Dr. Saul Reichman
Global Director of Innovation & Head of Corporate Venturing
Enabling a digital transformation.
Maxion is on a path towards digital transformation on a global scale. Yearly, they produce over 50 million wheels and employ over 10,000 employees at 23 manufacturing sites. But bridging the gap between physical processes at manufacturing plants and information technology can be complex.
Goals with SwipeGuide:
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Harvest data from checklists.
Quality control checklists were created and processed on paper by several people, multiple times per day. Digitizing checklists became imperative to improve data collection.
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Faster content creation.
Before SwipeGuide, creating work instructions took more than 4 hours.
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Digitizing standards.
The company decided to hire new employees to lead the effort of fully digitizing their SOPs and checklists.
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Ease-of-use.
Maxion was looking for a platform to reduce instruction authoring time and improve general ease of use.
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Better visuals.
Key requirements included being able to create gifs, micro-videos, and images.
Visual aids and knowledge crowdsourcing.
Maxion's ultimate goal was to drive SOP adoption. This would put them in a stronger position to improve engineering and quality standards over time.
Achievements:
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Compliance tracking.
The pilot showed that compliance tracking is made easier with SwipeGuide’s digital work instruction platform. The company has seen gains in both productivity and training effectiveness.
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Better visuals = better work.
With SwipeGuide, Maxion employees can easily create instructions with clear visuals aids and also submit feedback from the shop floor.
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Crowdsourced expertise.
Supervisors can crowdsource the most effective and relevant knowledge and share data across multiple sites.
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Easy reporting.
Digitized checklists allow them to upload data into Excel spreadsheets automatically and create reports.
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