ServicesFactory of the Future Consulting
Automation strategy & tactical roadmaps to transform your manufacturing operations.
What is Factory of the Future Consulting?
The Invio Automation Factory of the Future (FotF) consulting team is a trusted advisor for manufacturing companies seeking to modernize their operations with automation and digital factory initiatives. We help our customers develop their own automation strategy by identifying and prioritizing opportunities for automation while building the supporting business case and ROI needed to make effective business decisions.
Benefits
Comprehensive Overview
For every project, we deliver a tactical, overview that includes current state evaluation results, future state system specifications, expected technical challenges with recommendations to mitigate those risk, a supporting business Case, and a plant transformation roadmap.
Reduces Time for Critical Decisions
The FotF process and approach gathers key stakeholders early in the process to build consensus and segment opportunities, often by process block or solution type. The FotF team guides manufacturers through a structured process that greatly reduces the unknowns and potential risk factors inherent in transformational projects.
Foundational Roadmap Development
The aim of the FotF team is to serve as a collaborative partner working side-by-side with the customer’s engineering, product design, quality, and executive teams to develop the blueprints and roadmaps for transforming their factories to meet their future vision and business goals / objectives.
Proprietary Benchmarking System
Utilizing a process walk worksheet in the initial floor walk, our team builds a ‘big board’ of projects and prioritizes opportunities using a '2x2' matrix and 'Hot-Spot Scoring' which provides a standardized, quantitative method to evaluates projects across multiple business goals.
De-Risking Automation Deployment Decisions
The goal of the Factory of the Future team is to invest early in key engineering activities—pulling forward about 3-5% of a project’s total cost—to de-risk the overall scope and budget of major initiatives. The structured process greatly reduces uncertainties and potential risks, paving the way for transformational projects.
Utilize Our Expertise for Sustained Success
With a wealth of knowledge on what different technologies can achieve, and insights from successful thousands of deployments elsewhere, we help manufacturers navigate the right path to effectively deploying automation and robotics that can successfully scale across an enterprise.
How to get started?
Rapid Automation Assessment
A Rapid Automation Assessment (RAA) is a faster-moving engineering effort focused on diagnosing a factory’s automation readiness. A cross-functional engineering team from Invio follows a structured approach to identify, rank, and help prioritize the landscape of opportunities inside the 4-walls of a factory as well as key technical challenges and decision points that must be addressed. To learn more, visit our RAA page.
Strategic Automation Assessment
Invio’s Strategic Automation Assessment is typically a more comprehensive engagement focused on helping manufactures develop a future-state roadmap for transforming an operation. Strategic Assessments are typically higher in complexity and technical needs and may include multiple engineering activities like concept development, discreet event simulation, CAPEX planning and more.
How it Works: Collaboratively Defining an Automation Strategy
Define Our Scope
Analyze Your Facility
Workshop Solutions
Formalize Your Plan
Report Out
