Shopfloor digitization

Store floor digitization with Simplifier

Increase your OEE by 5-15 percentage points

Why does store floor digitization often fail?

Sticking to the manual status quo

Media disruptions between paper, Excel and isolated solutions prevent end-to-end digitization
Lack of real-time transparency: KPIs are outdated, reactions take too long
Manual data entry causes errors, effort and downtime

Inflexible store floor solutions

Standard software enforces processes instead of mapping real requirements
Updates and adjustments are limited and often cause new problems instead of progress.
Isolated solutions prevent integration beyond the store floor

Mindset slows down progress

Decisions are postponed, responsibilities are unclear
Pilot projects simulate progress, but are not scalable
Existing system boundaries are accepted and prevent true digitalization

Did you know?

65% OEE is average in the German manufacturing industry. World-class is 85%+. This 20 percentage point gap costs a medium-sized plant €2-5 million in opportunity costs per year.

Improve KPIs sustainably

Through digital solutions – perfectly tailored to you.

Tailor-made instead of off the peg

No two store floors are the same. That’s why we have developed templates that we adapt to your individual requirements – not the other way around. This way you avoid compromises, workarounds and later restrictions.

Future-proof instead of short-term "fit"

What is sufficient today will become a problem tomorrow. Individual solutions grow with your processes, can be expanded and remain stable in the long term – even if requirements, quantities or structures change.

Your processes set the pace

Standard software is based on assumptions, not on your reality. We digitize your historically grown store floor processes exactly as they work today – without detours, without conversion, without frictional losses.

KPI improvements from practice

Top 5 store floor use cases

1. fault management / incident management

Eliminate downtime faster – reduce MTTR by 25-40

Mobile fault detection with GPS, photo, video
Push notifications to the right technician
Central database for Pareto analysis
Preventive measures based on data

Impact KPIs

MTTR: -25-40% (e.g. from 60 → 36-45 min)
UDT: -15-25%
Reason code coverage: >85%
Savings of 50,000 – 200,000 € per year

Customer opinion

“With Simplifier, we can now see incidents in real time. The central database helps us to identify high-risk production phases and take preventative action.”

2. digital store floor management with boards

Increase OEE through real-time transparency

Interactive store floor boards on large touchscreens
KPI reporting in real time (OEE, availability, performance, quality)
Issue tracking with clear responsibilities
Data integration from SAP, MES, machines, documents

Impact KPIs

OEE-A: +3-8 percentage points
Plan fulfillment: +7-10 percentage points
Reporting time: -80% (5 days → 1 day)
200,000 – 450,000 € per year

Customer opinion

“Managers save a lot of time as manual reports no longer need to be created. All employees have direct access to up-to-date information.”

3. BDE / digital workbench

Increase performance – process production orders end-to-end

Central registration/deregistration of production orders
Setup/personnel/machine times automatically recorded
Automatic SAP feedback without media discontinuity
Prioritized order list and multi-machine operation

Impact KPIs

Performance: +3-7 percentage points
Changeover time: -15-25%
Data completeness: >95%
180,000 – 400,000 € per year

Customer opinion

“With Simplifier, all the necessary functions could be bundled in one application. Parallel time recording now brings clear efficiency benefits”

4. digital work instructions

Increase quality – improve FPY by 3-7 percentage points

Step-by-step instructions with images/videos/AR
Guided editing – no step can be skipped
Automatic quality checks integrated
Dashboard integration for KPI tracking

Impact KPIs

FPY: +3-7 percentage points (e.g. from 88% → 94%)
Scrap rate: -30-50%
Onboarding time: -50-80%
60,000 – 160,000 € per year

Customer opinion

“97% reduction in errors by avoiding incorrect entries. New employees are trained more quickly.”

5. smart maintenance / maintenance dashboard

Preventive instead of reactive – increase OEE-B by 5-12 percentage points

Real-time monitoring of machines and systems
Definable threshold values for critical parameters
Push notifications when exceeded
Trend analysis for preventive maintenance

Impact KPIs

OEE-B: +5-12 percentage points
PDT: -20-30% (optimization of planned downtimes)
MTBF: +25-40%
Breakdown reduction: -40-60%
350,000 – 700,000 € per year

Customer opinion

“Machine downtimes are avoided because the systems are continuously monitored. The configuration level is 99%.”

References

Some of our store floor customers

Bürkert

Digital Shopfloor Management Board

KPI improvements:

Managers save considerable time (no manual reports)
100% real-time transparency
Continuous process optimization

SAERTEX

Loading control

KPI improvements:

9 days time saving/month
97% Troubleshooting
93,000 € savings/year

HF Mixing Group

BDE

KPI improvements:

1,600 working hours saved per year
Up to 10% increase in production capacity
50,000 € / year less costs for maintenance, support and IT

Felix Schoeller

Digital goods receipt

KPI improvements:

55% increase in data quality
100% more transparency
70 days time saving/year

Hako

Digital store floor management

KPI improvements:

Increased transparency in assembly plants
Measure team KPIs in one tool
Easy access to assembly documentation

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