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Introduction

TBM is the Global Lean Transformation Leader

Recognized leader

driving business excellence and end-to-end business process transformation since 1991. Work documented in book ‘Lean Thinking’.

 

Comprehensive management system

to align strategy through execution and sustain improvements

 

Proven results track record

with thousands of case studies delivering operational results with sustainable growth in sales and earnings

 

Seasoned consultants

who have a minimum of 25+ years of operations management and lean implementation experience

 

Global footprint

serving hundreds of clients on four continents in nine languages

TBM's Focused Service Offering Solutions

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Operational Excellence

Be Agile.
Grow Faster.

Supply Chain Management

Don't Serve at Any Cost.
Drive Your Cost to Serve.

Management System & Operational Leadership

Do More Than Set Goals.
Exceed Them Faster.

Private Equity Operational Due Diligence & Value Creation

Identify Greater Value.
Realize it Faster.

Leadership Solutions

Reject Status Quo.
Drive Leadership Capabilities.

Industry 4.0/IIoT

Make Informed Decisions Faster.
Accelerate Business Performance.

What is Dploy Solutions?

Your Digital Journey Starts With: 

 

Data Collection and Aggregation From:
  • Manual data entry (MDE)
  • Corporate (IT) and manufacturing (OT) systems
  • Manufacturing systems – through factory floor connectivity and IIoT

 

Dploy Solutions Core Capabilities:
  • Strategy deployment and execution
  • KPI and metric tracking
  • Factory floor performance monitoring
  • Analytics
  • Lean and CI problem solving tools
  • Project and task management
What is Dploy Solutions?

Dploy Solutions is a cloud-based digital manufacturing software suite that helps you establish strategy, keep score, view and analyze performance, and use continuous improvement tools and methodologies to keep you on track.

Dploy Solutions
Helps You Win!

 

You’re in business to compete AND win. To compete, everyone from the top floor to the shop floor must have real-time data and visibility to make quick decisions that move the business forward, faster.

 

Dploy Solutions is the digital manufacturing software that translates critical data into clear insights to easily see problems, opportunities, actions and impact to bottom line.

 

Dploy Solutions
Helps You Win!

It’s not enough to know “how” you’re doing, you need to understand “why” and take corrective actions.

 

Dploy Solutions Gives You the Ability to:
  • Track performance (“How are you doing?”)
  • Keep track of hits and misses
  • Understand why you missed the target (root causes)
  • Make improvements (“What actions need to be done?” and “Who’s responsible?”)
  • Get back on track and sustain

 

 

Experts in Global Manufacturing Operations

Where we live & work

  • 60% are in the US
  • 21% are in Latin America
  • 11% are in Asia Pacific
  • 9% in Europe

 

Our consultants have deep industry experience in numerous industries

  • Food & Beverage, Consumer Products, Industrial Manufacturing, Packaging, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical Equipment/Supplies, Garment & Textiles, Durable Goods

 

All consultants served in continuous improvement, engineering, operational leadership or executive roles prior to joining TBM.

 

They average at least 20+ years of experience in consulting and software development.

Dploy Solutions Quick Facts

  • Cloud-based subscription software (SaaS), securely hosted in the United States (Flexential)

 

  • Part of TBM Consulting Group for 13+ years

 

  • Accessible from all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) and devices (desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile phones)

 

  • Supported languages include English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese Simplified

 

  • Built on leading technologies: Microsoft .NET, Kepware OPC, Sisense embedded analytics, Highcharts visualizations

Product Overview

Summary of Core Capabilities by Bundle

 

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Strategy

Strategy
Deployment &
KPI Management

Strategy Deployment

  • Hoshin Kanri X-Matrix
  • Bowler Charts
  • Problem-solving tools

KPI Management

  • KPI/metric tracking & rollup
  • Business dashboards
  • Interactive visualizations
  • Performance trends/analysis
  • Root cause/countermeasure identification
  • Automated alerts & escalations
  • Mobile device support

Business Execution

Strategy PLUS
Project Management, Analytics
& Data Integration

Project & Task Management

  • Goal & action plan building
  • Cost tracking
  • Resource assignment

Analytics

  • Embedded analytics using Sisense
  • Statistical and data analysis tools

Data Integration

  • Connectivity to IT or OT systems in any time increment
  • Access to broad range of sources from ERP to local spreadsheets

Total Visibility

Business Execution PLUS
Factory Floor
Connectivity

Factory Floor Connectivity/IIoT

  • Connectivity to smart devices, PLCs, control systems, IIoT sensors/gateways
  • Real-time, dynamic dashboards to support factory views
  • Access to historical data via operations historian & customizable dashboards

Advanced Visibility

Total Visibility PLUS
Advanced
Analytics

Advanced Analytics

  • Custom Analytics solutions for your business

Strategy & KPI Management

Execute policy deployment and align the most critical KPIs at your organization across multiple sites and cross-functional teams in one cloud-based platform.

