ARC CONCEPTS AND MODELS

THOUGHT LEADERS FOR MANUFACTURING, ENERGY, & SUPPLY CHAIN

Manufacturers face an uphill task in responding to mass customization challenges, such as lowering prices, ensuring consistent quality, meeting tighter delivery schedules, ensuring compliance and traceability, and tracking real-time information about orders in progress. Too often, they struggle to comply with these requests. ARC has developed strategic models based on decades of research that improves day-to-day decision-making to help you get the best from your people, processes, and technologies.

Collaborative Manufacturing ManagementIn order to think through what it means to be a real-time enterprise, it helps to have a robust model of the manufacturing enterprise. ARC’s Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM) model will not only help share information, it will operate in the context of a broader business process workflow rather than a traditionally passive, transaction-based, business system. Mapping applications with the model, opportunities are more easily identified, communicated, and acted upon. ARC’s CMM gives a clearer perspective for determining architecture, technology, applications, business processes, integration needs, user benefits, and return on investment (ROI).

Operational ExcellenceOperational Excellence (OpX) is a rational process for achieving competi-tive advantage. OpX drives the enterprise to "Consistently Do the Right Things Well". ARC’s OpX model reflects the principles of continuous improvement embodied in methodologies such as Six Sigma. OpX goes beyond such internally-focused programs and recognizes the critical importance of looking outside of the organization to identify those issues that are critical to customers.

Real-time Performance ManagementReal-time Performance Management (RPM) extends Operational Excellence by continuously identifying the goals and targets that will ensure success. RPM integrates real-time visibility, agility, and speed into the performance management system. RPM’s focus is on operational cost and profitability measures for resource allocation and decision-making. Dynamic performance targets adapt to changing definitions of what is important and what is acceptable performance. The real-time monitoring of performance measures and external factors keep the corporation focused on the "right things".

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Asset Lifecycle ManagementARC's Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) model offers a wider vision that highlights its role, identifies key processes and stakeholders, and better ways to measure and control performance. Using ARC’s ALM model, companies can prune capital budget overruns and startup delays that turn market opportunities into calamities. They can optimize the performance of all their facilities in terms of return-on-assets, safety, environmental and health compliance, and response to all customer demands.

Asset Performance ManagementARC’s Asset Performance Management (APM) model helps organiza-tions develop integrated strategies that optimize utilization and avail-ability. It recognizes multiple performance dimensions, including finan-cial, health & safety, environmental, and sustainability; hidden human and information assets; and the critical need for collaborative Asset Information Management (AIM) to enable effective teamwork. Most importantly, ARC’s APM model is firmly grounded in the extensive research ARC has done in ALM, enabling organizations to balance APM goals with other critical ALM objectives.

Project Performance ManagementToday’s challenges require new project management strategies. ARC’s model for Project Performance Management (PPM) provides the frame-

work for analyzing needs, devel-oping strategies, and driving peak performance across project activi-ties. ARC’s model is unique in its view of process interdependencies; coordination of financial, human and information assets; and collab-orative Project Information Man-agement (PIM) for global team-work. Grounded in ARC’s

extensive ALM research it also enables organizations to balance PPM goals with other critical ALM objectives.

Find out how ARC will help improve your business operations and profitability. Contact us at info@arcweb.com or 781-471-1000.

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Peter DolinsekLeader Process Automation