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Sustainable Manufacturing
Manufacturing presents a huge number of opportunities for improving supply-chain sustainability. By improving the efficiency of manufacturing operations and reducing energy and water consumption, you can simultaneously cut costs, reduce waste, improve margins, and optimize the use of environmentally critical resources.
Improving product quality has a number of key impacts on sustainability measures: it reduces the waste from product scrap and diminishes the number of defective units that in effect curtail product life. Superior total quality management lengthens the useful life of products and reduces or delays the impact of end-of-life disposal and recycling. Quality can also positively affect the operating efficiency and the associated environmental impacts of products.
New technology has created more opportunities than ever before to fully visualize and manage complex manufacturing processes, unlocking new opportunities to detect and eliminate inefficiency. By applying technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in the right places, and using data analytics to make sense of the data gathered by the IoT, manufacturers can improve the sustainability of their operations significantly and quickly.
The Best Practices of Sustainable Manufacturing
- Frequently review processes to identify possible improvements
- Use the latest manufacturing technology and Lean, Six Sigma, or other methodologies to eliminate inefficiencies and maximize product quality
- Utilize the Internet of Things to track operations and machinery, and find out what’s really costing you too much and using too many resources
- Maintain visibility across your manufacturing environment to ensure resource utilization stays optimal and sustainable
Tailored Action Plan
Map out your current manufacturing operations, and identify areas where discrete IoT sensors and capabilities could help you better monitor your processes.
Use manufacturing analytics tools to turn the data gathered by the IoT into actionable insights.
Use those insights to transform individual processes and drive big changes across the manufacturing environment.
Keep deep manufacturing data on record to simplify compliance with new regulations, and demonstrate the sustainability of your processes.
The solutions you need.
Oracle Manufacturing Cloud
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