heavy equipment smart manufacturing, consistently delivering top-notch custom products and achieving production excellence is no longer optional—it’s essential. Closed loop manufacturing offers a powerful solution, connecting every aspect of production from design for manufacturing to delivery. By integrating real-time feedback across global teams and suppliers, manufacturers can streamline operations, optimize efficiency and ensure consistent product quality.
Be a best-in-class manufacturer in the age of innovation
Every year that passes brings new technology trends and pressure for heavy equipment manufacturers to adapt their products accordingly. An integrated supply chain, continuous improvement initiatives and data exchanges across all teams are essential to produce the next generation of heavy equipment. Solutions that provide the following benefits are needed to maintain a competitive advantage:
- Barriers removed between manufacturing engineering, planning and execution
- Streamlined business processes by taking a holistic approach
- Collaboration between engineering and execution for addressing issues and non-conformances
Connect your entire global manufacturing ecosystem
At the heart of closed loop manufacturing is the ability to make real-time adjustments across your manufacturing organization, infrastructure and activities. Design, engineering and production teams anywhere in the world need to collaborate seamlessly, using feedback from the shop floor to continuously refine their processes. To align manufacturing plans, work instructions, delivery and quality across the ecosystem and leverage feedback data, you must digitally connect all manufacturing-related activities. This comprehensive approach eliminates inefficiencies, reduces defects and ensures that products meet the highest standards of quality and sustainability, all while speeding up time-to-market.
Achieving production excellence in the face of complexity
With closed loop manufacturing, heavy equipment companies are setting new benchmarks for mixed model production excellence. The ability to adapt quickly, reduce scrap, improve efficient use of resources and deliver superior products not only improves operational performance but positions manufacturers to lead in a competitive, ever-evolving industry.
Manufacturing process planning and manufacturing execution system software must be part of a smart manufacturing closed-loop approach to achieve full visibility, traceability and continuous improvement of your production processes.
In a complex global ecosystem, you need thorough digitalization of all your processes to meet your goals and achieve the highest standards. In Siemens Xcelerator™, our open digital business platform of software and services accessible as a cloud-based SaaS solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, we bundled all the necessary capabilities to digitally connect all manufacturing stakeholders, including partners and suppliers. Deploy closed loop manufacturing, build manufacturing intelligence, make smart decisions and achieve zero-defect manufacturing everywhere.
In a world that demands more from manufacturers than ever before, closed loop manufacturing isn’t just the key to success—it’s the blueprint for the future.
Ready to dive into closed loop manufacturing solutions? Below are resources developed exclusively for heavy equipment manufacturers:
Ebook: Enable closed-loop manufacturing to achieve zero-defect smart manufacturing
Resource Library: Manufacturing process planning for heavy equipment
Resource library: Heavy equipment manufacturing execution systems
Blog: Smart manufacturing for heavy equipment
Free trial: Manufacturing process planning
Free trial: Scheduling standard
