Manufacturing Operations Consulting
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Manufacturing Operations can be a dynamic challenge given the uncertainty of the economy, pressures to reduce cost and improve asset utilization while maintaining quality, the variability of production processes, executive driven metrics to analyze performance and provide internal and external benchmarking and the constant diligence associated with health, safety and the environmental policy.
Rolta's solutions are focused on increasing asset utilization, lowering energy costs and reducing HSE incidents by targeting challenges associated with:
- Inconsistent silo oriented functional work practices
- Failure of work processes due to lack of visibility, integration or automation
- Transformation of departmental activities to enterprise operational work processes
Solution - Innovation
Rolta's consulting for owner operators provide a transformation strategy to achieve defined business objectives and the business case to implement the strategy with multiple scenarios to address change based on market opportunities This is supported with:
- A set of recommendations that transcends typical individual application projects by providing a unique combination of all operational aspects of the organization
- Cross functional best practices augmented with information technology for support and automation
- Delivery of recommended KPIs to ensure sustained operational performance
Advantage - Insight
Insights are gained during the consulting engagement through visioning workshops which analyze gaps in current operational capabilities to determine desired future performance goals and benchmarking which can help to determine what it will take in terms of operational key performance indicators to attain competitive levels of performance.
Benefit - Impact
This strategic plan produced during the consulting engagement will define business programs to transform the organization to deliver the operational velocity and efficiency to meet the challenge of today's market.
Management View
Business Objectives
Process manufacturers have extremely complex assets to operate and are forced to analyze the process in obscure spreadsheets and hundreds of isolated data points. This lack of visibility into the operational and design information impedes rapid high fidelity business decisions.
Rolta's unique cross functional work processes and information technology expertise can provide a seamless methodology to deliver right-time information to the appropriate role(s) in the organization for a step change in performance. Rolta's solutions and consulting insights provide
- A more reliable operation which is inherently safer and lower impact on the surrounding environment
- Reduced energy while maintaining high quality and increased production rate
Solution
Rolta's consulting for owner operators provide a strategy to achieve defined production, reliability, maintenance, safety and energy consumption objectives. ROI analyses supplied by Rolta will help you make implementation strategy decisions for your organization. Rolta will recommend functional and cross functional KPI's to monitor and analyze for trouble shooting and reducing your risks so objectives can be met. Rolta will also recommend departmental best practices in the reliability, maintenance, energy management and production areas.
Approach
Rolta supports the engagement through:
- The visioning workshops which provide the basis for discussing best practice processes and work process automation possibilities.
- Current process and information technology audits across the operations functional departments to deliver a process and technology gap analysis
- Business scenarios delivered in business case format for program development
Business Value
Rolta's operational best practices recommendations can be targeted to deliver a decrease in asset slow-down or failure events, lower energy per unit of production, reduced safety and environmental incidents and increase owner operator margin.
Technical View
Technical Issues
The technical IT environment for a large owner operator can also be quite a challenge. Characteristics of this environment may include:
- Departmental processes supported by applications specific to department functional requirements and not supported across the enterprise
- Lack of a common hierarchy models across operations and engineering
- Lack of visibility to consolidated and validated information across the engineering and operational domains which lead to each department having only one piece of the data that only when combined can deliver actionable operational information
- Large number of underutilized dashboards supporting departmental applications
- Reliance on ERP data to support operational goals
- Departmental work processes which lack collaboration across organizational disciplines and which are not synchronized to support enterprise focused operational decisions
Some of these complex issues can be resolved by Rolta's solutions which provide:
- A unified metadata layer that maps all of the operational data trapped in each organizational application
- An asset hierarchy definition that supports operational analytics and KPIs
- An operational intelligence dashboard which provides visibility to cross departmental KPIs and synchronizes data for insightful decision making
Solution Components
Rolta's operational consulting services will supply as is and to be work processes, KPI's, reports and best practices so an accurate ROI can be calculated. Change management and training are also critical components to the solution the Rolta will recommend.
Implementation
Rolta's implementation approach includes:
- An executive sponsorship meeting to develop objectives and scope of the initiative
- Workshops to develop the current and practical future state of processes and information technology
- Recommendations that are delivered in the form of a business case
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Rolta's manufacturing operations consulting service provides unique cross departmental analysis of work processes and information technology that is used to support the manufacturing operations. We focus on the combination of engineering, production, quality, inventory, maintenance, reliability, health, safety and environmental subjects to provide a holistic approach to analyzing the operation. Technical and financial recommendations provide an actionable roadmap for implementing a solution to achieve the desired goals.