 

The entire team can see the company's strategic vision and they know what needs to be done to get there.

 

With Dploy Solutions everyone is on task to achieve breakthrough objectives faster.

Strategy Deployment

Dploy Solutions is the only software to effectively execute and manage your policy deployment plan faster. In one solution your team can: 

  • Establish 3-5 year and annual plan via the X-Matrix 
  • Create and manage action plans to get the work done
  • Manage critical KPIs to ensure you are on track with achieving goals
  • Establish countermeasures to support continuous improvement priorities

 

Use the Strategy Insight dashboard to review progress toward your plan everyday to ensure you are on track to win the year and achieve your breakthrough objectives.

 

Dploy supports multiple sites and cross-functional teams in one cloud-based platform.

 

KPI Management with Data Integration

Get real-time data-driven insights to see exactly what is happening in your operations every hour of every day. 

 

Stream in the data and drill down to find out where problems are happening, why and what is being done to fix them.  

 

Dploy Solutions keeps the pulse on operational performance AND identifies and corrects issues so you stay on track with operational goals and improve profitability.

Effective Operational Reviews In One Dashboard

 

  • Quick glance of performance across specific areas of the business (Corporate level, facility level, line level, metric level)

  • Understand reasons for misses and relevant countermeasures

  • See action plans and progress toward resolving missed targets
  • Track trends in performance over time 

 

Screenshots: Displays an OEE review at the corporate level and then drilling down to the metric level around availability, performance, quality and safety for a specific line

 

 

Factory Floor Connectivity/
Industrial IoT

Get factory floor data insights and tools to maintain tight controls and monitor equipment and processes to ensure productivity does not slip.

 

With Dploy Solutions Factory Floor Connectivity you can:

  • Stream data to communicate the health of your factory every second via dynamic dashboards. 
  • Send automated alerts the moment performance is off track.
  • Leverage problem solving tools to identify root cause of problems.
  • Create actions plans and countermeasures to stop issues from derailing production.

 

 

Manage Equipment Performance by the Second

 

  • Monitor equipment utilization, availability, and quality
  • Pace operators to real time plan values every second, minute and hour
  • Track downtime and number of occurrences
  • Alert when parameters fall out of specification via text, email and on the dashboard

 

Screenshots: Display equipment performance dashboards at a supervisor view and operator view. Live data enables dynamic charts and graphs and triggers alerts via color codes when machine is out of spec.

  

Get Down to the Details of OEE

 

  • Understand availability, performance and quality of equipment in real-time
  • Analyze data across all lines, a specific line or machine 
  • Investigate reasons for issues by factory location, line or equipment
  • Drill down by the day or time to pinpoint when and where problems occur

 

Screenshots: Display of OEE for measurements around availability, performance and quality on assembly lines. Left chart shows overall OEE. Right chart shows reasons for lags in performance. Drill down into the left chart data to zero in on the reason codes on the right. 

Analytics

The diagnostic analytics capabilities in Dploy Solutions—the ability to understand what is happening and why—is the first step toward your digital journey.

 

Get deeper insights to understand all potential contributors to issues and find opportunities for improvement and growth.

 

Dploy Solutions Analytics help optimize strategic business decisions and pave the way toward digital transformation.

Know What is Happening In Your Operations Anytime, Anywhere

 

  • View progress down to the hour anytime, anywhere 
  • View metrics in list or graphical format
  • View metrics for the day, week or month or custom date ranges
  • Drill down by location, severity codes
  • Filter results by location, severity, percentage or consecutive miss criteria 
  • Receive alert notifications and summarize all triggered alerts across date ranges and locations

Data Integration and Security

Data Integration with Dploy Solutions

Dploy Solutions can exchange data with nearly any application or IT system from your ERP down to a spreadsheet or flat .CSV file.

 

Two ways to approach data integration:

  1. iConduct agent running on client side of firewall passes data to Dploy Solutions in the cloud
  2. Secure file transfer of data files to be processed, generated and transferred to Dploy Solutions in the cloud via SFTP

 

The Dploy Solutions team works with the client IT team to ensure data is mapped as needed.

