Digitizing the Shopfloor using AtomIQ’s Mobility Solution

Leading Commercial Beverage Systems Manufacturer Digitizes Shopfloor Management to Overcome Production Scheduling Challenges

Background

Explore how a leading manufacturer of world’s most advanced, top-of-the-line commercial coffee brewing equipment digitized shopfloor operations during Covid-19. The company known for new innovations and technologies implemented AtomIQ mobile apps to better meet the needs of an ever-changing shopfloor environment.

Challenges

With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and labor shortages, client wanted to keep up with customer demands by overcoming resource constraints at the shopfloor and proactively allocating resources to time sensitive orders. 

COVID-19 crisis had led to labor shortages. Shopfloor managers had to overcome resource constraints and address work order scheduling challenges at shop floor to better manage their end-to-end supply chain using AtomIQ.

Other challenges included:

  • Staff did not report to work and new users had to be onboarded.
  • Real-time reallocation of users was a challenge.
  • Allocating employees to work across different work centers.
  • Updating Lead Time from shop floor to get actual delivery dates.

Solution

Our Enterprise Mobility Platform from AtomIQ helped the client to put together a comprehensive strategy (mobile & web) for rolling out mobile apps across shopfloor. The following apps were deployed –
  • Employee Creation
  • Employee Allocation
  • Employee Reallocation
  • Split Employee
  • Lead Time MPF
Key aspects of the solution included:
  • Interviews key stakeholders to understand needs of end users and current pain points
  • Understand current infrastructure & future plans
  • Identification and prioritization of relevant requirements to get started with enterprise mobility adoption
  • Architecture and UX design of recommended solution
  • Detailed technology strategy covering following aspects:
    • Mobile App architectures
    • User Experience (UX) design options
    • Deployment, Distribution and Backend
    • Scalability
    • Security
    • Integration with E1

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