In today's economic scenario, automotive manufacturers are facing competing pressures to reduce manufacturing cost, ensure good quality and comply with strict regulations (TREAD, CAFÉ, ISO 14000, etc). This increases the demand for right strategic actions to holistically manage and optimize operations across the global manufacturing network. Increased focus is required for coordinating production across facilities in order to standardize operations and ensure good product quality.

Automotive manufacturers will have to further leverage technology that will take them to the next level of operational efficiency. This will not only help them in managing their manufacturing operations (including maintenance, production, quality and inventory) but will also ensure better collaboration with the supplier network. There will also be increased focus on implementing Lean principles at all levels for reducing "muda" (waste) from the entire manufacturing operations.

How can Wipro Help?

With rich execution experience in manufacturing projects, Wipro was adjudged the leader in the Manufacturing operations space by AMR (amongst the offshore IT service providers) based on the depth and breadth of work done.

In the manufacturing execution systems (MES) space, we have product partner relationships with GE Fanuc and Apriso, and have executed projects in all key manufacturing operations areas like Scheduling & Sequencing, Track, trace & genealogy, Maintenance Management, Performance reporting dashboards, Quality Control and Regulatory compliance. We have also carried out system integration work of MES with enterprise systems. Wipro brings deep domain capabilities in the area of shop floor automation covering PLC and SCADA systems.