Foxconn

Faster detection of production defects: Foxconn cut time to insight from hours to minutes

With faster access to production data, key production reports are now created in 15 minutes instead of the original 6 hours.

Time to insight from hours to minutes

Production reports in 15 minutes

Czech Republic

Manufacturing

5000+ employees

Voice of the customer

Tomáš Bachorík

Director Of Operations, Foxconn CZ

Use cases

Reporting and analysis of production defects

Analysis of production productivity and efficiency

Technologies used

Qlik Sense

Qlik NPrinting

Problem

As production capacity and order volumes in the Czech Republic gradually increased, the complexity of Foxconn’s IT environment and the amount of available data grew significantly. Information was coming from many different departments, making it increasingly difficult to gain a unified, up-to-date, and clear overview.
 
Traditional reporting based on MS Excel and heavy reliance on the IT department was no longer sufficient. The existing tools could not efficiently handle very large volumes of data or answer new analytical questions focused on the root causes of problems. This slowed down decision-making, reduced flexibility, and limited the ability to respond quickly to changes in production.

Solution

EMARK helped Foxconn connect production, logistics and quality data from key systems into one analytics environment, giving business users faster access to data and enabling them to identify the root causes of production defects more quickly. AAs a result, Foxconn significantly reduced the time needed to prepare reports and gave business users greater independence in working with data.

Before

Difficult and slow identification of root causes in production issues
Limited ability to analyze large volumes of data
Reporting mainly based on MS Excel and MS Access
Strong business dependence on the IT department

After

Significant reduction in the time needed to prepare reports
Fast analysis of production defects and productivity
Self-service BI available directly to business users
Ability to view data from different perspectives

What we delivered

Shortened time to insight
Focus on ease of use while maintaining high analytical performance
Gradual implementation from pilot areas into production and logistics
Deployment of a self-service analytics environment for visual analysis
Evaluation of multiple BI approaches and comparison of their capabilities
Integration of key data sources, including SAP, shopfloor systems and Excel

The benefit of Qlik lies in its technology. Its technological engine is well-tuned and powerful, which means a very good price-to-performance ratio. We can get to results very quickly, mainly thanks to the in-memory technologies the solution is built on. In addition to fast analytics, the visual aspect and user-friendliness are also important.

Tomáš Bachorík

Director Of Operations, Foxconn CZ

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