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Our Approach

Our approach combines decades of experience, diversified client applications, seamless project management techniques and best practices in manufacturing system integration. Ensuring short term gains and long-term success in your journey towards operational excellence.

By working closely with your team, we quickly adapt our solution to your preferences. Enabling a constant and fluid transfer of knowledge, from start to finish.

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Discovery

As your business partner, we feel like getting to know you is key to understanding your challenges and opportunities. Therefore, we want to hear all about your global business objectives, project expectations and key concerns from the get-go.

This will help our team craft a digital vision and draft a solution bespoke to your organization.

Our goal: to determine the scope of your project and work together to make it a success.

Needs assessment

Global challenges and their impacts
Global needs, ambitions and expectations
Manufacturing processes overview
Information Technology ecosystem overview

Digital vision and solution framework

Priorities and strategic alignment
Key functionalities
Project team and roadmap

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Solution Design

We design solutions adapted to your current goals and ambitions, evolving over time to reach your future aspirations. This is why we seek to understand your reality and environment. Why we take the time to understand you and your business through open-ended questions and listening.

To do so, our experts conduct immersive work sessions with your team. Combined with our extensive industry know-how, these workshops allow us to define and document functional and technical requirements.

Resulting in solutions that are perfectly aligned with your needs and digital vision.

Immersion

Needs, challenges, goals and expectations by department
User and stakeholder interviews
Manufacturing processes and infrastructure
Working processes and methods
Key performance indicators
Information Technology infrastructure and ecosystem
Software and hardware criteria

Co-creation and expert work sessions

Functionalities and features
Information gathering metrics, measurement units, calculations, etc.
Architecture of systems and information
Software, technologies and hardware
User experience and interface design

Requirements documentation

Description of the solution and functionalities
Configuration and implementation plan and schedule
Project teams

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Solution Integration and Implementation

Building on over 25 years of experience, our team relies on advanced techniques to lead your projects to success.

By working in close collaboration with your teams, we oversee the project management and solution configuration. Plus, we share with you all the knowledge necessary to take full ownership of the solution as soon as it becomes operational.

By the end of this phase, you will be using the solution; immediately seeing and taking advantage of the benefits.

Configure, test, learn

Manual and automated data gathering code
Information exchange between systems and equipment
Analyses models and algorithms
Events configuration
Notifications
Technical and system integration tests
User tests

Solution implementation and knowledge transfer

Quality control
Transfer of knowledge to a “digital champion” in your team
Training of power users

Deployment

Readiness assessment and deployment plan
Deployment preparation and rehearsal
Go-live and stabilization
Transition to operations

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Support and Technical Assistance

Manufacturing challenges and processes change over time. Plus, moving to digital and automated processes require adjustments and adaptation. Rest assured, we are here for the long run.

Through follow-ups, we make sure all users — from the one entering information to the one analyzing it — are getting the most out of the solution.

As your teams discover the solution, and as business evolves, we help you grow towards your digital vision by scaling up the solution and building on new investment.