Digital Production Collaboration and Equipment Energy Management for a Heat-treatment Manufacturer
Background
The production process involved scheduling, equipment, routing, energy consumption, and quality control. Production plans, equipment use, operation progress, and energy data were fragmented, delaying cost analysis and shop-floor coordination.
Typical challenges included:
- Scheduling relied on experience, making rush orders and equipment conflicts costly to resolve.
- Production execution, equipment operation, energy use, and quality data did not form one chain.
- Cost issues could not be broken down promptly by order, equipment, process, and batch.
Products and Services
Longedt implemented the OPS End-to-End Digital System with assessment, planning, standards, processes, policies, collaboration, and data-system development. The solution built digital capabilities for production collaboration, scheduling, and equipment energy management:
- Orders and routings became schedulable, executable, and traceable production tasks.
- Equipment, operations, teams, and production progress were coordinated online.
- Equipment-energy and process data were captured as a basis for cost analysis.
- Production exceptions, quality issues, and cost fluctuations became traceable.
Results
After go-live, the company established closed loops for production collaboration, scheduling, and equipment-energy analysis, reducing production cost by more than 20%. The case illustrates the core value of manufacturing digitalization: turning shop-floor data into evidence for improving cost, efficiency, and quality.
