Developing a digital transformation strategy is essential for both immediate and long-term modernization success. An effective strategy will ensure a joined-up and integrated approach to digital transformation while delivering tangible benefits on your production lines, wider manufacturing operations, and the overall business.
Our approach is to work closely with your team, involving all stakeholders in the process, from operators to engineers to senior executives. This ensures the digital transformation strategy, as well as the solutions that come out of that strategy, is effective and fit for purpose. Having a positive impact on your business is the ultimate goal.
The expertise we offer in helping you develop a digital transformation strategy includes:
- Strategy development
- Technology roadmap development
- IT/OT convergence
- Equipment systems integration
- Cybersecurity
Strategy Development
Our Smart Factory team will assess your current processes, workflows, technology stack, manufacturing equipment, IT infrastructure, SOPs, resources, and skills. We'll then make recommendations to help you decide on the next steps in a journey where risks are minimized, confidence is built, and benefits are optimized.
We can then prepare a business case before implementing the strategy. We’ll use our agile-based approach to project delivery designed for the complexities, intricacies, and challenges that exist in life sciences sector manufacturing operations.
Our agile-based approach means it is not necessary to fully define the project scope or requirements at the outset. This ensures you get a solution developed through experience based on realities rather than attempting to predict the future.
Technology Roadmap Development
Choosing the right technologies is important for digital transformation success today, as well as being critical for success in the future. This is because the technologies selected today will have an impact on future projects, both anticipated projects and those not yet on the horizon.
Our team will start by assessing the platforms, systems, and equipment in your current technology stack to define the challenges and limitations. We’ll also get an understanding of your requirements, including those at the production line, facility, and corporate levels, before assessing vendors and solutions based on your needs and objectives.
You will then get recommendations on the best technology roadmap development approach.
IT/OT Convergence
A crucial component of Smart Factory success is the integration of equipment, systems, and platforms. This integration makes data accessible and usable while increasing automation, enhancing oversight, and improving operational control. IT/OT convergence is an essential part of this process.
IT/OT convergence involves breaking down the barriers between IT and OT (operational technology) systems, facilitating the flow of data, and optimizing your technology stack. This delivers efficiency, oversight, and productivity benefits at all levels of the business, from factory floor level to facility level to enterprise level.
Equipment Systems Integration
Equipment systems integration is the cornerstone of digital transformation in the Smart Factory. Our Smart Factory team has extensive experience planning, developing, validating, and implementing equipment systems integration solutions for manufacturers in the life sciences sector, including the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Equipment systems integration improves access to data, facilitates process automation, optimizes compliance, enhances OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), and delivers productivity and efficiency improvements.
Cybersecurity
We adopt a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity in manufacturing organizations taking into account the elevated risk faced by the life sciences sector.
This comprehensive approach includes adopting an integrated strategy that covers both IT and OT backed by our detailed knowledge of existing and emerging threats. We also utilize our expertise across both IT and OT assets, as well as network architectures and the cloud.
The support we can provide as part of the development of a Digital Transformation Strategy includes asset audits, cybersecurity maturity assessments, risk reviews, vendor assessments, mitigation strategies, and continuous monitoring.
