Building Materials
Deliver maximum safety, quality, and productivity in Building Materials Manufacturing with Augmentir’s AI-powered Connected Worker platform
The building materials industry is currently facing significant challenges as it grapples with high workforce turnover, pronounced skills gaps, and unprecedented demand. Manufacturers are struggling to retain skilled workers, leading to frequent disruptions in production and a loss of valuable expertise. The skills gap further exacerbates this issue, as the industry finds it difficult to attract and train new talent with the necessary competencies to meet modern manufacturing requirements. Concurrently, the demand for building materials is at an all-time high, driven by robust construction activities and infrastructure projects. This surge in demand is compounded by soaring prices of raw materials, which strain profit margins and operational budgets. Additionally, customer expectations have intensified, with a growing demand for higher quality, sustainability, and faster delivery times. Navigating these challenges requires strategic investments in workforce development, technological advancements, and supply chain optimization to ensure the industry can meet evolving market needs.
Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform helps to digitize plant operations and empowers shop floor workers in the building materials industry by helping digitize and standardize frontline operations processes to improve accountability, traceability, and data reporting.
The building materials industry experiencing the impact of significant shifts in the workforce and a tight labor market. With average employee tenure rates decreasing and industrial workforce experience levels at an all-time low, frontline worker skills tracking and training is now a key strategy for winning.
Building materials manufacturers use Augmentir to facilitate their workers’ access to critical information they need daily to keep production lines performing at the highest levels of quality and throughput. Augmentir serves as a single mobile interface for operators and frontline staff to learn how to operate equipment, troubleshoot issues, execute standard work and track plant maintenance activities.
Augmentir’s AI-powered connected worker platform helps to digitize plant operations and empowers shop floor workers in the building materials industry by helping digitize and standardize frontline operations processes to improve accountability, traceability, and data reporting.
Focus on creating a routine and systematic process for monitoring, managing, and continuously improving daily work at the operational level.
Schedule and assign standard work (Operator Rounds, Safety Audits, CILs, Centerlining procedures) and visually audit the work being done with built-in scheduled work reporting. Augmentir’s visual dashboards help you digitize your daily management system.
AI-based operational insights allow companies to identify opportunities to support workforce development programs uncover opportunities for improving worker skills and driving continuous improvement throughout the organization.
Improve digital capabilities in your plant by moving away from paper-based and static work instructions and SOPs. Interactive digital work instructions help to reduce errors and operational downtime and deliver improved quality and productivity across manufacturing operations, while also providing new data to support continuous improvement initiatives. Augmentir helps across a range of use cases:
Digitize your lockout tagout procedures to ensure compliance and safeguard workers from hazardous situations. Remote approvals ensure safety and compliance.
Reduce equipment setup time and process variability and increases your flexibility to meet customer demands. Step-by-step, digital instructions help ensure upgrades or changeovers are completed correctly, and integration with an MES or ERP system provides enterprise visibility.
Augmentir helps standardize and optimize quality assurance and inspection procedures. Digital work instructions help workers perform inspection checks that involve visual inspections, meter readings, fluid level checks, etc.
Digitize food safety audits to reduce friction and increase data analysis capability.
Ensure equipment uptime and yield and improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of operator care routines performed by plant management, operations, and maintenance.
Improve the quality, transparency, and efficiency of preventative maintenance procedures. Digital work instructions and remote expert assistance helps guide maintenance staff with more efficient maintenance and repair, resulting in minimized machine downtime.
“The Augmentir platform has helped us accelerate our digitization efforts across our entire global manufacturing operation, and has transformed our cleaning, changeover, quality inspection, and maintenance processes within our plants. Furthermore, Augmentir’s intuitive user interface and ease of authoring allowed us to put the control of procedure digitization in the hands of our regional plant managers, allowing us to drive positive impact to quality and productivity on a global basis.”
Sr. Director, Global Engineering, Fortune 500 Manufacturer
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