CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced recently that CDC Factory, the first packaged manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution, has been certified by SAP as a NetWeaver Composite Application.
CDC Factory is the industrys first and only packaged manufacturing operations management system that leverages human capital in plant operations and standardizes the best practices of lean manufacturing, OEE, (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and continuous improvement. With the certified integration, SAP customers can establish a real-time framework that unlocks hidden capacity on the factory floor by managing production scheduling in real time, pinpointing the causes of plant inefficiencies and providing immediate feedback on key operating metrics including rate, yield, utilization and per unit cost.
The system focuses on unlocking the potential of human capital on the shop floor by providing pre-defined workflows for the environment of the workplace and a highly intuitive kiosk-style interface for real-time performance tracking. This enables factory floor operators to act on information in real time and make immediate decisions to adjust production schedules, improve OEE and reduce waste. This role-based design extends to middle and senior management where information is summarized to make the daily operations of all plants throughout the enterprise transparent. Since CDC Factory is a packaged solution specifically designed for process manufacturers in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries, it is often installed and producing results in eight weeks or less.
CDC Factory SAPConnect is a packaged composite application (PCA) that integrates CDC Factory with SAPs ERP applications. In addition to the certified integration for SAP, CDC Factory is deployed and integrated with many of the industrys leading ERP applications.
