IoE Maurity Assessment

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1 How many employees does your organization have?

2 What are your organization’s annual sales (in US$ million)?
In USD Million

3 What is your organization’s operating margin?

4 How many plants does your organization have worldwide?

5 What is the average size of a plant in millions of square feet?

6 What is the value of the plant and equipment in your organization (in US$ million)?
In USD Million

7 How would you describe your organization’s sub-industry category?

8 Who has overall accountability for manufacturing in your organization:

9 To whom does the head of manufacturing production operations report in the organization?

10 Are your supply chain operations centralized or decentralized?

1 Does your organization have corporate initiatives related to IoT or IoE?

2 Do you have established governance processes in place (technology and systems, change management processes, communications and training, success metrics and performance management, risk assessment, etc.)?

3 What is the likely time frame for implementing IoE in your organization?

4 Have you established accountability for delivery of business value from IoE overall or by activity, or both?

1 What is the extent of automation in your manufacturing processes?

2 Which of your business processes are digitalized (M2M interaction)? (Check all that apply.)
XNew product development or R&D

XManufacturing

XSupply chain

XSales and marketing

XService and support

XNone of the above

XNot sure

3 To what extent are you using Ethernet with IP in your industrial automation and control system (IACS) networks?

4 Do you have visibility at the device level to monitor energy usage and adjust devices for optimal consumption?

5 Have you seen an improvement in energy efficiency or reduction in your carbon footprint for the same level of production over the past 5 years?

6 Is convergence between information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) networks a stated priority?

7 To what extent are your IT and OT networks converged?

8 Do you have a network standard for your plant IACS?

9 Are you planning to use cell-level industrial firewalls to secure your plant?

10 To what degree are you using wireless technology in your production processes?

11 To what degree are you using sensors in your production processes?

12 Do you use robots on the production floor?

13 What percentage of your machines and devices (robots, tools, sensors, etc.) are connected in the cell to the programmable logic controller (PLC) or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems?

14 What percentage of your machines and devices are connected so that they are visible to higher-level applications?

15 Do you have predictive maintenance enabled for critical machines on the production floor?

1 Which of your business processes are digitalized (M2P interaction)? (Check all that apply.)
XNew product development or R&D

XManufacturing

XSupply chain

XSales and marketing

XService and support

XNone of the above

XNot sure

2 Do you have predictive maintenance enabled for critical machines on the production floor?

3 To what extent do you have mobile visibility into controls and network status?

4 Do you have secure visibility outside the plant for remote experts?

5 Do you have visibility to production status, downtime, quality, etc.?

6 Do you use voice picking to enhance the productivity of your production personnel?

7 Do you plan to use augmented reality to enhance the productivity of your production personnel?

8 Do you have the capability to monitor plant networks and security threats remotely?

9 Do you have real-time visibility into the assembly-line processes?

10 Do you have visibility at the device level to monitor energy use and adjust devices for optimal consumption?

11 Have you seen an improvement in energy efficiency or reduction in your carbon footprint for the same level of production over the past 5 years?

12 How quickly are you able to change your production batches in response to demand and supply changes?

13 Does the machine operator have visibility into the end-customer order?

14 Do you have automated Design for x (DFx) capabilities that automatically guide product development teams to components that meet cost, quality, and manufacturability requirements?

15 Do your customers know when the truck is going to arrive with the shipment and visibility into what is on the truck?

16 Do you use big data analytics to gain insights into customer behavior?

17 Do customers have electronic access to or receive product data (product numbers, features, prices, etc.) from your organization?

18 Can customers enter their orders directly into your organization’s IT system over the Internet?

19 Are you using wireless or mobility solutions to enhance your customers' buying experience?

20 Are you using wireless or mobility solutions to enhance your customers' buying experience?

1 Are development teams co-located or distributed?

2 Do you use remote visual collaboration through different stages of product development?

3 During the new-product introduction (NPI) phase, does your organization enable knowledge workers and manufacturing subject-matter expert (SME) mobility?

4 Do cross-functional teams collaborate on a regular basis to match resources and capacity to customer demand?

Results

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IoE Mature
Taking full advantage of IoE and leveraging it to drive new business capabilities, insights and innovations
3
IoE Ready
Have plans and/ or the capabilities to take advantage of IoE but with limited current operationalization
2
Advanced Automation
Aware of the market transitions and realizing machine to machine benefits; collecting data from machines but not integrating it with people and process
1
IoE Aware
Aware of market transitions with plans underway but not realizing any benefits currently
0
IoE Unaware
Unaware of the IoE market transitions going on and no plans to take advantage of IoE in business processes

Total Value from IoE

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Employee Productivity

Employee Productivity/ Remote expert collaboration
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Engineer time savings and headcount optimization through expedited issue resolution and utilization with visual collaboration between plant engineers, quality engineers and supply chain partners. Remote access to diagnosis system, decision making support for remote or onsite maintenance operations and remote update of machinery.

Contractor Uptime and Administration Productivity
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Improvement in provisioning and clearance time of contractors through secure, role-based access and application mobility within the production environment.

Faster Time to Proficiency with Improved Training
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Communication solutions and collaboration tools help accelerate training programs and improve their effectiveness.

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Asset Utilization

Maintenance and Asset Management
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Reduction in production delays through leverage of sensors and wi-fi tagging to manage tool, parts and other assets within the factory, warehouse or staging facility. Reduction in production machinery downtime through preventive maintenance & troubleshooting leveraging embedded sensors and analytics for real-time prediction of machinery failure.

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Physical Security

Employee Safety and Compliance
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Improved worker safety and security through Video Surveillance and activity tracking throughout production environment and especially in hazardous areas.

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Facilities & Travel Cost Reduction

Reduced Electricity and Facilities Costs
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Networked energy and HVAC systems leveraging analytics to measure and control energy consumption and reduce facility costs.

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Manufacturing & Supply chain

Plant Uptime and Quality
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Correlating data from networked machinery, supply chain assets, production planning, and quality systems to produce insights leading to improved scheduling & planning of production, connected automation network and real-time condition & monitoring management.

Network and OT systems TCO: Infrastructure
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Converged, secure network and collaboration platforms that save systems cost.

Network and OT Systems TCO: OpEx
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Converged, secure network and collaboration platforms that save operating costs.

Cabling Cost Avoidance with Wireless I/O
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Cabling cost avoidance using wireless I/O that transmit information over wireless links. Signals including switch status or analog signals are transmitted from a remote location to a monitoring or control system. Wireless I/O connects directly to analog, discrete and pulse transducer signals.

Cabling Cost Avoidance with Wireless Controls
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Cabling cost avoidance using wireless controller solutions that create self-healing and self-optimizing wireless networks, optimize overall network capacity and provide robust protection for the entire wireless network.

Compute Optimization (ACI)
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Leveraging an Application Centric Infrastructure(ACI) in the Data Center with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance. Operational savings and service delivery improvement.

Real Time Supply Chain
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Connected warehouse for monitoring of duties inbound, outbound, losses, integration of connected warehouse data into ERP systems, sourcing and supplier collaboration, real-time visibililty in supply chain and Analytics-driven supplier relationship management.

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New Business Models

Accelerated new product introduction (NPI)
Percentage of Total Value: XX% or $XX M
Product development through connected smart customer insights, faster time to market by avoiding artificial data generation using prototype, carrying out analysis using analytics on demand, avoiding budget-overrun and delays using prescriptive Analytics for smart and quick decisions, and integrating processes and PLM & ERP systems to speed up collaboration.

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