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Atos
A FACTORY CONTROL TOWER SUCCESS STORY
Atos has designed and is currently implementing a major cloud ‐based ( AWS ) Smart Factory 4.0 programme for a global pharmaceutical company to be scaled across 50 + plants that will be equipped with solutions like a Smart Factory Control tower .
Business Challenge
• To achieve business and productivity targets by improving production KPIs to a whole new level
• The Smart Factory 4.0 Programme is the driver of innovation and digitalisation for all factories across the globe
Our joint solution
• The Smart Factory is the nucleus for designing and executing using an agile approach : Interdisciplinary agile teams translate new business ideas into real products and services for the factories worldwide
• 100 digital experts are expected to increase to 200-400 FTE by end of 2021
• The focus is on speed , which will result in short development cycles
Benefits 2019 to date to collect data from factories and move the data lakes to the cloud to provide enterprise-level smart factory control room functionality .
“ To our company , this means that an operations director in head office can see how all the plants are performing in real time , and at any time .”
He believes ERP solutions like SAP have a massive part to play across Atos . “ Silos have very defined functions and , if
• Most of the digital products are either available or under development
• Built digital products include Plant Control Tower , eOEE , GoldenBatch Analytics , SPC and Mobile Supervisor solutions
• Solutions have been deployed in four plants already with a global control tower in place , providing visibility and analysis of plant KPIs around the globe
• Deploy solutions to 52 plants : roll-out and hyper-care 2021 - 2023
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