The perfect factory is one that uses real-time manufacturing intelligence to achieve the best performance with minimal unscheduled downtime. As market leaders, these model plants are highly efficient, productive, and profitable. By implementing new technology strategies that yield real-time manufacturing intelligence, manufacturers can achieve high levels of optimization and overall equipment effectiveness. Manufacturing intelligence enables managers to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of their enterprise by providing them with easy access to enterprise-wide, key information. Manufacturing intelligence provides measures to analyze, control, and manage operations performance and efficiency. This paper briefly covers some approaches that seem to offer good management intelligence solutions for an entire factory or a part of the manufacturing process.
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