Manufacturing employees work long hours on their feet, doing the same tasks over and over in a loud, dangerous environment. Many employees are temporary or contracted, and walk out of the job without learning more than their specific assignment. When workers become apathetic, production declines. How do you keep your employees engaged, on-task, and informed?

DIGITAL SIGNAGEIN MANUFACTURING

Traditional Meansof Communication• Employee Safety - From paper signs to flyers, messaging posted at various locations throughout the facility is typically the only way to convey this initiative.• HR and Corporate Messaging - These important messages are usually spread via posters on a corkboard, loudspeaker announcements, or emails. • Production Run Metrics - These stats are mainly created in an excel spreadsheet and updated during the run.

Why Traditional CommunicationAttempts FailManufacturing employees are not authorized to carry cell phones or mobile devices while working. Moreover, they are rarely able to access computers to check email for any updates or corporate messaging during their shift. Paper messages posted in the breakroom are often overlooked or tossed in the trash. In loud production facilities, workers are mandated to wear earplugs. This makes it near impossible to hear intercom announcements. Shift managers, who are the medium for relaying internal communications, are often preoccupied with priorities such as mechanical failure, deadlines, and production output.

Manufacturing inthe 21st CenturySay goodbye to the bulletin board in the break room. The manufacturing industry can greatly benefit from digital signage. A simple news update from a digital sign can add the touch of normalcy needed to turn a graveyard shift into another day on the job.Employees who feel like they are “in the know”tend to have higher morale.

Being a visually based, self-updating communications medium, employees are updated for their shift as soon as they enter the site. Any television screen can become a communication outlet. Couple this with easy-to-use content management software and the entire workplace will be improved.

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Manufacturing employees work long hours on their feet, doing the same tasks over and over in a loud, dangerous environment. Many employees are temporary or contracted, and walk out of the job without learning more than their specific assignment. When workers become apathetic, production declines. How do you keep your employees engaged, on-task, and informed?

DIGITAL SIGNAGEIN MANUFACTURING

Traditional Meansof Communication• Employee Safety - From paper signs to flyers, messaging posted at various locations throughout the facility is typically the only way to convey this initiative.• HR and Corporate Messaging - These important messages are usually spread via posters on a corkboard, loudspeaker announcements, or emails. • Production Run Metrics - These stats are mainly created in an excel spreadsheet and updated during the run.

Why Traditional CommunicationAttempts FailManufacturing employees are not authorized to carry cell phones or mobile devices while working. Moreover, they are rarely able to access computers to check email for any updates or corporate messaging during their shift. Paper messages posted in the breakroom are often overlooked or tossed in the trash. In loud production facilities, workers are mandated to wear earplugs. This makes it near impossible to hear intercom announcements. Shift managers, who are the medium for relaying internal communications, are often preoccupied with priorities such as mechanical failure, deadlines, and production output.

Manufacturing inthe 21st CenturySay goodbye to the bulletin board in the break room. The manufacturing industry can greatly benefit from digital signage. A simple news update from a digital sign can add the touch of normalcy needed to turn a graveyard shift into another day on the job.Employees who feel like they are “in the know”tend to have higher morale.

Being a visually based, self-updating communications medium, employees are updated for their shift as soon as they enter the site. Any television screen can become a communication outlet. Couple this with easy-to-use content management software and the entire workplace will be improved.

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Digital Signage in Manufacturing

Safety CommunicationsManufacturing employees often deal with loud, heavy machinery. When an obstruction occurs in the work flow, they need to know as soon as possible and to inform other areas within the site of the stoppage. Digital signage is an e�ective way to communicate bottlenecking alerts or when immediate critical attention is needed on the production line.

• Alert integrations connect fire alarms and/or diagnostic sources to to display real-time emergency notifications on the screens.• Digital signage messaging can incorporate health and safety tips throughout the shift.• Informational videos, on PPE (personal protective equipment), crane and forklift safety, or lockout/tagout procedures, is displayed for employees who have missed or forgotten trainings. • ‘‘Days Without Accident’ counters integrate with applications like the Kaizen Safety Cross, to display the status on the screens.

