Collaborative Production Management for the Process Industries: Turning Information into Action
It’s no good just looking at a problem—you need to be able to act on it. An
effective Collaborative Production Management environment brings together
data from many sources and makes it available in a format for rapid business
level decision making. Many components need to be in place for this to work:
- Data needs to be managed and accessible
- Information needs to be filtered down to the essential facts, displayed effectively in context for analysis
- Options related to best practice methods and procedures need to presented
- Actions or inactions need to precipitate a predefined workflow thread
The benefits of such a program are seen in organizational agility and
predictability. This translates into profitability as decisions are based on a
single, credible set of information using true business drivers.