PROCTER & GAMBLE
we need less assets to produce the same volume . This means we are able to defer capital investments - often not only associated with incremental packing machines but sometimes associated with building a new plant - so this has a massive impact on deferring capital spending which is why OEE is so critical .”
Stawicki pointed out that one of the most important things of manufacturing excellence is preventing defects in a product which can be detrimental to building trust with our consumers in our brands , especially in the world of social media . “ This is why ensuring that the zero defects are produced and shipped to the consumer is absolutely fundamental .”
TOUCHLESS FLOW OF INFORMATION P & G ’ s digital journey is also critical for the company to retain its competitive advantage .
“ It can only be fully adopted when we create the right culture - what we think
ADVANTAGE OF P & G ’ S AGILE MANUFACTURING
P & G ’ s manufacturing teams across the world harnessed their innovation capabilities to provide additional relief beyond their brands to help during the pandemic .
In Northern Europe , the agility of P & G teams enabled the production of 28,500 litres of hand sanitiser supplied to the WHO Formula 1 - the equivalent of 9.5 million hand washes . and what we look at – enabling us to engage and energise our people to achieve the current performance where certain losses like breakdowns and minor stops have been practically eliminated to zero ,” said Stawicki .
“ So as a next level loss , we look at the digital journey enabling touchless flow : creating end-to-end supply chain touchless flow of the information and in the other direction , touchless flow of the materials and product . Eliminating touches is the next vision we are progressing against and energising our organisation to deliver .”
STAWICKI POINTED OUT THE FOUR STAGES OF P & G ’ S DIGITAL ROADMAP : 1 | Build the right organisation structure in the manufacturing sites . This includes a strong partnership with the IT organisation and the right capability for the people in the organisation .
2 | Create the infrastructure , which is resilient and critically cyber secure , as well as ensuring everyone has the core set of solutions implemented as the foundation to build from .
3 | Harvest value creation with the integration phase . Unlock the significant benefits by integrating across the digital platforms and applications to drive a seamless flow of data to fully leverage the power of the digital transformation .
4 | Exploit what is possible in the amplification phase . The final phase is to leverage the power of the cloud to drive higher levels of analytics from digital twins and machine learning as well as enabling distributed innovation .
78 April 2021