There is a lot of value in the money with Siemens Opcenter Quality. Right now, when talking about any industry which is doing design and manufacturing, people have been using automation in designing from 1980s when the CAD software came up. Then around 2000s, something called PLM came up with process planning, and ERP is already there. ERP is mandatory. However, for operations on the shop floor, there is no mandatory tool. Everybody uses Excel or the shop floor production manager, and the production supervisor's brain is important. This tool will decrease the dependence on Excel. In Excel, a human has to intervene and do all those things, and if something goes wrong, everything has to be rescheduled for that particular shift. At that time, time is lost and I need the supervisor and only with his brain can he tell what is the right way or the optimal way. However, this tool can optimally do the recalculation and based on the number of machines available, number of operators available, and number of the products and work orders they are about to complete. Based on that, this automatically calculates. This is really a game-changing software. There are some people who are building it, but I do not know how good they are in the market. As part of my job, I am also trying to build this type of software internally. Maybe in six months, I will be having a prototype type of solution from my end.I will give an example from my Indian experience. I went to one of the manufacturing companies and usually the operators are supposed to review the work instructions and implement them. There was a guy with 20 years of experience who was not even looking at the work instructions and was machining the product. I asked him, "What is the problem with you? Why don't you check it?" He replied, "I have been doing this for the last 20 years, the same thing." However, he does not know whether in the last one year or last one month, there may have been a change in shape or a size or a material or something got changed. The process might have improved. He does not know. However, these systems will enforce them to view the work instructions and then only operate it. Without viewing, it will not allow the operation. These types of restrictions on the shop floor are needed, and most of the time shop floor people reinvent the process, which can lead to more scrap. They are not supposed to reinvent. They are supposed to only build what the process planner has designed or the manufacturing engineer has designed. If they are asked to design something and follow the process and these people are creating a new process, maybe experienced people can do a better job on the shop floor, but everybody is not experienced and everybody does not know the complete details that the engineer or the manufacturing engineer or the process planner knows. So these people should not invent anything on the shop floor. If I do not have this type of systems, maybe some companies are running, but they do not understand how much waste they are creating because of this recreation at the shop floor. Those things are what need to be the game changer for everyone. It is medium complex. Anything involving enterprise products will be a bit complex. However, it is doable. My overall review rating for this product is 7 out of 10.
There is a lot of value in the money with Siemens Opcenter Quality. Right now, when talking about any industry which is doing design and manufacturing, people have been using automation in designing from 1980s when the CAD software came up. Then around 2000s, something called PLM came up with process planning, and ERP is already there. ERP is mandatory. However, for operations on the shop floor, there is no mandatory tool. Everybody uses Excel or the shop floor production manager, and the production supervisor's brain is important. This tool will decrease the dependence on Excel. In Excel, a human has to intervene and do all those things, and if something goes wrong, everything has to be rescheduled for that particular shift. At that time, time is lost and I need the supervisor and only with his brain can he tell what is the right way or the optimal way. However, this tool can optimally do the recalculation and based on the number of machines available, number of operators available, and number of the products and work orders they are about to complete. Based on that, this automatically calculates. This is really a game-changing software. There are some people who are building it, but I do not know how good they are in the market. As part of my job, I am also trying to build this type of software internally. Maybe in six months, I will be having a prototype type of solution from my end.I will give an example from my Indian experience. I went to one of the manufacturing companies and usually the operators are supposed to review the work instructions and implement them. There was a guy with 20 years of experience who was not even looking at the work instructions and was machining the product. I asked him, "What is the problem with you? Why don't you check it?" He replied, "I have been doing this for the last 20 years, the same thing." However, he does not know whether in the last one year or last one month, there may have been a change in shape or a size or a material or something got changed. The process might have improved. He does not know. However, these systems will enforce them to view the work instructions and then only operate it. Without viewing, it will not allow the operation. These types of restrictions on the shop floor are needed, and most of the time shop floor people reinvent the process, which can lead to more scrap. They are not supposed to reinvent. They are supposed to only build what the process planner has designed or the manufacturing engineer has designed. If they are asked to design something and follow the process and these people are creating a new process, maybe experienced people can do a better job on the shop floor, but everybody is not experienced and everybody does not know the complete details that the engineer or the manufacturing engineer or the process planner knows. So these people should not invent anything on the shop floor. If I do not have this type of systems, maybe some companies are running, but they do not understand how much waste they are creating because of this recreation at the shop floor. Those things are what need to be the game changer for everyone. It is medium complex. Anything involving enterprise products will be a bit complex. However, it is doable. My overall review rating for this product is 7 out of 10.