Revolutionizing Smart Manufacturing: a Day in the MOM Factory

If You Were Asked What You Think a Smart Production Plant should be like, What Would You Answer?

Imaginary moment: it’s your first day in a fully digitized industrial plant. As soon as you enter, you perceive that everything is connected: people, systems, processes… Oh, and not only that: the information also flows in real time, leading to rapid, accurate, and well-founded decision-making.

No, it’s not a utopia. Nor is it a futuristic vision. Although we have asked you to imagine it, we are talking about a possible reality thanks to our MOM solution.

MOM… What?

MOM, an acronym for Manufacturing Operations Management, is a solution that integrates all key processes – planning, production, quality, warehouses, maintenance, supply chain, and people management – into a single coordinated environment.

Every time a conventional factory decides to implement it, it gives rise to a new plant model, which in this article we will refer to as MOM Factory. But what exactly does this new model consist of, and why do we say that it revolutionizes manufacturing?

Before taking you on a tour of a full day in a MOM plant and answering these questions, let’s quickly review the fundamentals of this solution.

The DNA of the MOM Solution

Becolve’s MOM solution is built on three fundamental pillars:

1. Real-time integration
   MOM unifies process control, production, planning, and maintenance systems:
   • Boosting operational agility and production automation.
   • Monitoring processes to minimize incidents and ensure quality.
   • Digitizing and optimizing materials management.
   • Planning production in a flexible and automated way with total visibility of manufacturing.
2. Connected worker
   MOM offers valuable and real-time process information to the people who make up the organization:
   • Improving reaction and resolution times for production events.
   • Facilitating in-situ deep process analytics to speed up decision-making.
   • Ensuring compliance with procedures and execution quality (checklists, alarms, forms…).
   • Digitizing knowledge and versatility.
3. IA Data Driven
   MOM allows applying advanced analytics intelligently to maximize benefits in manufacturing and business, improving decision-making based on real manufacturing data.

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MOM in Action: a Day in a Factory that Already Works with the Solution

Having understood the basics of the solution, let’s get to the really interesting part: What is the day-to-day like in a plant that incorporates the MOM solution?

PREPARATION

It’s 10 a.m. The planning manager detects that the demand for one of the essential products has changed. Thanks to the integration of systems and total visibility of the plant status (do you recognize the first pillar of the solution?), he can replan production in just 3 clicks (update, optimize, publish), adapting to changes in demand and the status of the production plant.

EXECUTION

With production underway, each area works with synchronized information. Despite being different departments, all its members (operators, supervisors, technicians) access the data in real time from their devices.

All this occurs thanks to the integration of SCADA, MES, EAM, and planning systems, being able to make quick decisions, act autonomously, and maintain operational efficiency throughout the plant.

In practice, this translates into:

• Agility and automation of operations and reporting: thanks to a knowledge management system integrated into production, teams make decisions quickly and in a well-founded manner, directly from the work environment.
• Automated communication between production and maintenance to promote the proactivity and efficiency of equipment and people (requests, alarms, variable monitoring…).
• Real-time production planning with production and maintenance visibility. MOM allows optimizing production while ensuring compliance with maintenance work.

In the execution, we see how the empowerment of people with valuable information in real time, the second pillar of MOM (connected worker), materializes.

ANALYSIS

The real manufacturing data, collected during the day, becomes useful information to improve processes, detect bottlenecks, and adjust the strategy.

All this is possible in DataCentric organizations, where valuable data is accessible at any time and analyzed intelligently. This is where the third pillar of MOM comes into play, defined by the adoption of an IA Data Driven approach that converts that information into well-founded business decisions.