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Maxion Wheels' Digital Transformation for Continuous Improvement

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Technology Category
  • Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
  • Education
Applicable Functions
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Digital Twin
  • Manufacturing Process Simulation
Services
  • Testing & Certification
  • Training
About The Customer
Maxion Wheels is one of the world's top wheel manufacturers. They have an international network of strategically located engineering, technology, and production facilities, making them one of the few wheel manufacturers who can supply locally nearly anywhere in the world. Yearly, they produce over 25 million wheels and employ over 10,000 employees at 23 manufacturing sites. The company is on a path towards digital transformation on a global scale, aiming to improve their work processes, training, and content creation time.
The Challenge
Maxion Wheels, a leading global wheel manufacturer, was facing challenges in standardizing work processes, improving training, and reducing content creation time. The company was on a path towards digital transformation, but bridging the gap between physical processes at manufacturing plants and information technology was complex. Creating work instructions took more than 4 hours, and quality control checklists were created and processed on paper by several people, multiple times per day. The company was looking for a platform to reduce instruction authoring time, improve ease of use, and digitize checklists to improve data collection. They also wanted to support their digital twin project and digitize not just instructions but work processes at their plants.
The Solution
Maxion Wheels partnered with SwipeGuide to boost digital transformation at their plants. SwipeGuide helped Maxion standardize work processes, reduce instruction authoring time, and improve data collection for compliance and digital twins. The platform allowed Maxion to create gifs, micro videos, and images for work instructions. Quality control checklists were digitized, improving data collection. SwipeGuide also supported Maxion's digital twin project, allowing the company to digitize work processes at their plants. The platform enabled Maxion employees to easily create instructions with clear visual aids and submit feedback from the shop floor. Supervisors could crowdsource knowledge and share data across multiple sites. Digitized checklists allowed them to upload data into Excel spreadsheets automatically and create reports.
Operational Impact
  • The adoption of SwipeGuide has brought about significant operational improvements for Maxion Wheels. The digitization of work instructions and checklists has streamlined processes, improved data collection, and reduced content creation time. The ability to create visual aids such as gifs, micro videos, and images has made instructions clearer and easier to follow, improving training effectiveness. The platform has also enabled knowledge crowdsourcing, allowing supervisors to share data across multiple sites and gain insights from the shop floor. Furthermore, the digital twin project has been successfully supported, enabling the digitization of work processes at the plants. Compliance tracking has also been made easier with the digital work instruction platform, leading to gains in productivity.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Reduced instruction authoring time from over 4 hours
  • Standardized work processes across 23 manufacturing sites
  • Improved data collection for compliance and digital twins

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