Achieving Your Manufacturing Goals in the Age of Uncertainty

TwinThread Seminar Series: Achieving Your Manufacturing Goals in the Age of Uncertainty

Using an AI-Assisted Top-Down / Bottom-Up Process to Accelerate Innovation & Operationalize Results

We all have them - scorecards and goals.

We all have operating plans to achieve them.

We all have technology and process backing them up.

And yet… Does this sound familiar to you?

• Are you worried about the high cost of materials?
• Have you been given an energy mandate and are uncertain of your order of solve?
• Does operating performance vary by SKU, line, plant or region?
• Do you know why?
• Are you able to pivot quickly in the face of supply chain disruptions?

Starting with a top down approach to select optimum targets, and then implementing a bottoms up approach to hit those targets is common.


However, manufacturing being what it is, you may have run into some hurdles:

Insufficient Data: Data in multiple, unrelated units, not enough data, bad or missing data

Time Constraints: Not enough time to dig into and analyze your data

Human Subjectivity: Meaning it’s hard for someone to analyze a problem objectively when it could mean big changes for them

Change Adoption: Having the ability to confirm that a change, once implemented, continues.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be breaking down the steps of an AI-assisted, top-down approach to optimizing manufacturing performance.

Topics:

The Basics

• What are the elements of an AI Assisted Top Down Approach?
• What is a bottoms up approach and when should it be used?
• The truth about KPIs
• Top Potential V Top Cause

Technology Assists:

• Data Lakes
• Digital Twins and Threads
• Reporting Engines V Analytics
• AI

Making it Stick

• Execution Execution Execution
• Iteration and Innovation
• Examples
  • Quality
  • Production
  • Energy Intensity
• Managing Change