This slideshare describes how manufacturing engineering and research and development teams can utilize mobility for driving operational excellence in business processes throughout the organization.

1. Engineering Operational Excellence in
to Every Manufacturing Business
Process with Mobility

2. Optimizing manufacturing engineering
and R&D processes
55%
of R&D spending takes place in manufacturing
organizations to provide breakthroughs in production
technology.
Since 2008, manufacturing engineering and
R&D spending has reached over 55%, in an
effort to modernize operations and remain
competitive in the market. While
manufacturing organizations are working to
optimize R&D spending, it is necessary to
provide breakthroughs in product
technology and drive customer value.
Mobility provides manufacturing
organizations with the opportunity to
accelerate their R&D initiatives cost
effectively. Mobile apps keep your teams
productive, improve sluggish processes that
hinder collaboration, and increase workflow
efficiency. With mobility, your team can
innovate products without lowering quality.

3. Current trends in engineering and R&D
operational excellence
• Use of advanced technology to speed up
productivity, increase communication and
efficiency, and maintain quality by better
streamlining processes
• Tighter integration of R&D, production,
mass customization and increased
automation
• Increased data-intensive processes that
result in lower costs and increased
reliability

4. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
Mobility provides the opportunity
for manufacturing organizations
to innovate in-house. New apps
allow for better collaboration
between business unit leaders
and IT.
OLD REALITY
Organizations hired costly
consulting firms to drive
operational excellence initiatives
for lean manufacturing and
establish a culture of continuous
improvement.

5. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
Consumers have been trained to
use mobile devices, and new
mobile apps provide a fast,
personalized user experience
custom-tailored for their role.
OLD REALITY
Organizations were constrained
for resources when trying to
adapt current engineering and
R&D teams to new business
processes.

6. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
Mobile apps provide
manufacturing organizations with
the opportunity to modernize and
replace cumbersome processes in
a cheaper, more efficient way.
OLD REALITY
Organizations relied on
outdated manual processes, such
as collaborating using paper or
spreadsheets, which are time-consuming
and prone to human
error.

7. Identify customer value by responding
to their needs
Identify Customer Value
With automated, data-intensive
systems, engineering and R&D teams
can focus on customer value and
engineer their processes to be lean and
efficient.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility optimizes every point on the
customer value chain to deliver the
maximum efficiency, responsiveness
and customer value.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

8. Optimize processes by understanding
customer values
Map the Value Stream
Engineering and R&D teams receive
feedback on what their customers truly
value in terms of products and services.
This feedback is used to optimize
improvements where they are needed.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility provides the tools engineering
and R&D teams need to optimize
processes and increase responsiveness
to customers.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

9. Track metrics and eliminate waste
with the right data
Create Flow
Accelerate engineering initiatives by
providing right-time, accurate data that
puts engineering and R&D teams to
work.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobile apps encourage a culture of
increased data collection and integrity,
which allows better fine-tuning of
critical business processes.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

10. Optimize materials and labor to
measure customer buying habits
Establish Pull
Engineering and R&D teams have now
identified where to be more responsive to
customers. The teams have also collected
data to optimize processes and make
material and labor decisions for desired
input and outputs.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility provides a way to put metrics to
work, modernizing processes and
optimizing materials and labor costs to get
the job done.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

11. Pursue perfection with continuous
evaluation of current processes
Pursue Perfection
By making processes more efficient and
productive, it is easier to drive
continuous improvement. Your team
can now understand customer value
and how to maximize processes to meet
their needs.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility gives your team the
opportunity to pursue perfection
through iterative, continuous
improvement.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

12. Mobility adds value from supply chain
to sale
Inventory Control
Real-time Logistics
Scheduling
Receipt Acknowledgements
Work Order Approvals
Supply
Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales &
Marketing Post Sale
Product Lead Times
Order Tracking
Scheduling Visibility
Quality Control
Dispatch Scheduling
Logistics
Route Optimization
Warehouse Automation
Customer Dashboard
Sales Reporting
Quotes/Estimating
Competitor Intel/Analytics
Service Manuals
Service Performance
Dealer Management

13. Improve primary manufacturing
functions with mobility
Admin, IT and Finance
Human Resources
Procurement
Product Development
Business Insight Dashboard
Business Unit Performance
Product Performance
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Performance Feedback
Expense Reporting
Incident Reporting
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14. Examples of pre-built manufacturing
engineering and RD apps
Replace manual, paper-based
processes
Improve performance with
real-time data delivery
Collaborate with your team in
multiple locations

15. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Identify a meaningful engineering or RD
challenge or need that could be addressed
with a mobile app.
Many challenges in engineering and RD tend to
be the little things that add up to daily frustration
and loss of productivity for the team or manage-ment.
Examples include relying on manual process-es
and collecting information manually on paper.

16. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your internal IT
department about existing policies and
procedures that might be applicable to
mobile app deployment.
When researching mobile apps, security should be
a top priority for your manufacturing engineering
and RD team. Keep your IT team involved as you
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your team's needs.

17. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your team, ad-dressing
their pain points and how their job
can be made easier with a mobile app.
For a mobile app to be successful for your engineer-ing
and RD team, it must be focused on their needs.
If they could have a set of mobile apps to help them
with their job, what would the top three be? How
challenging is it for the team to gather information to
analyze how engineering and RD can contribute to
overall manufacturing operational excellence?

18. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Identify the key goals that your manufac-turing
engineering and RD team wants to
achieve with an investment in mobility.
When planning for the implementation of a mobile
app, consider what information and data they need
to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules
and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the
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