Digital Transformation in Manufacturing and Industrials

Food and beverage consumers increasingly seek safe, sustainable, affordable, and differentiated products. Producers face pressures including supply chain complexities and ever-shorter production cycles. 

SIG understands what’s at stake. The company’s customers fill more than 10,000 unique products into SIG packaging across 65 countries worldwide. In any given year, SIG produces tens of billions of carton packs.

SIG is now deploying GE Digital’s Predix Asset Performance Management (Predix APM) across more than 400 customer factories worldwide—as part of an end-to-end platform that provides data-driven intelligence for better predicting, managing, and servicing the entire lifecycle of SIG filling lines. The move is helping SIG and its customers reimagine their supply chains, enhance quality control technologies, and evolve their portfolios.

Polinter was looking to streamline various data sources—to reduce costs, improve operational excellence, and remain competitive. The company recognized the need to adapt its quality management program into an asset performance management (APM) solution.  

One critical part of merging Polinter’s quality management and APM programs together included incorporating a reliability process into existing quality management processes. Polinter developed four sub-processes: asset definition and classification, asset strategy management, asset performance evaluation, and recommendation management. These processes are driven by APM from GE Digital and support a continuous loop of improvement. 

Developing a single APM program incorporating both quality and asset management helped Polinter drive multiple benefits—including improving the mechanical availability in two out of three of its plants.

Today’s software and storage solutions can organize data, output automated reports, and create digital twins to support IT and OT needs alike. By standardizing data capture, analysis, and output, you can provide greater transparency and understanding among peer sets—making information more manageable and more easily available. And that’s just the beginning.

As you deploy new solutions and progress along your digital transformation journey, the potential for true IT/OT convergence, streamlined business operations, and optimized production increases.