The idea
To automate the production process across engineering plant floors with a common strategy; and to integrate various systems in Produce Life Cycle Management and reduce the processing times from concept to assembly.

The client
One of the world’s largest automotive OEMs

The business challenge
A MPP (Master Process Plan) module was used by all regions and LPP (Local Process Plan) module was used by only couple of client locations viz, Europe and Latin America. North America region was using an excel based tool instead of LPP.

How Wipro helped
Facilitated process change at the client organization with a new production information management process, by implementing a Master Process Plan containing common operation references, relevant operation descriptions and data for both assembly and component manufacturing and for local process plans.

Business benefits
Implementation of APS helped in :
Reduction by 28% in processing times from concept to assembly
“What if” features of the system helped in line balancing, loading and assignment of the plant resources     optimally to meet the demand Vs business goals.
Reduced operational cost in terms of infrastructure optimization (cut down of 55 servers across    geography into 2 UNIX servers) by automating the system & making it web enabled.
Client realized 30% YOY saving with cost optimizations & common process framework across all plants