UK manufacturers lose 21 minutes per shift to manual reporting
New research from OFS suggests UK manufacturers are still losing large amounts of productive time every day to manual reporting, disconnected systems and delayed operational visibility, despite years of investment in digital transformation. Operators spend an average of 21 minutes per shift manually logging information, transcribing data and preparing reports. Across a typical three-shift operation, that equates to more than an hour every day spent moving information around rather than solving problems on the factory floor, multiplying up to 380 hours a year. And James Magee, CEO at OFS comments: “A huge amount of operational data is being collected but never properly used by the people closest to production. And when visibility is delayed, the financial impact shows up quickly through downtime, missed deadlines, rising costs and firefighting.”
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