Smart Manufacturing Consulting

Opportunities for improvement
are everywhere.

Change is hard for everyone.

But change is easier when it’s validated by data that confirms you’re changing the right things, in the right way, at the right time.

With 40 years of manufacturing consulting experience, Polaris Automation has the expertise to solve whatever challenges come your way. We’ve led many companies through times of change, and we’ve learned what works. Our approach provides focus, validates your process, and helps you create an environment of continuous improvement.

When you’re too close to something, it’s hard to see anything at all. But from our point of view, we see opportunity everywhere. Our diverse knowledge base and wealth of experience provide us with an invaluable, unbiased perspective. This unique perspective helps us identify your challenges and create a plan to pursue them.

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Real change requires focus. When challenges pop up, you don’t have time to slow down. Working as an extension of your team, our Smart Manufacturing Consulting provides the focus necessary to see change through. Our proven process eliminates the trial and error you can’t afford as we work together to achieve the transformation you need.

Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Roadmap Framework

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1. Explore

Our process begins with an introductory conversation to explain the value of our consultative approach. We attend events, review competitors, explore options, address challenges, share success stories, seek demonstrations and pilot technology.

2. Access

We engage front-line personnel to review process data and business goals to understand your organization and team. We share insights gained and come to consensus about the current state of operations: competitiveness, market readiness, people, process and technology. This helps determine our areas of focus.

3. Focus

We conduct deep-dive interviews and analyze insights to identify performance gaps and present opportunities such as business drivers and value proposition. Focusing on what will yield the greatest value in the least amount of time, we come to an agreement about the future state of your operations.

4. Roadmap

We develop business objectives and programs, identify business drivers and key milestones, define project scope, and prioritize initiatives…creating a literal roadmap to achieve the goals we’ve identified and agreed upon together.

5. Execute & Sustain

We execute the roadmap and achieve the first benchmark. The focus is on visibility and understanding what the data is communicating so improvements are sustainable. Using data to identify areas for improvement, we execute the plan in support of what drives your business – bringing the group to consensus about new benchmarks to pursue.

6. Validate

The contextualized data speaks for itself as your operation achieves greater efficiency. We validate success through business value, impact, and timelines. Every success creates opportunities for further improvement – expansion is key. What we learn is applied more efficiently to the next process. Then the next process.

Whether the path to where your manufacturing operation needs to be in the future is cloudy or clear, Polaris Automation’s consultative approach works. We help manufacturers build and navigate their digital transformation strategy – helping you achieve excellence through the convergence of automation and technology.
There’s always a better way. And we’ll help you find it.

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