EY Connected Manufacturing

Unlock efficiency and resilience by bridging the gap caused by operational processes. EY combines industry-leading manufacturing knowledge with tech capability to make your factory floor fit for the future.

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What EY can do for you

Companies struggle to achieve sustainable performance breakthroughs when they fail to automate workflows and rely only on siloed systems and manual operational processes. This approach often results in a failure to maintain and promote leading practices globally, track capability-build and value-realization, and harness the art of the possible on technology.

EY Connected Manufacturing provides automated workflows and a seamless experience that allow all employees to:

  • Drive resiliency and productivity.
  • Keep production lines running smoothly.
  • Reduce downtime and mean time to restore.

Why Connected Manufacturing?

The human-centric platform makes shopfloor workers the owners of their performance:

  • Real-time visibility of performance, retention and evolution of leading practices​
  • Digitalization speeds up operational excellence program, improves buy-in​
  • Digitalization and AI-based analytics allow continuous improvements​
  • Automated, end-to-end defect management​
  • Paperless shopfloor

The EY manufacturing capability covers the full scope of manufacturing excellence supported by our position as ServiceNow Top Global Elite Partner & Manufacturing market leader:

  •  EY Connected Manufacturing: Helps enable EY industrial clients to digitally connect and engage their workforce, positively impacting retention and skill gaps.
  • Operational excellence framework: EY teams support clients through their operational excellence journey by supporting processes and help enable sustained performance and capabilities advancement.
  • Sensorization and process optimization: Connects all relevant plant data into a single data foundation for manufacturing, improving analysis and sharing of data across the tech landscape.

EY Connected Manufacturing underpins these services, driving growth and improving efficiency and customer experience:

  • Support shopfloor workers to increase adoption of operational practices.
  • Connect IT and operations on a single platform for a one-stop shop experience.
  • Reduce non-value-adding tasks through automation and workflow consistency.
  • Deploy global practices easily by validating and sharing proven operational excellence approaches.

Based on EY implementation experience, we have created persona-driven, process-specific accelerators to support central operational-excellence processes including:

  • Defect handling
  • Clean, inspect, lubricate operations
  • Incident elimination
  • Shopfloor meetings

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