HR AnnouncementsThis isn’t limited to alerting employees of cake in the break room. Anything that would once be posted via flyer or emailed as a memo can now make a presence on digital signage.

• Post any company announcements that odd-shift workers are likely to have missed in the weekly meeting. • Incorporate a warm welcome into your campaign for special visitors. • Congratulate ‘Employees of the Month’ and other company awards. • Promote upcoming events or holiday parties. • Post any changes or updated information regarding employee benefit information.

Important InformationDigital signage is easily one of the fastest ways to communicate informational messaging to your audiences without email or paper.

• Update site directories with a few clicks.• Display wayfinding on a 3D map so new employees or guests can interface with the technology to find the correct route. • Set up signage in working stations that includes informational manuals, training videos, employee handbooks, and product information.

"Digital Signage has provided us with the ability to distribute information globally quickly

and e�ciently. The solution isan excellent way to keep

employees informed without disrupting the workflow."

Morris Osburn,Mobility and Video Collaboration,

Caterpillar, Inc

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Safety CommunicationsManufacturing employees often deal with loud, heavy machinery. When an obstruction occurs in the work flow, they need to know as soon as possible and to inform other areas within the site of the stoppage. Digital signage is an e�ective way to communicate bottlenecking alerts or when immediate critical attention is needed on the production line.

• Alert integrations connect fire alarms and/or diagnostic sources to to display real-time emergency notifications on the screens.• Digital signage messaging can incorporate health and safety tips throughout the shift.• Informational videos, on PPE (personal protective equipment), crane and forklift safety, or lockout/tagout procedures, is displayed for employees who have missed or forgotten trainings. • ‘‘Days Without Accident’ counters integrate with applications like the Kaizen Safety Cross, to display the status on the screens.

HR AnnouncementsThis isn’t limited to alerting employees of cake in the break room. Anything that would once be posted via flyer or emailed as a memo can now make a presence on digital signage.

• Post any company announcements that odd-shift workers are likely to have missed in the weekly meeting. • Incorporate a warm welcome into your campaign for special visitors. • Congratulate ‘Employees of the Month’ and other company awards. • Promote upcoming events or holiday parties. • Post any changes or updated information regarding employee benefit information.

Important InformationDigital signage is easily one of the fastest ways to communicate informational messaging to your audiences without email or paper.

• Update site directories with a few clicks.• Display wayfinding on a 3D map so new employees or guests can interface with the technology to find the correct route. • Set up signage in working stations that includes informational manuals, training videos, employee handbooks, and product information.

"Digital Signage has provided us with the ability to distribute information globally quickly

and e�ciently. The solution isan excellent way to keep

employees informed without disrupting the workflow."

Morris Osburn,Mobility and Video Collaboration,

Caterpillar, Inc

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Machine MaintenanceManufacturing sites are full of numerous machines. While you’re dealing with a vendor on the phone, you might miss the text message about the equipment overheating on the floor. Digital signage software can integrate with the technology that monitors the meter readings of all operating machines. Therefore when the temperature, pressure, or voltage reaches a dangerous level, the signage will instantly communicate which machine needs maintenance.

Work OrdersDigital signage software helps users manage maintenance tasks by integrating withspreadsheets, and other software programs.The software generates and transmits certain data communications, so managers are ableto make more accurate decisions while on the floor and spend less time in the o�ce processing and filing paperwork. Through these automations, managers are able to improve response times with clients and increase customer satisfaction.

Preventive Maintenance (PM)Digital signage software allows users to schedule recurring or specific dates for work orders information to be displayed. Communication alerts can be created in a digital content campaign so the proper employees are informed when a PM work order has been entered or updated. Regularly scheduled reminders can be transmitted to the screens when PM work orders are created. Campaigns can display PM procedures, checklists and images to help standardize work.

Track Manufacturing ProgressDigital signage technology can integrate with your Computerized maintenance management system, CMMS, solution to track each step of the manufacturing process. By streamlining communications, project managers save the time they would have spent gathering and sharing information.Production metrics, inventory managementand monitoring, and statistics about product quality, worker-performance, machine performance,quota tracking, and business performance canbe updated in real time onto the screens.

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