Lean Manufacturing solutions
Lean manufacturing can improve operational performance by lowering manufacturing costs, increasing on-time delivery, improving quality and customer service, and generating new sources of value. Businesses that want to take advantage of lean manufacturing, however, often struggle to move from a push-based forecast model to a pull-based model based on actual customer demand.
Technology solutions from Microsoft and its partners help you energize, transform, and sustain your lean initiatives and practices. These solutions upgrade paper-based functions—such as Kanban and value stream mapping—and improve product development and wider manufacturing information systems. By effectively managing your lean manufacturing process, your people can drive efficient success by reducing waste, inventory, and cycle times, while increasing quality, revenue, and profit margins.
Lean Manufacturing technologies
Why choose Microsoft technologies for lean manufacturing? Technology solutions from Microsoft are familiar and easy to use, and empower your people to leverage existing IT investments because they're easy to integrate with existing systems. In addition, the innovative and state-of-the art software from Microsoft is supported by a large partner ecosystem.
Highly customizable technologies from Microsoft can help you transform and sustain your lean operations. Key components provide the real-time information and collaboration tools that empower your people to amplify the impact of lean manufacturing by taking advantage of value stream mapping, eKanban, and a lean enterprise portal.
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 is a business process management (BPM) server that enables you to automate and optimize business processes. It includes powerful, familiar tools to design, develop, deploy, and manage those processes.
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
With Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, you can create and deploy electronic forms solutions to gather information efficiently and reliably. You can also use the Office InfoPath Forms Services capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to extend your business processes beyond your corporate firewall, delivering forms as Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail messages, Web browser forms, or forms for mobile devices.
The 2007 Microsoft Office system
Lean manufacturing process design solutions based on the 2007 Microsoft Office System help your people reduce lean manufacturing implementation costs, improve collaboration on lean manufacturing implementation, and enhance lean project progress tracking. The Microsoft Office system enables value stream mapping automation, automated identification of value stream improvement opportunities, auto-generated value stream improvement project plans, and a centralized location for value stream improvement project tracking, status, and reporting.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate, fragmented systems.
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 enables you to easily build value stream maps and to develop an electronic system of record for all of your value streams. With its new data-linking wizard, Office Visio 2007 is the perfect tool to not only draw value stream maps but also associate data so you can easily discover improvement opportunities.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a next-generation database management and analysis solution that delivers increased security, scalability, and availability to enterprise data and analytical applications, while making them easier to build, deploy, and manage. SQL Server 2005 enables enterprise applications that are more secure, scalable, and reliable; it maximizes IT productivity and shares data across multiple platforms, applications, and devices; and it controls costs without sacrificing performance, availability, scalability, or security.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is one of the most productive infrastructure platforms for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services—from the workgroup to the data center. Easy to deploy, manage, and use, Windows Server 2003 helps you build a secure IT infrastructure that provides a powerful application platform for quickly building connected solutions and an information worker infrastructure for enhanced communication and collaboration.
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