Stage 1: Assess current operations and identify areas of improvement

It all starts with an assessment.
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Find Where you are at

Stage 1 of modernizing an industrial manufacturing facility is completing a comprehensive assessment of your current operations.

Understanding where you are at today will give you key information to build your manufacturing facility of tomorrow. By analyzing production data, engaging key stakeholders, and benchmarking against industry best practices, you will identify pain points and opportunities for improvement within your processes.

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Lincoln Industries and their Journey to a Modern, Sustainable Facility

A modern story with an age-old problem. Lincoln Industries is a forward-looking company and knows that to compete they need to be automated. To do that, they need to be up-to-date and modernize their equipment and processes.

Learn how they did it and how they didn’t go at it alone.

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Evaluate your Equipment

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Assess for Success

How can you get to where you want to be if you don't know where you are?

Figuring out where you are today helps you create your modernization roadmap for tomorrow.

The AIMM Services Modernization Assessment Program uses scalable plant assessments to provide ongoing insights into your facility's current condition, performance, and capabilities. Through regular Modernization Workshops, the program aligns assessment data with your objectives, creating a tailored modernization plan updated to reflect changes in your journey.

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Analyze your Manufacturing Processes

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Process Analysis

After you have thoroughly assessed the lifecycle of your equipment, you will want to analyze your current processes and workflows to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas where productivity can be improved. 

Pinpoint areas where productivity and quality are impacted, and where costs are high. This will help you prioritize upgrades that will drive productivity and efficiency. Conduct root cause analysis to understand the underlying factors contributing to the identified issues and discover available solutions that could help lessen or remove your bottlenecks.

Our operational walkthrough program is built upon continuous improvement methods to help progress your business goals through strategic improvements on the factory floor. The program is designed to continually identify, assess, and realize projects that address pain points and improve bottom line performance.

Our operational walkthrough includes:

  • A readout with consultative recommendations from our team of industrial experts
  • A prioritized improvement strategy
  • A plan of action to deliver selected projects
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Assess your Risk

Safety First: Assess for Success

Through Rockwell Automation, we offer safety assessments to evaluate plant risk and help you make well-informed decisions to support the safety of your employees.

In addition, safety assessment services are scalable – offering options for you to meet your safety goals in a cost-effective and manageable manner across your entire enterprise, both locally and globally.

This strategy provides you the flexibility to focus on the key issues specific to your facility through the use of machine audits, guarding assessments, safety assessments and team-based risk assessments.
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Seek Input from Key Stakeholders

Individual Input for Collective Growth

Seek input from management, engineers, maintenance, operators and quality assurance to understand their current challenges, unique pain points and opportunities for improvement. By understanding each individuals' pain points, you will gain a better understanding of the state of your facility today to create your modernization improvements for tomorrow. 

Modernization can help not only the life and efficiency of your equipment, but also improve the job satisfaction and morale of all involved employees.

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Now that you know Where you are at, Find your Why

Each person involved in your manufacturing process has their own reasons for modernizing your facility. What are your objectives for modernization?

Modernization Solutions Contact Us Form: Use this form to connect with your local Account Manager to learn how we can help modernize your operation.