The real impact of not connecting design, planning, and shop floor operations
Many manufacturing plants are still operating as they did decades ago: printed drawings, verbal work orders, constantly changing Excel sheets. And all of this leads to errors.
Assembly errors, rework, delays, conflicts between engineering and production… that become normalized. Because “this is how it’s always been done.”
Digitizing a plant is not just about putting tablets on the shop floor. It’s about connecting design, planning, process simulation, and operations. It’s about knowing, before manufacturing, that everything fits.
With tools like DELMIA on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform:
- Work cells and material flows can be simulated,
- Times and loads can be evaluated,
- Designs can be validated from a manufacturing perspective,
- And operators can be coordinated with contextualized, up-to-date information.
Because manufacturing well starts long before the assembly line. And doing it blind is no longer an option.
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If reading this article made you think about how you work today in your company, it’s a good time to talk.
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