AVEVA, a international leader in engineering and industrial software, has unveiled its new Discrete Lean Management software to assist digital transformation in the discrete manufacturing market1. The new offering improves operational efficiency via the digitalization of lean work management for both manual and automatic production lines. AVEVAs quick-to-deploy and convenient to use digital equipment enable access to production information, KPIs and notifications on dashboards, workstations and mobile devices to enhance overall tools and labor effectiveness, and to facilitate data-driven non-stop improvement.

AVEVA Discrete Lean Management is designed to tackle the problems faced by operating manufacturing flora still using paper-based systems for lean and work order management, work instructions and data collection procedures. It enables physical records to be changed with digital equipment that mitigate the risk of manual procedures and gives actual time visibility into production performance permitting group collaboration in response to manufacturing issues.

AVEVA Discrete Lean Management is the outcome of our close collaboration with Schneider-Electric and has been already successfully deployed as a digital lean system to many of their plants globally. We are excited to be able to announce the general availability of these validated lean and industry excellent practices to all our clients to assist enhance their manufacturing productivity and profitability, and also jumpstart their smart manufacturing and digital transformation journeys, commented Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President, Planning and Operations at AVEVA.

Yielding Successful Results in Schneider Electric Manufacturing Plants
The AVEVA Discrete Lean Management software solution is used in Schneider Electrics manufacturing plants and has been effectively deployed in more than 70 smart factories globally ensuing a 10% productivity increase due to downtime mitigation and 70% elevated response-time due to automatic escalation of manufacturing issues.

The World Economic Forum has commended four of Schneider Electrics Smart Factories for comprehensively deploying a broad range of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and use cases at scale, while retaining people and sustainability at the heart of their innovation strategies.

We are delighted at the outcomes weve carried out to date by deploying the AVEVA Discrete Lean Management solution in our manufacturing plants, as part of our Smart Factory initiative, commented Hany Fouda, VP Systems Portfolio, Process Automation, Schneider Electric. Our Smart Factory program is targeted on deploying technology that is convenient to enforce and scale quickly, which includes our EcoStruxure solutions, to supply effectivity and sustainability. AVEVAs solution helped us attain those desires by facilitating downtime mitigation and enhancing response time. We are assured that AVEVA is getting into the Discrete Lean Management market at exactly the proper time as demand hastens for software solutions that can yield these sorts of results.

The solution additionally helps to limit the number of manual production and lean data collection tasks leveraging the full range of AVEVAs connectivity to IoT devices and over 200 plant automation systems. AVEVAs international presence and partner ecosystem enable manufacturing companies to execute their Industry 4.0 and manufacturing operations transformation strategies. It is available as a part of the AVEVA Flex subscription program, designed to provide clients complete flexibility in the procurement, design, management and utilisation of their industrial manipulate systems, empowering clients to undertake transformative technologies quicker and simpler than ever.