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Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President,
Planning and Operations at AVEVA
AVEVA, a global leader in
engineering and industrial
software, has unveiled its new
Discrete Lean Management
software to support Digital Transformation
in the discrete manufacturing market.
The new offering improves operational
efficiency through the digitalisation of lean
work management for both manual and
automated production lines. AVEVA’s quickto-deploy
and easy to use digital tools enable
access to production information, KPIs and
notifications on dashboards, workstations and
mobile devices to improve overall equipment
and labour effectiveness, and to facilitate
data-driven continuous improvement.
AVEVA Discrete Lean Management is
designed to address the issues faced by
operating manufacturing plants still using
paper-based systems for lean and work order
management, work instructions and data
collection procedures. It enables physical
records to be replaced with digital tools that
mitigate the risk of manual processes and
provides real time visibility into production
performance allowing team collaboration in
response to production issues.
Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President,
Planning and Operations at AVEVA, said:
“AVEVA Discrete Lean Management is
the result of our close collaboration with
Schneider-Electric and has been already
successfully deployed as a digital lean
system to many of their plants globally.
“We are excited to be able to announce the
general availability of these proven lean and
industry best practices to all our customers
to help improve their manufacturing
productivity and profitability, and also
jumpstart their smart manufacturing and
Digital Transformation journeys.”
Yielding successful results
in Schneider Electric
Manufacturing Plants
The AVEVA Discrete Lean Management
software solution is used in Schneider
Electric’s manufacturing plants and has
been successfully deployed in more than
70 smart factories globally resulting in a
10% productivity increase due to downtime
mitigation and 70% improved responsetime
due to automated escalation of
production issues.
The World Economic Forum has commended
four of Schneider Electric’s Smart Factories
for comprehensively deploying a wide range
of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies
and use cases at scale, while keeping people
and sustainability at the heart of their
innovation strategies.
“We are delighted at the results we’ve
achieved to date by deploying the AVEVA
Discrete Lean Management solution in
our manufacturing plants, as part of our
Smart Factory initiative,” said Hany Fouda,
VP Systems Portfolio, Process Automation,
Schneider Electric.
“Our Smart Factory programme is focused
on deploying technology that is easy to
implement and scale quickly, including our
EcoStruxure solutions, to deliver efficiency
and sustainability. AVEVA’s solution helped
us achieve those goals by facilitating
downtime mitigation and improving
response time.
“We are confident that AVEVA is entering
the Discrete Lean Management market at
exactly the right time as demand accelerates
for software solutions that can yield these
kinds of results.”
The solution also helps to minimise the
number of manual production and lean data
collection tasks leveraging the full range of
AVEVA’s connectivity to IoT devices and over
200 plant automation systems. AVEVA’s
global presence and partner ecosystem
enable manufacturing companies to execute
their Industry 4.0 and manufacturing
operations transformation strategies.
It is available as a part of the AVEVA
Flex subscription programme, designed
to give customers complete flexibility in
the procurement, design, management
and utilisation of their industrial control
systems, empowering customers to adopt
transformative technologies quicker and
easier than ever.
We asked Dr Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice
President, Planning and Operations at
AVEVA, further questions about the solution.
How does AVEVA Discrete
Manufacturing Solution
improve operational efficiency
for production lines?
The new offering helps manufacturers to
improve operational efficiency through
the digitalisation of lean practices for both
manual and automated production lines.
AVEVA Discrete Lean Management
is designed to address the Digital
Transformation needs of operating
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