Bridge, Digital Manufacturing Software Solution
Business Solutions
Bridge provides agile solutions to address your specific business needs
PRODUCT AND PROCESS ENGINEERING
Capabilities:
- SOP Modeling
Leverage various media to address the full scope of manufacturing, including documents, links, digital checklists, workflows, specifications, and step-by-step executable processes.
- Formal Version Management
Ensure robust tracking and management of document versions.
- Flexible Workflow Approvals
Facilitate approvals by role and assignment, supporting both serial and parallel workflows.
- Feedback Loops
Enable seamless feedback from the shop floor to document authors.
- In-Context Document Access
Provide error-proof and fast execution through immediate access to relevant documents.
Business Outcomes:
- Process Rationalization
Adopt an “object-oriented” approach of standard operating procedures, and facilitate and encourage reuse.
- New Product / Process Introduction Acceleration
Reduce diversity (fewer moving parts) and formalize instructions, execution, and feedback loops
- Master Data Management Cost Reduction
Focus on net changes.
- Error Proofing and Traceability
Reduce risk of errors with clean versioning and systematic workflows.
OPERATION, PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
Capabilities:
- In-Context Access
Provide process documents and enforce SOPs within the workflow.
- Digital Training and Certification Management
Manage training and certifications digitally, including certification interlocking.
- Electronic Work Instructions
Offer detailed work instructions with feedback loops to engineering.
- Event-Driven Checklists
Implement electronic checklists triggered by events such as product on the line, machine status, operator check-in, shift changes, and recurring or scheduled events.
- Internal Messaging
Facilitate alerts and temporary work instructions through integrated messaging.
- Real-Time Control
Ensure real-time product and process control against specifications, with interlocking mechanisms.
- Quality and Maintenance Alerts
Provide timely alerts for quality and maintenance issues.
- Equipment Maintenance and Calibration
Manage recurrent maintenance and calibration of equipment.
- Safety Procedures Digitalization
Digitize and track safety procedures for enhanced compliance.
Business Outcomes:
- Productivity Improvement
Capacity, efficiency, quality/rework.
- Less Production accidents and incidents linked to training
Secured, simplified and formalized on-boarding. Trainees formally managed on the line. Access to the up-to-date procedures in one click.
- Reactivity and consistency
Real time alerting and process enforcement.
- Agility improvement
Operator polyvalence and notifications.
- Compliance and risk reduction
Certification tracking, process enforcement, traceability.
- Global agility
Facilitated move of processes and lines between plants.
Quality and Regulatory
Capabilities:
- Quality Plan Modeling
Integrate quality plans seamlessly with manufacturing processes.
- Process Enforcement
Implement real-time alerting and escalation to ensure process adherence.
- Training and Certification Management
Plan, deliver, enforce, and trace formal training and certifications.
- Formal Process Modeling
Utilize version-based process modeling with electronic workflows.
- Defect Tracking and Management
Formally track defects and manage root causes and non-conformance issues. Record visual defects and perform detailed analytics.
- Integrated CAPA and FMEA processes
Integrate Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) with defect tracking.
Business Outcomes:
- Quality Management Cost Reduction
Adjust quality inspection process and corrective actions dynamically.
Provide easy and quick access to as-designed, as-produced and as-tested data.
Automate CAPA processes and link CAPA initiatives to production issues and claims.
- Non-Conformance Frequency And Impact Reduction
Formalize training and certification.
Guide the users and control conforming and non-conforming processes.
Interlock quality deviations in real time.
- Risk Reduction (compliance, recalls, safety…)
Trace and link all design changes and production events as well as training and certification aspects.
Share product and process traceability information with partners.
- Permanent Improvement Initiatives Efficiency Improvement
Link incidents to root causes and root causes to action plans.
Access execution data easily.
Implement process changes (change notification and enforcement) in minutes with not need of IT or developers.
Human Resources
Capabilities:
- Employee And Contractor Identification
Manage identification for employees, contractors, and temporary workers, including ID cards and keyless access to manufacturing applications.
- Training Plan Definition And Execution
Plan and anticipate training needs. Execute self and group training, either planned or spontaneous, as well as classroom and “on-the-line” coaching sessions.
- Certifications Management
Provide support for multilevel and binary certifications (ILUO / Magic Square model). Manage expirations based on time and skill usage. Send/receive internal messages and alerts instead of corporate emails.
Business Outcomes:
- Accelerated Onboarding and Cost Reduction
Streamline the onboarding process to quickly integrate new employees while reducing associated costs.
- Enhanced Skills Management
Improve skills tracking and proactively manage skill gaps with a structured skills pyramid.
- Alignment Of Skills With Product Requirements
Ensure that employee skills are consistently aligned with evolving product demands.
- Improved Safety and Data Protection
Enhance workplace safety and protect sensitive data through robust processes and controls.
- Increased Compliance
Strengthen compliance with certification requirements and production/quality audits, ensuring readiness for certification audits.