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APC is SMS_ThinkTank’s partner for operational excellence. The APC team provides leading-edge consulting in lean management. This partnership adds great value to SMS_ThinkTank’s Digital Transformation Consulting Offerings. This partnership enables the combination of digital engineering and operational excellence under one umbrella in support of companies’ digital transformation initiatives. Together we developed a state-of-the-art CMMI-based Industry 4.0 Maturity Model. This model is the foundation of our combined consulting offerings.
This partnership highlights the requirement that upfront operations development and optimization needs to be moved into early stages of the lifecycle of a product or service. It can’t be an afterthought anymore. The operational element of any organization is a foundational element within an enterprise’s product systems, ecosystem and solution system. By considering operations in the very early development stages, it becomes part of the overall systems solution. By applying virtual principles to the traditional lean principles leading-edge systems engineering principles can be applied to the operation in conjunction with engineering. This will result in:
Merging Lean Management with Industry 4.0:
CMMI-based Maturity Models have been developed by SMS_ThinkTank for a variety of domains. All these models are structured in three main categories:
The same principle has been applied to the newly developed together with Faro Partners Industry 4.0 Maturity Model. This is reflecting the combination of principles mentioned above.