Paperless Shopfloor
Supporting Digital Transformation of AEI Operations
Supporting the Digital Transformation of Asahi Europe & International Operations to Support a Paperless Shop Floor
Committed to their World Class Manufacturing capability, AEI looked to take a digital transformation journey to enable their paperless shopfloor vision.
The Problem
Data, Digitalisation, Standardization
Approach
Implementation with Standardization and Customisation
After a comprehensive selection process, AEI selected Zaptic as their partner of choice. Zaptic’s Connected Worker Platform allows customers to set standardized procedures and tasks whilst still allowing customisation per site, per line, supporting a paperless shopfloor.
“Zaptic gives us flexibility as it is ‘no code’, meaning it can be adjusted at any time and we can manage it ourselves.”
Tomasz Miazek, Manufacturing Development Manager
Damien Lienart explains:
“For us, Zaptic was the most user friendly solution we have seen. And also, the implementation of the platform and the process was structured enough but not too complex and too heavy for our team.
We had really a great connection with the Zaptic team and it has been confirmed that our choice was good because of agility, the reactivity of the team and the strong support we had.”
Outcome
PRODUCTIVITY
“The benefit is that we could eliminate processes without added value. And we are more connected. Our team leaders in the packaging line previously spent more time collecting data. This is now time saved.”
Lorenzo Morena, WCM Manager, Italy says about Zaptic’s implementation and contribution towards the digitalisation journey.
STANDARDS ADHERENCE
“With Zaptic, we are able to monitor the compliance of the execution and it's a key game changer for us because without any effort you are able to get this information and in case there is an issue, you have a warning, you can report this and you can discuss the routines and to take the decision very close to the event and close to the operators.”
Damien Lienart, Head of E2E Performance
One of the key challenges AEI was facing was around shop floor data collection, standardization and analysis to be able to make key improvements.
BETTER DATA, BETTER INFORMED DECISIONS
Marek Gieburowski explains: “In terms of data collection and data management Zaptic gives us a lot more information than we had before. Now we see what has been done exactly at what time.”
Simone Lopomo, Line Manager in Rome explains the benefits of having a mobile, user-friendly solution on the shopfloor:
"We are able to collect data on the problem live on the machine. So at the moment it's happening - we can do it directly on the machine. That's very helpful because we can have a lot more details and we can be more precise with the information we have."
NEXT STEPS
All breweries that visit the pilot site want to have Zaptic as soon as possible. We had really a great connection with the Zaptic team and it has been confirmed that our choice was good because of agility, the reactivity of the team and the strong support we had.
Damien Lienart, Head of E2E Performance
“Finally, I think the biggest opportunity is that we are moving to more data-led solutions and this is where we, with CWP, can use knowledge management to digitalize. We will be able to move ahead with artificial intelligence opportunities as a next step.
Zaptic continues to support AEI in achieving a paperless shopfloor, accelerating manufacturing excellence and their digital transformation journey.
So now with Zaptic, I go with my phone, I write everything. I take a photo so it's easy to remember and do everything like I should. It’s easy, I like Zaptic.
Magdalena Papis - Packaging Operator, Tychy Plant
