Figurate Automation

What best describes your manufacturing process?

You are primarily paper-based.

Your electronic recipes are developed locally with manual input.

Your master recipes are configured at site level, and your offline analytical data is linked to recipe execution.

Your predictive process adjustment is based on real-time analytics. Your LIMS, MES, and ERP are integrated.

You have adaptive management of supply chain, manufacturing and real-time release to market.

You have basic PLC controls with primarily manual processing.

You use PLC controls with some manual processes, such as equipment logbooks.

Your MES and process control layers are fully integrated.

Your process control is predictive with in-line monitoring, and integrated analytical devices.

You have automated adaptive process control and execute production without human intervention.

You don’t have a data historian. Your data collection is manual and paper-based.

Your data collection is performed at unit level, with some aggregation.

Your data historian collects data across sites. Your analytics are performed on demand.

You have centralized data collection, predictive production adjustment, and real-time product release.

Your adaptive facility uses data to create and approve new recipes. Automated analytics support real-time release.

You have paper batch records.

You use manual digital records, which are stored and not linked to a supervisory system.

Your batch records are paperless and automated, and reviewed by exception for all operations.

Data from your inline analytical devices populates batch records, driving predictive analytics.

Your integrated batch records have full traceability. Your adaptive analytics enable supply chain optimization.

You have no MES in place.

Your team is considering implementing a MES.

Your MES is integrated with your global enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Your MES facilitates real-time release of production batches. All your transactions are electronic.

Your MES is an independent plug and play package integrated with your hardware with zero maintenance.

You have paper ordering and supply contracts, but no enterprise resource planning (ERP).

You have an ERP system in place, through which you order materials from vendors.

Your ERP system is integrated with an MES layer. Your ordering is coordinated with your supplier's ERP systems.

Your ERP system is integrated with production and supply. You have security of supply with integrated suppliers.

Your ERP system is fully autonomous, schedules your production and orders all materials autonomously.

Microsoft Excel or spreadsheets are your reporting tool. You aggregate and analyze data manually.

You have offline reporting, on-demand analytics with manual data aggregation, and automated batch reporting.

Your analytics are semi-automated with islands of real-time process analytics.

You utilize real-time analytics, which predict events and increase operational excellence across your value chain.

Your plant is adaptive and autonomous, where exceptions are handled remotely.

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What best describes your manufacturing process?

What best describes your manufacturing approach?

What best describes your process data historian?

What best describes your batch records format?

What best describes your manufacturing execution system (MES)?

What best describes your manufacturing facility support and supply chain?

What best describes your manufacturing data analytics?

Digital modernization is an ongoing process and spans all aspects of an organization. How evolved is your business and what is the next level in your digital journey?

To find out, select the answers that best describe your organization. If you don’t know the answer, select the most likely choice.

Please rotate your device.

Discover yourdigital maturity

What best describes your manufacturing process?

What best describes your manufacturing approach?

What best describes your process data historian?

What best describes your batch records format?

What best describes your manufacturing execution system (MES)?

What best describes your manufacturing facility support and supply chain?

What best describes your manufacturing data analytics?

Digital modernization is an ongoing process and spans all aspects of an organization. How evolved is your business and what is the next level in your digital journey? To find out, select the answers that best describe your organization. If you don’t know the answer, select the most likely choice.

Discover your
digital maturity