Beyond Digitisation

By OEM Update Editorial June 29, 2017 5:04 pm IST

Keeping their aspiration to go global in perspective, Indian companies need to upgrade their operations, develop skill set and a keen look at the learning of the companies set in a global ecosystem.

Dassault Systèmes provides software solutions that help its customers – right from design to execution of a product. Arun Rao, Director, Strategic Operations & Alliances, Dassault Systemes – India shares his opinion on Indian manufacturing sector’s stride towards digitisation.

Digitisation, a journey
Digitisation is no longer a ‘future trend’ – for many companies it is now at the heart of their strategic and research agenda. In today’s age of experience, digital manufacturing and manufacturing operations management (MOM) has emerged as an important tool to cut costs, maintain productivity and achieve manufacturing excellence. With the fast adoption of digital manufacturing and MOM, the dream of making the world a digitally sound place has come closer to reality. With the technology today, companies have the capability to design and test every aspect of the product or service virtually and hence elevate the quality of the services in a cost efficient and precise manner. In this age of experience, new capabilities require businesses to be agile, customer-oriented, well-connected, innovative, efficient, and most importantly aligned with present and future customer needs. Digitisation is not only a development stage, but a journey having various connected objectives. It requires businesses to strive towards continuous improvement and optimisation of business processes.

Providing software and industry solutions for smart factory
Dassault Systemes has been one of the leaders in providing software and industry solutions for ‘Smart Factory’ development. It recently acquired Ortems&Quintiq and folds the company into the 3DEXPERIENCE (specifically DELMIA) platform because it offers power technology to design, simulate control the smart factories of today and the future. Using Dassault solutions, factory managers can streamline the worlds of virtual design and physical production in a Virtual Twin of the actual factory and try out various techniques to make it indeed a smart one. With DELMIA software, manufacturers can quickly absorb the myriad complexities that happen on the manufacturing floor and build out interactive ‘Virtual Twin’ that can deal with the ‘what-if’ scenarios that plague manufacturers. In addition, the solutions enable manufacturers to transform their operations while achieving and sustaining operational excellence. It allows tightly synchronise global manufacturing operations and product supply networks by delivering real-time visibility and control across the enterprise.