10 Best Practices for using Analytics

to Drive Competitive Strategy

Louis Columbus
Cincom Systems
Manufacturing Performance Requirements Are Accelerating
Sources: WSJ, Purchasing.com, AMR Research
Manufacturing Performance Requirements Are Accelerating
Information Complexity Requires Real-Time Access
Source: Gartner
Define a Strategy For Gaining Visibility into
Manufacturing Performance
Define and Act On Key Performance Drivers First

Keep Dashboards Down to Six Key
Performance Drivers

Reinforce/Reward Collaboration, Communication
with Shared Performance Drivers Globally
Business
Intelligence
and
Enterprise
Performance
Management
Plant
Operations
Customer Relationship
Management (CRM)
Product Life Cycle
Management (PLM)
Supply Chain
Management (SCM)
Enterprise Asset
Management (EAM)
Functional Plant Applications
(for example, MES, CMMS,
QMS, EHS, LIMS, etc.)
SCADA, Control Systems,
Sensors, DCS, and OT
Conditions, Locations,
Events, State, Constraints,
Costs, Exceptions, Actions
Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP)
Manufacturing
Visibility
Bring Manufacturing Visibility Into BI and EPM
Workflows On a Per Product and Project Basis
Source: Gartner
Executive Level
Line Level data rolls up
to summary at Plant
Level reporting
Plant Level
Executive targets feed Plant
Productivity targets
Plant Level data rolls
up to summary at
Executive Level
reporting
Line Level
Plant targets feed Line
Level targets
Tie Decision Makers to Execution To Obtain Maximum Return
Source: Based on Inquiry Calls with Gartner
Data Historians
Manufacturing Data Warehouse
(Historian or DB associated with MES,
EHS, etc.)
REAL-TIME
(seconds, minutes)
STAGED DATA
(shifts, days, weeks, months)
TRANSACTIONAL
(minutes, hours, shifts)
TIME FRAME FOR DECISION SUPPORT
Enterprise Data
Warehouses
(PLM/ERP/SCM/BI)
Operational Technologies
(OT)
Operational Data
Stores
(MES, CMMS, etc.)
DB
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DB
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Operators,
Engineers,
Technicians
Functional/
Task Workers
Site
Leadership
Business
Leadership
Manufacturing
Management
Define an Architecture to Support Manufacturing Analytics &
Intelligence over the Long-Term
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Use Manufacturing Intelligence to Drive Operational Gains
Key Take-Aways
1. Manufacturing Performance Requirements are Accelerating

2. Information Complexity Requires Real-Time Access

3. Define a Strategy For Gaining Visibility into Manufacturing Performance

4. Define and Act On Key Performance Drivers First

5. Keep Dashboards Down to Six Key Performance Drivers

6. Reinforce/Reward Collaboration, Communication with Shared Performance Drivers
Globally

7. Bring Manufacturing Visibility Into BI and EPM Workflows On a Per Product and
Project Basis

8. Tie Decision Makers to Execution To Obtain Maximum Return

9. Define an Architecture to Support Manufacturing Analytics & Intelligence over the
Long-Term

10. Use Manufacturing Intelligence to Drive Operational Gains



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