Digital Factory Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Digital Factory Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Digital Factory related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Digital Factory specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Digital Factory Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Digital Factory improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:

  1. How does your organization release more and more products of increasingly high quality with the same budget or less while still facing greater and greater time constraints?

  2. How to deliver integrated solutions across the business ecosystem targeting speed of execution & innovation including factory automation, IoT and analytics capabilities?

  3. How do leading companies transform themselves to create expanded and integrated sustainability models focused on profitably while creating positive environmental change?

  4. Has your organization posted strong financial and stock market performance, or has it turned around its business from losses or slow growth to get back on track?

  5. Who would be more suitable than the buyer to be the link between the suppliers with innovations and ideas and the internal customers with special requirements?

  6. What are features/aspects of a collaborative agreement that would be important for you and your organization in the area of digital manufacturing?

  7. Who are you partnering with to build scale, improve your relevance, or strengthen your competitive offering to members and prospective members?

  8. Do making the digital shift and integrating new technologies in your factory seem expensive, complex, and little suited to your environment?

  9. What is the most effective way to drive change in your organization and keep communicating with key employees throughout the transformation?

  10. What is the best way to evolve your organizational set up to deliver factory transformation based on your organizations digital maturity?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Digital Factory book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Digital Factory self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Digital Factory Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Digital Factory areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Digital Factory Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Digital Factory projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Digital Factory Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Digital Factory project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Duration Estimating Worksheet: How should ongoing costs be monitored to try to keep the Digital Factory project within budget?

  2. WBS Dictionary: Does the contractors system provide for the determination of cost variances attributable to the excess usage of material?

  3. Lessons Learned: How effective was the training you received in preparation for the use of the product/service?

  4. Change Management Plan: Why would a Digital Factory project run more smoothly when change management is emphasized from the beginning?

  5. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Identify potential or actual budget-based and time-based schedule variances?

  6. Procurement Audit: Were additional works strictly necessary for the completion of performance under the contract?

  7. Cost Management Plan: Does the schedule include Digital Factory project management time and change request analysis time?

  8. Activity Duration Estimates: Is there anything planned that does not need to be here?

  9. Cost Baseline: Is there anything you need from upper management in order to be successful?

  10. Schedule Management Plan: Were Digital Factory project team members involved in the development of activity & task decomposition?

 
Step-by-step and complete Digital Factory Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Digital Factory project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Digital Factory project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Digital Factory project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Digital Factory project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Digital Factory project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Digital Factory project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Digital Factory project with this in-depth Digital Factory Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Digital Factory projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Digital Factory and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Digital Factory investments work better.

This Digital Factory All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.