What is Manufacturing Operations Management?

Maintain Production Value with AVEVA Manufacturing Operations Management

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is the art of establishing the policies and standards necessary to maintain production value and ensure that everyone and everything functions correctly. MOM involves optimizing equipment, stock, process execution, and personnel around strategic objectives such as cost reduction, quality control, and continuous performance improvement in the following areas:

• Performance management
• Operations and execution
• Recipe and batch management

Manufacturing Operations Management is delivered through applications that digitize operational processes and information to enable efficiency and transparency, and that can be deployed in one or more centers. Its key aspect, especially in applications for multiple centers, consists of applying reporting, analysis, and standardization of business processes.

Scalable Solutions

Companies can approach MOM solely from the perspective of equipment performance or they can evolve to maximum MOM functionality, integrating operations and execution, business process automation, or batch management as needed. They can implement MOM locally or standardize processes, templates, and procedures for deployment across the enterprise.

What is Special about the AVEVA MES/MOM Solution?

Solutions for operations management are the foundation for optimizing operations, including manufacturing execution, reporting and analysis, information management, energy management, and enterprise application integration.

Manage the Operations of People and Machines with Precision

Effective management of management operations should begin with the identification of key performance indicators (KPIs) that will drive measurement and improvement. This guides the prioritization of functions to automate and allows the selection of appropriate applications.

• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
  Helps measure key performance indicators (KPIs) of equipment and manage and execute production rules and policies for manual and automated operations.
• Business Process Management (BPM)
  Helps consistently apply rules and policies, streamlines the relationship between automated and human activity while maintaining SOPs.
• AVEVA Enterprise Integrator
  AVEVA Enterprise Integrator enables real-time communication and visibility across the value chain.
• Model-driven standardization techniques
  Improves total cost of ownership and time-to-value ratio for MOM deployment across the enterprise.

Who Benefits from Manufacturing Operations Management?

Effective operations management provides benefits for plant operations and management.

• Plant operations can…
  
• 1. Be more efficient – Manage work order execution by providing electronic work instructions to operators; download configuration parameters to equipment; leverage governance to enforce process and product quality, optimize stock levels and logistics to ensure uninterrupted production.
  2. Optimize asset utilization – Monitor the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) of assets and capture events to identify bottlenecks, establish best practices when comparing the effectiveness of performance between lines and equipment.
  3. Maintain quality – Enforce uniform product quality by following defined production processes, work procedures, and the use of specified materials to achieve quality to specifications.
  4. Improve quality – Reduce rejection, minimize variations, and improve performance by reducing quality deviations through statistical process control (SPC) methods.
  5. Achieve compliance – Comply with current regulations by documenting execution events, material flows, and product and process quality. Use automated electronic logging to reduce the cost of compliance and eliminate many manual tasks and potential errors for data collection, transformation, and quality certificates.
• Management can…
  1. Drive business performance – Do people follow the same procedures and adopt best practices? Do quality variations affect the bottom line? Do business operations and plant operations have real-time visibility to make the best planning decisions?
  2. Document compliance – Reduce the risk of rejection and protect your brand value by enforcing and ensuring products are manufactured to specifications. Document the manufacturing execution process with detailed traceability and quality records.
  3. Provide process visibility – Achieve supply chain visibility and decision support to make better planning decisions and meet customer satisfaction goals.
  4. Catch the wave – Facilitate greater integration of business planning and business functions with manufacturing operations to increase agility, capitalize on profitable opportunities in market demand, and optimize plant capacity.

The uneven development of standards and procedures is not good for anyone. It also adds costs and affects value. Getting everyone to follow the same procedure is no longer a pipe dream. Becolve Digital applications help organizations achieve this on a daily basis.

Redefining Manufacturing Operations Management

Better management of industrial operations can bring significant benefits, but the challenge lies in leveraging them at a cost that does not counteract the benefit. Many companies continue to rely on personal or manual approaches that may not be as efficient, but are well known. These approaches are too inconsistent and isolated, and when analyzed, prove to be very inefficient. Collaboration is also complicated with traditional methods, and when experts retire or change jobs, knowledge goes with them.

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) systems have made great strides in bringing order, but unless they are easy to use and model the real-world dynamics of the plant, they cannot be used to their full potential. Traditional MOM/MES methods can also be very rigid, chained to procedures that can become obsolete the day they are implemented. And if changes need to be made to capitalize on emerging business opportunities, you may be out of luck.

AVEVA Manufacturing Operations Management is different. It encompasses the entire MOM/MES world but elevates it to a new level of effectiveness. It uses a unique approach that models the real-world interactions between your physical plant, your processes, and your personnel. It offers a fundamental set of templates tailored to your operations and an easy-to-use engineering environment that allows for easy improvement and adaptation without coding.

A Deeper Look at Model-Driven Operations

AVEVA Manufacturing Operations Management defines the activity between the basic plant control system with respect to the relationships between business rules, physical equipment, and user interfaces. For example, each machine in the plant is represented by a hierarchy of reusable software objects characterized by its connectivity, user interfaces, security, scripts, and workflows.

Similarly, business rules and user interfaces are modeled and maintained independently, so that each can advance without affecting each other.

AVEVA System Platform provides a real-time platform for the entire plant, through which MES applications can use the models to combine human and automated activity in the execution of standardized business rules and processes. The platform adapts reusable components for each physical equipment and local automation, while maintaining data and information models of processes and data flow for other applications.

The AVEVA Work Tasks software adds functionality by offering a powerful engine to the workflow that collects reusable procedure components and adjusted to models of multiple applications and uses them for the execution of operations, the application of business rules and change management. In addition to achieving uniformity of procedures in various centers, this helps bring activity that was previously isolated to the realm of automation.

Advantages of Model-Driven Operations Management

• Filling in the blanks. Human action is more precise, more predictable, and more integrated into the world of real-time operations.
• Power for the process. Process execution goes from managing code to managing production and standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Separate but integrated. Business rules are detached from user interfaces and equipment, so that each can be defined and maintained independently but also integrated into workflows as needed to meet certain objectives.
• Pre-I/O and capacity. An equipment model provides a consistent and reusable schema of the I/O and equipment capabilities, which accelerates deployment time and reduces errors in testing and configuration.
• As easy as moving a mouse. Graphical process design tools eliminate the need for extensive coding and complex APIs, which reduces programming errors and improves communication of functional requirements.
• Real-time connectivity. A single distributed real-time platform provides connectivity to equipment, alarm management, historical data, and operator interfaces, with full access to MES data and transactions, thus providing a single window for operators to manage the plant.
• Automatic documentation. An easy-to-manage automatic documentation process model brings together the operating processes of each center in a graphical format that facilitates the capture and transfer of knowledge. Use these links to learn more about how to achieve these benefits in your plant.

Optimize your Operations with AVEVA MES/MOM

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