Industry 4.0 puts forward new requirements for production and management methods. Enterprises of the industrial machinery and equipment industry face the following challenges:

— Unstable demand and ever-increasing number of requests for unique features and personalization of manufactured products
— High complexity of supply chains
— Reduced lead times
— Increased requirements for after-sales services

— Reduce the development and manufacturing lead time of customized products
— Optimally manage product configurations
— More accurately plan and promise to customers realistic lead times
— Reduce stock and order fulfillment costs
— Improve responsiveness to changes

The Industrial Machinery & Equipment industry solution helps manufacturers transform their business processes by streamlining them and making them more flexible and allows:

— Heavy machinery
— Industrial equipment manufacturing
— Industrial machinery
— Transport Engineering
— Production of special-purpose machinery

The solution is based on in-depth industry experience, it incorporates global best practices of production management and provides an opportunity to solve specific issues of various sub-industries, including:

— Production management and planning with the possibility of combining different strategies: Engineer-to-Order, Manufacture-to-Order, Modification-to-Order, Assembly-to-Order, Manufacture-to-Stock
— Efficient demand and supply planning through complex supply chain visibility and multiple restocking methods
— Efficient operational production planning and dispatching
— More accurate data-driven demand forecasting capabilities
— Planning and management of long-cycle stocks
— Operational production management with online tracking of execution and order support
— Full operational transparency with the online deviation notification system
— Capability to track configuration at the final assembly of the product
— Product Specification Management Capability to maintain an end-to-end unique structure of specifications from design and planning to production and service
— Capability to automatically create a specification using the configurator when accepting and discussing an order
— Automated configuration, pricing, and quoting capabilities
— Management of critical equipment utilization and throughput capacity of equipment and work centers
— Financial analytics with the ability to collect production and assembly costs
— Cost management in the context of orders, determining the actual profitability of the contract
— Quality management and labor safety compliance
— Built-in CRM and order management
— Multisite, multi-logistics inventory planning

— Configuration and change management in product design, process specification of manufactured products
— Product lifecycle management based on modern PLM tool
— Function of the project pre-sale cost and timing assessment
— Project management
— Сonvenient visualization of WBS, scheduling, cost calculation, and the possibility of detailed project mapping

In the production of unique products, Infor Industrial Machinery & Equipment solution supports:

— Last mile, industry-specific functionality
— Scalable and secure cloud with extensibility for personalisation instead of customisation
— Multi-tenant deployment in the AWS® cloud
— IoT, AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics
— Social collaboration, role-based homepages, and industry-specific KPIs

Cloud-based, industrial machinery and equipment manufacturing software solution enables Industry 4.0 capabilities:

A leading manufacturer of pumps, compressors and skid-mounted equipment has optimized business processes and automated management operations using Infor LN. Infor LN helped optimize supply сhain management and production, as well as planning and project activity.

LEADING MANUFACTURER OF PUMPS, COMPRESSORS AND OIL & GAZ EQUIPMENT