Manufacturing is a complex business. Most projects involve a finely balanced combination of interconnected tasks, connected teams, tight timelines, and, quite often, a volatile market. Keeping all those plates successfully spinning in the air is no easy feat, which is why delays, inefficiencies, and roadblocks are common problems.
To help you overcome these manufacturing challenges, the workflow management experts at Wrike have put together 14 practical and effective tips for boosting productivity, streamlining systems, and enhancing collaboration.
Practical, effective tips
One of the world’s most intelligent platforms, Wrike is the first choice for leading manufacturers like Electrolux and Siemens.
Whether they’re producing cars, computers, or cell phones, all manufacturers operate workflows, which can be improved with experienced guidance — and the right software.
The eBook “Productivity Unleashed: 14 Essential Strategies for Manufacturing Project Management” features more than a dozen ways you can streamline your manufacturing workflows, from generating data-rich reports to harnessing the power of AI.
Highlights include:
- Document processes with blueprints: Save time and reduce the risk of errors by repeating proven processes.
- Leverage artificial intelligence (AI): Cut inefficiencies and accelerate delivery with powerful machine learning and automation tools.
- Encourage real-time collaboration: In today’s world, it’s vital to comment and communicate live and in context.
- Leverage dashboards: Get a bird’s-eye view of all your operations, zooming from macro to micro as needed.
- Use workflow templates: Why reinvent the wheel? Lean on a library of tried-and-tested manufacturing templates.
- Utilize user groups and guest access: Bring stakeholders into your workspace while safeguarding sensitive data with adjustable permissions.
- Tailor layouts with custom item types: Customize your workspace with personalized labels, languages, spaces, workflows, and more.
- Leverage integrations: Connect seamlessly to key tools like Slack, Microsoft Office, Zoom, Jira, and more.
- Allow flexibility with mobile and desktop apps: With the right mobile apps, your team can work anywhere, anytime.
- Generate customizable reports: Keep stakeholders informed with detailed reports that contain up-to-date data insights.
- Standardize intake with dynamic request forms: Get all the information you need right away with customizable intake requests.
- Utilize dedicated team working spaces: Help teams focus by creating secure spaces with all the information and tools they need.
- Use time-tracking: Measure the time needed for tasks, projects, and more to improve resourcing and prevent burnout.
- Leverage task dependencies: Create an automatic flow that takes you from kick-off to delivery date with detailed dependencies.
Powerful, productivity-boosting technology
Utilizing the right technology is key to turning these strategies into solutions. This includes dynamic dashboards, advanced automation, customizable request forms, repeatable blueprints, trusted templates, time trackers, and much more.
Cobbling together all these productivity tools would be costly, unwieldy, and difficult to connect across the entire product life cycle. That’s why most major manufacturers prefer one powerful workflow management platform that can deliver all of these features in one easy-to-use interface, helping to enhance the entire organization’s workflow, from ideation to distribution and disposal.
Plus, the right workflow management software can unite disparate teams, reducing silos, eradicating inefficiencies, and accelerating time to market. If you’re ready to unlock your company’s potential, download Wrike’s free eBook “Productivity Unleashed: 14 Essential Strategies for Manufacturing Project Management”.
Prefer to start implementing these game-changing tips straight away? Try Wrike for your manufacturing team now.
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