Authored by John Clemons, MESA Marketing Committee Chair, based on an interview with Chris Monchinski, MESA Model Sub-Committee Member
At this point, it’s not new news that MESA International
is developing a new Smart Manufacturing Model. It covers a lot of ground with
chapters on the lifecycles of supply chain, personnel, order to cash, product,
production, and production assets.
The fundamental purpose of the new Smart Manufacturing
Model is not to be descriptive in explaining Smart Manufacturing, but to be
prescriptive by providing recommendations on how people can be smarter in their
manufacturing endeavors.
I recently got a chance to talk with Chris Monchinski,
who’s heading up the Product Lifecycle team. He told me what’s going to be in
the product lifecycle chapter of the new MESA Smart Manufacturing Model.
He said, “the biggest challenge with managing the product
lifecycle is that it’s so intertwined with all the other lifecycles. It
intersects with engineering, operations, R&D, product development, supply
chain, sales, marketing, NPDI, PLM, contract manufacturing, and on and on and
on. It pretty much touches every other lifecycle in manufacturing.”
The main objective of the chapter of the new model is to
help people be smart in managing their product lifecycle. This idea is to
support the enablement of the constantly evolving view of the product. With
this view, the idea is to optimize the product at each point in the product
lifecycle.
Managing the product lifecycle is particularly
challenging for manufacturing operations. The operations team must be able to
constantly change its manufacturing approach as the lifecycle of the product
continually develops and matures.
One of the reasons this is especially challenging to
manufacturing operations is the overall manufacturing approach must constantly
change as the product develops and matures. The approach that manufacturing
operations must take is different when the product is being developed, becoming
mature, is mature, is expanding, is growing, is past its prime, and is nearing
retirement. And that’s not to mention product enhancements, product extensions,
product variations, and product customizations. These situations are all
challenging, requiring different manufacturing approaches.
Ultimately, it's all about the interaction of the product lifecycle
with all the other lifecycles. The fundamental issue is this interaction.
Fortunately, there’s lots of elements of Smart Manufacturing that enable this interaction.
Elements such as big data, AI, IIoT, simulation, digital twins, digital
threads, MES systems, descriptive and predictive analytics, just to name a few.
One aspect that Chris mentioned is the need for data.
Chris said, “to optimize the product lifecycle, manufacturing operations must
have data on all aspects of the product. They use that data to react faster to
the continually changing lifecycle of the product. They must have data on
everything about the product. One aspect of the new MESA Smart Manufacturing
model is about trying to get manufacturing the data they need about the
product, so they can optimize manufacturing, and optimize the product
lifecycle.”
That’s just one part of the product lifecycle chapter of the new MESA International
Smart Manufacturing Model. This chapter is on the product lifecycle and there’s
chapters on many other key aspects of manufacturing operations. They aren’t
academic and they’re not descriptive. They’re practical and prescriptive, dealing
with how we can be smart in the real world.
Stay tuned for more looks into the chapters of the new
MESA International Smart Manufacturing Model.
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