Apriso's Automotive Solutions:

Maximize Agility, Quality as Product Complexity Grows

The concept of global vehicle platforms as a means to achieve both economy of scale and market-demand responsiveness is firmly established in the automotive industry. For Automotive manufacturers, this requires manufacturing operations and a product supply network that are precisely synchronized yet sufficiently flexible to support market demand changes or unplanned events. This complexity must then be balanced to maximize plant utilization while enforcing consistent quality standards and processes across the manufacturing network, supporting both brand reputation as well as profitability.

Apriso’s FlexNet helps you address these challenges by providing a comprehensive manufacturing platform that uniquely enables both visibility and control required to achieve manufacturing excellence. Apriso solutions help support your efforts to synchronize production plans and material availability, increase throughput and plant capacity utilization, maximize First-Time Quality and accelerate the introduction of your innovations in the global marketplace. Apriso’s professional services team and alliance partner network helps Automotive manufacturers replace unresponsive, disparate and costly silo-based systems with a unified platform for greater operational efficiency over their global manufacturing and supply chain operations.

The Solution for Today’s Global Automotive Manufacturer

As product complexity increases and new market opportunities grow, winning as an Automotive manufacturer requires partnering with a proven company that can leverage industry best practices while supporting process flexibility. Apriso’s solutions for the Automotive industry, including in-depth experience in Powertrain assembly and Automotive Supply solutions, deliver visibility and control across manufacturing operations and the supply chain, enabling multiple improvement strategies and process improvements from a single platform.

Improve Manufacturing Efficiency

Synchronize material flows, machines, operators and processes at the business process level to increase both manufacturing performance and customer responsiveness
Accelerate time-to-market and time-to-volume with common, best practice processes consistently utilized across your manufacturing enterprise
Enable Just-in-Time (JIT) and Sequenced JIT manufacturing and shipment strategies based on customer ‘pull’ signals

Deliver Quality Across the Enterprise

Identify, hold and dispose defect ‘spills’ with quality containment capabilities executed in hours, rather than days or months
Ensure compliance with industry and customer process standards, including ISO TS-16949, APQP and PPAP, among others
Reduce time-to-volume in emerging markets and ensure quality consistency with proven best practice processes enhanced by any level of native language graphics-based Work Instructions

Increase Responsiveness

Accelerate New Product Introduction (NPI) cycle time with rapid, incremental process updates
Streamline Engineering Change Order / ECO updates in manufacturing with tight integration to PLM
Establish Center Of Excellence operations for better visibility into high-performance operations, capturing best practice processes for distribution to other sites

With Apriso, you have the widest possible footprint for management visibility — across your entire enterprise. Performance is optimized across all aspects of the extended value chain, including your people, materials, machines and processes, as well as those of your suppliers. By transferring real-time data, signals, alerts, KPIs and business intelligence to and from any network location around the world, Apriso empowers manufacturers to respond quickly to strategy shifts, changing market conditions and unexpected events.

Some of the Automotive manufacturers that have chosen to implement an Apriso solution include: