Soar to new heights in the Industry 4.0 transformation
Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of Industry 4.0 presents a formidable task. And juggling supply chain, data insights, and security is no easy feat.
Which is why Lenovo’s vision is to get you back on track, to succeed even in the face of disruption. With rich, practical experience in IT and OT integration, robotics, automation, AI, data intelligence, and IoT, we’re committed to making our manufacturing solutions more accessible, reliable, and affordable than ever before.
The Lenovo difference
At Lenovo, we view ourselves as technology consultants and partners. This means that we care about your success and we’re here to ensure that you get maximum value out of your technology. That’s why all our solutions are accessible, affordable and reliable.
Accessible
We act as consultants, taking the time to understand your business priorities and challenges. This enables us to recommend the best solutions, including those you may not know exist.
Affordable
Based on your budget and objectives, we recommend solutions that deliver maximum value and return on investment for your unique situation.
Reliable
We provide end-to-end services throughout the entire journey, from consultancy to deployment and beyond. We stand by our customers, safeguarding their solutions long after the sale has been completed
Stay ahead with smart manufacturing solutions
The manufacturing industry, like everything else, is always evolving. New developments, such as AI, robotics, automations, IT/OT integrations, and data intelligence inevitably impact the way things are done.
Lenovo’s Smart Manufacturing brings your business up to speed and beyond. Through solutions in smart warehouse and intelligent shopfloor, and many more, we start with your vision to determine your unique solution roadmap which drives a full-scale implementation.
The Industry 4.0 Warehouse
Warehouse operations have never been so advanced with Lenovo. Among our sweepingly comprehensive range of Industry 4.0 technologies is a Warehouse Execution System that provides a unified data and command gateway, between a management and control system, so operations achieve maximum productivity.
The Industry 4.0 Shopfloor
Lenovo’s intelligent shopfloor fuses the most advanced Industry 4.0 technologies into a whole to deliver shopfloor operational excellence. From edge cloud collaboration to robotic inspections and industrial AR management can make truly informed factory floor decisions.
Lenovo Industrial Computer Vision
Capture, analyze, and interpret the real-time visual data for different use scenarios, including quality inspection, safety supervision, equipment monitoring, and general monitoring. With this service, you’ll find it easy to have an always-on, reliable, and precise monitoring assistant so you can ensure high quality at every stage of the process.
Lenovo ESG Navigator
Tackle challenges such as ineffective data collection and analysis, complex management processes, and diverse stakeholder expectations. It not only effectively reduces the human costs associated with ESG management, but also enhances standardization and flexibility, improves efficiency, and offers exceptional scalability and industry adaptability.
Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI)
Get immediate visibility, coordination, and management across the entire supply chain ecosystem. By aggregating data from various sources, it encapsulates the journey from data and insights to decisions and actions. Plus, the heightened visibility helps you with end-to-end transparency, so you can monitor key performance indicators, track inventory in real-time, and anticipate market demand.
Smart results start with Smart Manufacturing
Our approach to Smart Manufacturing means you can get your work done faster, easier, and more effectively.
Identify
We identify the customer’s vision, key strategy, and current challenges.
Provide
We provide a specific proposal tailored to you, with prioritization, project scope, and solution roadmap.
Verify
We verify the minimum viable product in Proof of Concept, to ensure maximum results.
Implement
With the results and learnings, we roll-out the full-scale implementation.
Turning manufacturing green
As part of the planning process, Lenovo’s factory in Tianjin is being designed to become Lenovo’s first carbon neutral Smart Manufacturing Exhibition Center. The goal is twofold: successfully applying our smart manufacturing solutions and making it greener. The manufacturing functions showcase our intelligent manufacturing capabilities: a solar power system runs the factory with renewable energy; lower carbon alternatives are used throughout construction, manufacturing, and logistics operations.
FAQs
How can AI be applied in manufacturing?
AI can be applied in many aspects of manufacturing: quality inspection, equipment monitoring and maintenance, security and safety monitoring, predictive maintenance, production planning, and production incident management.
Is ESG important in manufacturing?
ESG is no longer just about being socially responsible or reducing costs. When prioritized, it also helps to ensure worker safety and well-being, and longer term to increase competitiveness. The growing pressure of regulatory compliance is adding urgency to the need for an ESG strategy. And any ESG practices should also now extend across the entire supply chain.
What is Lenovo’s smart manufacturing initiative?
Like any manufacturing company, Lenovo continually strives to improve quality, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Our smart manufacturing strategy is based on the 4 goals of intelligent decision, high quality products, precision delivery, and personalized customization ─ and executed through 18 key capabilities.
The initiative enabled us to launch our first smart factory in Shenzhen in 2022, followed by a zero-carbon factory in Tianjin in 2023. Several technologies were leveraged, including AI, robotic automation, digital twin, blockchain, IOT, and edge. Our smart manufacturing scope now extends beyond manufacturing to cover the entire supply chain. As a result of this, we were ranked #8 in Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 in 2023.
How do you measure the ROI of the smart manufacturing initiative and what matrices are used to measure its success?
The success of smart manufacturing is measured against the 4 goals set out for the initiative. In general, our KPIs haven’t changed, e.g. quality, cost, and efficiency, but they needed to be more quantifiable. Because investments in smart manufacturing should far exceed the returns from traditional automation.
Can you share any insights on how smart manufacturing is transforming supply chain management?
Supply chain is now an integral extension of manufacturing. It impacts cost, efficiency, and quality. With the increasing pressure to respond to the fast-changing direction of businesses, greater visibility, management and control over every aspect of the supply chain will be crucial to ensuring goals are met. Direct integration between supply chain systems and OT systems, as well as the merging of data from both sources, will be needed to empower decision making. Complete real-time visibility of every part of the supply chain is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity.
Overcome challenges with the right tech to support you
As manufacturers ourselves, we understand the host of challenges that you face on a daily basis. But as the industry evolves, new developments such as robotics, automation, AI, OT integration, and data intelligence evolve alongside it to help combat these disruptions.
With Lenovo, you can rest assured that you’ll always be ahead of the game, with access to cutting-edge yet affordable products and solutions to help you achieve your future success and business goals.
Enhance productivity with smart, flexible manufacturing services
Whether you’re looking to scale or simplify, optimize processes or improve operational excellence, you need the right services to drive your organization forward. Lenovo’s full lifecycle services will help you at every stage of the process, from consulting and deployment to management and support. So you can empower your business, drive results, and reach your goals, without compromising on quality.
Ready to reach your Industry 4.0 potential?
The next chapter in manufacturing is unfolding. Talk to our team about how Lenovo can help you get prepared for it and lay the foundations for business success.
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