Accelerating into the modern age of manufacturing with SYSPRO MOM: your questions answered
18 December, 2024
The competitive manufacturing sector is confronted with a variety of obstacles, including the necessity for improved shop floor visibility, inefficiency, and outdated processes. SYSPRO Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is a recent solution designed to world-class standards to transform operational processes, helping manufacturers succeed in the modern day.
SYSPRO MOM has sparked numerous questions, and we’re here to provide clear, detailed answers to help manufacturers grasp its full potential.
What is SYSPRO MOM?
SYSPRO MOM has been an integral part of SYSPRO’s ERP system for some time, with its core purpose of digitising shop floors, improving productivity, and integrating with the existing SYSPRO ERP for real-time operational control. Watch our quick video overview of SYSPRO MOM to see it in action! Recently, there has been a stronger emphasis on leveraging this solution to help manufacturers transform their processes and gain a competitive advantage in today’s market. By providing a complete manufacturing management model from planning, scheduling, publishing, collecting, tracking, and analysing, SYSPRO MOM can optimise and improve manufacturing operations. The system collects data from machines, connected devices, and employees to compile actionable insights that cut costs, increase productivity, and enable faster delivery to customers. Learn more about how SYSPRO MOM can transform your manufacturing operations here.
What challenges does SYSPRO MOM solve?
The toughest challenge manufacturers face is planning and scheduling, ineffective planning and scheduling can lead to overruns, resource wastage, and bottlenecks. With an advanced, capacity-based planning and scheduling system (APS), SYSPRO MOM allows you to effectively schedule operations while minimising downtime. Using this system, businesses can create accurate schedules that account for constraints around tools, machines, personnel and inventory. This allows manufacturers to make smarter use of materials and resources to deliver to customers faster and more cost-effectively.
Preventing issues on the shop floor such as overruns, bottlenecks, downtime, poor employee or machine performance, and excessive scrap requires managers to have complete visibility. To have complete visibility, managers need data from across the shop floor, which can be complicated and time-consuming to collect manually. SYSPRO MOM uses automated data recording to provide real-time shop floor visibility, eliminating manual processes and increasing productivity. This allows for simplified execution of production plans through accurate measuring of factory activity such as labour hours, materials issued, quantities reported, scrap and more.
How does SYSPRO MOM integrate with my existing ERP?
SYSPRO MOM functions within SYSPRO’s ERP system, making integration of the two a breeze as they are designed to synchronise shop floor and financial data from across the business. Connecting shop floor activities with ERP data ensures accurate, real-time synchronisation of production and financial records, allowing manufacturers to access comprehensive insights that combine shop floor performance metrics with financial outcomes. Using SYSPRO MOM to bridge the gap between operational execution and enterprise management provides a holistic view of manufacturing that is especially useful for tracking compliance, auditing and strategic planning.
What are the key features of SYSPRO MOM?
- Real-time shop floor visibility: Monitor employees, equipment, and job statuses at a glance.
- Data automation: Automates the collection of production data from equipment.
- Performance analysis: Measures key metrics like Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Digitised processes: Reduces manual tasks, improving accuracy and efficiency
How does SYSPRO MOM support Industry 4.0?
Industry 4.0 is coined as ‘the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, a development that is quickly gaining momentum with its promises of improvement for the manufacturing industry. Using connectivity, data, automation, and technology, businesses can evolve into a sophisticated, efficient workforce using digital factories.
As an innovative solution to transform the future of manufacturing, SYSPRO MOM is designed to support the industry 4.0 journey as the key to building a Smart Factory. This is done by embedding technology into key machines, allowing manufacturers to create more intelligent manufacturing processes by aligning human workforces with machines and resources with optimised processes and systems. Using any connected piece of equipment on the shop floor, you can collect data and communicate across the shop floor to custom-build your connected factory. Smart factories are new to the world of manufacturing and therefore cannot be implemented overnight, but with SYSPRO MOM, organisations can begin building a Smart Factory tailored to their unique requirements.
What are the benefits for my team?
Effective manufacturing solutions need to benefit departments across the entire business. SYSPRO MOM can do this by simplifying tasks with easy-to-use interfaces and improved processes. When scheduling and publishing processes, higher-ups can often overlook the operations of other departments and those on the shop floor, leading to inconsistencies and disruptions to production. SYSPRO MOM allows businesses to quickly and accurately schedule processes to maximise fulfilment and resource utilisation using data from across the factory to make informed decisions that work best for their team. By providing shop floor teams with real-time data and accurate production schedules, processes are streamlined and tailored for efficiency to allow higher productivity. Similar to the existing SYSPRO ERP, the system is simple to use, meaning less time is wasted on accessing and inputting data, freeing up more time for the shop floor to focus on efficient production.
Can SYSPRO MOM help improve customer satisfaction?
By enhancing order accuracy and delivery timelines through optimised production schedules, SYSPRO MOM can improve and maintain customer satisfaction. Using real-time insights, organisations can set realistic, data-driven delivery expectations with customers, eliminating previous issues with delayed deliveries and uncertain timeframes. SYSPRO MOM is also the driving force behind improved quality, providing a detailed analysis of the quality output from both employees and equipment with comparisons to previous months to identify trends and highlight areas of improvement. Businesses should take full advantage of this, identifying where product quality issues have negatively impacted customer satisfaction or production schedules to amend and improve for the future.
The future of manufacturing
Emerging trends in Manufacturing Operations Management are heavily influenced by advancements in AI, IoT, and other cutting-edge technologies, allowing innovative solutions like SYSPRO MOM to play a crucial role in driving future growth. IoT sensors provide real-time monitoring of machinery, inventory, and production lines from across the shop floor. They improve operational efficiency by identifying potential bottlenecks and equipment issues before they escalate. Smart factories utilise interconnected systems, AI, and IoT to optimise workflows and achieve sustainable practices, contributing to significant cost reductions and improved energy efficiency. SYSPRO MOM makes use of these technologies to prepare businesses for the future with enhanced agility, sustainability, and operational excellence by aligning them with emerging trends to remain competitive in an evolving industry.
At HIT Technology we’re incredibly excited to see the development of manufacturing with the effective, innovative new solutions SYSPRO MOM provides. We’ve had a lot of questions and talks with new and existing customers already about SYSPRO MOM, so if you want to draw on our knowledge to further understand this outstanding solution, get in touch.
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