Digital Manufacturing

In 2018, Sicav embarked on its production process digitalisation journey, in order to:

• make the paper documentation required by sector quality certifications more accessible and dematerialise it;
• have greater control over key process data and cost deployment, i.e. a breakdown of the production costs per individual operation.

As a result, the MMS - Manufacturing Monitoring System was created; a general-purpose management system for production processes, which allows great results to be achieved for a low and competitive initial investment, when compared to solutions offered by other suppliers, thereby speeding up the 'payback' time of the investment.

Sicav's solution also creates a link between the different company departments, providing its customers with the option to receive daily reports of all system-recorded data.

• Real-time monitoring of
  - processing times
  - the entire premise’s electricity consumption (can also be used as data for predictive maintenance)
• production control
• waste control
• production downtime control
• digitalisation of paper documentation
  - work instructions
  - process documents
  - operator notices

The main strengths of the MMS are the option to customise according to customer requirements and the flexibility and responsiveness when product modifications are requested.