How far are you in your manufacturing digital transformation?

Manufacturing shops in many industries are seeking to accelerate their processes and improve their consistency by achieving a digital transformation.

Where many manufacturers have made significant advances in modernizing the physical side of their process – investing in state-of-the-art tech like greater automation, streamlining their assembly lines, or real-time quality monitoring of output – fewer investments have been made in bringing the digital process up to speed.
But what is a digital transformation exactly? What should it do for you? How do you know whether or not you’ve achieved what you need to?

To find answers to these questions and more, take our digital transformation assessment tool. This ten question survey looks at different areas of the digital side of your business and gives you a score on how modernized they are.

After the survey, you’ll have access to a report tailored to your needs that recommends the most impactful next steps.

Want to learn more about what “digital transformation” really means? Check out our blog!
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Where does data about your parts live (e.g. number in inventory, pricing data, quality reports, etc.)?
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When you need to look up data about a specific part, what is the process like?
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What sort of access do employees working off-site have to data?
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Let’s say a new employee needed to find all the relevant data for a specific part. How long would that take them on average?
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Part One: Access to Data

Trying to find specific data to make informed decisions is a major slowdown for manufacturers. Our surveying found that over 50% of engineers spent more than an hour every day tracking down information like this. Accelerating access to data is a major part of digital transformation.

Part One:

Access to Data
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When someone needs to make a change to a design or comment on it, how do they go about it?
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How do you compare two revisions of a drawing to find differences?
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What sort of access do employees working off-site have to data?
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Part Two: Collaborating and Revision

Another relevant advantage of a digital transformation is making revisions and collaborations easier and more consistent. The average automotive drawing goes through at least five revisions, with some industries requiring dozens more. Without a good process and technology to support it, it’s very difficult to track these changes.

Part Two:

Collaborating and Revision
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Let’s say you want to find parts that have unacceptable defect rates or high prices, and look for patterns in the type of parts. What insights would you see when looking at your parts database?
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Let’s say you wanted to reduce your parts database size to make inventory simpler. How would you achieve this?
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Let’s say you wanted to consolidate your suppliers to take advantage of better rates. How would you know which suppliers might be able to offer each part?
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Part Three: Contextualizing and Insights

Digital transformation can unlock many opportunities for saving and streamlining by surfacing insightful data. The goal is to make trends and patterns obvious to even new employees.

Part Three:

Contextualizing and Insights
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Spearheading your digital transformation with CADDi

The benefits of a digital transformation are many: from better quality designs to cost savings on every component part. Investing in a modern digital transformation is one of the most impactful uses of time and energy available to you.

This investment can be enhanced by adopting a digital system to automate and simplify your digital transformation. CADDi’s features include searching by drawing, design revision infrastructure, and surfacing relevant data. Each of these makes your decision-making process faster and more strategic.

Sign up for a demo to see it all in action.
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