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4 Innovation Centres
Smart Manufacturing & Productivity Centre
ABOUT SMART MANUFACTURING & PRODUCTIVITY CENTRE
The Smart Manufacturing & Productivity Centre (SMPC) at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), was launched in October 2011. SMPC promotes the use of technology to enhance manufacturing productivity by improving efficiency and effectiveness. It also strives to create increased value through innovation towards high-value products and services. Overall, SMPC actively engages local companies to harness A*STAR’s technologies, tools, and capabilities in automation, processes, and systems to gain “step-change” improvements in productivity. Today, SMPC has also helped many companies in their Digital Transformation journey through the use of technologies.
MISSION & ROLES
Mission
SMPC endeavours to spur industries towards using manufacturing technologies for productivity, growth and long-term sustainability.
Roles
The key roles of the SMPC are:
- Showcase and Promotion
- Showcase productivity gains from the use of technologies in the area of operations innovation and digital transformation through the use of the latest technologies at Model Factory@SIMTech
- Provide end-user adoption sharing through regular industry forums
- Knowledge Transfer
- Use the Learn-Practise-Implement approach to conduct productivity improvement and digital transformation courses by combining interactive classroom sessions and immersive learning with practical on-site project sessions for efficient transfer of knowledge
- Technology Transfer
- Cost-effective adoption of technologies by industry through a common technology platform and standardised technology solutions
- Industry Development
- Gather feedback from industry to understand productivity and transformation challenges and actively engages the industry to introduce new technologies
CAPABILITIES & SERVICES
Technologies & Tools for Productivity Improvement
Embarking on a Productivity and Digital Transformation Journey with companies by
- Enhance Efficiency;
- Ensure Effectiveness;
- Engineering Value Innovation:
Supported by the following core capabilities
- Digitalisation
- AI & Data Analytics
- Cyber Physical System
- Industrial Automation
TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE
Operation MaNagement Innovation™ Programme (OMNI™)
The objective is to train key personnel - engineers, managers and senior staff of companies to be technology innovators to achieve manufacturing excellence.
Digital Transformation and Innovation™ Programme (DTI™)
The objective is to train and guide key personnel of organisations to be Digital Transformers in leveraging digital technologies to accelerate business model changes and achieve meaningful digital transformation.
LEAN Implementation Programme
This programme aims to achieve productivity breakthroughs for an organisation by educating trainees in the fundamentals of LEAN principles and equipping them with LEAN techniques that can be implemented in the workplace.
Mobile Workflow Technology - wfMobile™
To help companies adopt technology that allows configurable mobile workflows to digitise paper travellers, job-sheets, checklists, forms, and track on-the-go activities.
The ability to respond to customers’ specific needs in a timely manner through a connected environment, from customer order to delivery
Last Mile Logistics
Last Mile Logistics Management aims to aid companies in increasing vehicle utilisation and on-time deliveries.
Inventory Tracking System
To help companies deploy a RFID/barcode-based Inventory Tracking System (ITS) to better manage, track and audit their inventory and assets to help improve productivity, traceability and minimise errors.
Collection Delivery Management System
To provide a real-time collection and delivery management solution that is cost effective, self-learning, easy-to-use and maintain using Cloud and Mobile Apps.
eBeacon Tracker
To help companies to improve real-time visibility and resource management efficiency for PoA applications.
The planning and control capabilities, from understanding changes in the supply chain to influencing activities on the shopfloor
Smart Manufacturing Operations Management
Smart MOM streamlines production operations to ensure realistic delivery commitment and meet customer expectations.
Manpower Scheduling System (MSS)
MSS lets you create schedules in one click, reassign tasks effortlessly and share scheduling changes with your employees instantly.
FITPRISE Business Process Automation & Tracking System
A digitised business workflow system configurable to your operations workflow. it can significantly reduce time spend in tracking quotations, projects and preparing management reports such as sales pipeline, project budget/actual costing and resource allocation reports.
Real-Time Dashboard
To help companies implement dashboards with customisable user interface, ability to automatically pull real-time data from multiple sources and perform simple data analytics.
Inventory Planning
To train participants in inventory planning principles and knowledge, and equip them with skills and inventory planning system for inventory performance analysis and optimisation.
Energy Efficiency Monitoring and Analysis System
To train participants in inventory planning principles and knowledge, and equip them with skills and inventory planning system for inventory performance analysis and optimisation.
The use of the technology in a connected environment to reduce non-productive “fire fighting” activities
Overall Equipment Effectiveness Monitoring System (OEEMS)
To help companies implement an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) monitoring system to provide overall factory visibility on machine status, stoppages, job status and enable root cause analysis to maximise machine utilisation and effectiveness.
Maintenance Management System (MMS)
To help companies to implement a Maintenance Management System (MMS) to improve productivity and service quality by capturing all maintenance data digitally and providing information for quick decision support.
Project Resource Management System (PRMS)
To enable companies to better manage their projects by providing accurate and timely identification and tracking of actual resources used and/or to track the calibration and inspection of safety equipment.
IIoT-enabled Equipment Condition Monitoring and Alert
To help companies implement an equipment condition and alert system using Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) devices to enable remote monitoring of machine conditions and alerting on deterioration and/or impending failures to minimise service disruptions.
e-DataLogger+
With eDataLogger+, companies can create high-quality reports on their mobile devices. Companies can use the smart in-built functions such as inserting photos, signature, auto- complete with database, barcode, QR code and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanner to reduce time and error in generating reports.
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