Dploy Solutions Data Flow from IT and OT Systems

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Your Security is Our Priority

  • You own your data. No one can access your data without proper permissions
  • Our solution is hosted at Flexential in Charlotte, NC
  • We use a proprietary SSO login capability that relies on tokens at both parties to allow access
  • Multi-tenant solution with data separation achieved through business layer logic and database primary keys
  • SOC2 compliant
  • Intrusion testing by outside 3rd party conducted annually
  • Use industry recognized data integration capabilities
  • Dploy data is encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Network and application firewalls and VPN access are strictly controlled

Typical Answers to Key Questions: Hosting & Security

 

Question

Response

Hosting location:

Flexential Data Center, Charlotte, NC, USA

Security Protocols:

•SOC 1/SSAE 16, Type II; SOC 2, SOC 3

•Web Application Firewall

•Managed Monitored Real-Time Firewall

•Security Monitoring

ISO Accreditation:

•ISO 27001

•NIST 800-53

•HIPPA

•PCI DSS

Backups and Redundancy

•Data backed up every six (6) hours

•Transaction logs backed up every one (1) hour

Monitoring

•Google Analytics

Customer Success with Dploy Solutions

Global infrastructure manufacturer uses Strategy Deployment and KPI Management to create a cohesive and focused culture.

 

Challenges:

 

  • Strategic plan, goals and action items were being managed in various formats and systems.
  • No standardized KPI tracking making it a challenge to consolidate and roll up data from spreadsheets.
  • Created site specific KPIs but lacked standard metrics across all sites.
  • Lack of an effective review process using PowerPoints

  

Solution:

 

  • Dploy Solution Strategy Deployment module aligning sites across a global footprint
  • Data integration from multiple data sources to update KPIs
  • Migrating to the new Dploy Dashboards pulled together Strategy, KPI performance, problem solving and actions to a single place for review
Our client has created a discipline for standard processes and supporting metrics with the help of Dploy’s digital capabilities that drives actions to achieve strategic goals.

 

Results:

 

  • Leadership team mandated roll out of Dploy Solutions to other sites for better alignment and visibility of data from strategic plans down to daily initiatives
  • Dploy dashboards created a more effective leadership review process
  • Automated KPI updating so they can focus on problem solving instead of data entry

Customer Success with Dploy Solutions

Carlisle Links Strategy to Execution and Accelerates Sustainable Value Creation

 

Challenges:

 

  • Need to better communicate goals across many sites and geographic locations
  • Losing market share to low-cost regional manufacturers
  • Making acquisitions but not extracting value
  • Lack of visibility and accountability on responsibilities under the overall strategic plan.

  

Solution:

 

  • Dploy Solution Strategy Deployment module aligns with the Carlisle Operating System (COS)
  • Connect disparate businesses with one overarching strategy creating visibility across the business
  • Instills a discipline for process improvement to extract value from acquisition
Dploy Solutions integration with Carlisle’s Operating system enables the business to realize value creation plans & keep the entire organization focused on annual operating goals.

 

Results:

 

  • Improved review process of strategic plans across all locations and departments using Dploy dashboards
  • Better visual management using large flat panel TVs displaying Dploy digital dashboards on the shop floor
  • Increased visibility and accountability
  • Improved alignment of global KPI tracking

Implementation and Pricing Model

Getting Started with Dploy Solutions

Kick-off
Meeting

  • With Dploy Implementation Consultant
  • Information gathering on scope and objectives
  • Factory floor discovery

Define
Configuration

  • Create map of metrics across the hierarchy of organization
  • Identify users and permissions
  • Define standard settings: Severity Levels, Reason Codes, etc.

Dploy
Setup

  • Applications activated and login set up
  • Metrics and dashboards created
  • Identify Super-user(s)

Admin
Training

  • Super-user training
  • Online or in-person

Launch -
all users

  • Online training documents for all users
  • Users at all levels begin use

How to add Factory Floor Connectivity

Three Easy Steps

 

  1. Evaluate what data is needed and from what systems on the factory floor
  2. Purchase hardware and software to get up and running.
  3. Connect with Dploy Solutions to start your digital journey!

 

Dploy Solutions’ implementation team is available to help.
Learn more about our professional services fees on the next slide.

Flexible Pricing Model

Implementation Services 

 

Pricing
  • $5,500 one-time startup fee
  • Optional Services:

    • On-site training at $1,500/day plus travel and expenses is recommended
    • Historical data load at $1,500/day

 

What's Included 
  • SaaS setup and basic system configuration
  • User training session (admins, users)
  • Typical Services:

    • System configuration and setup (metrics, users, reason codes, etc.)
    • Go-live project management and support; bulk user training
    • Data integration with IT systems
    • Factory floor connectivity set up

SaaS Software Subscription

 

Pricing
  • One-year subscription; billed monthly
  • Monthly SaaS fees based on number of active users

 

What's Included 
  • On-going updates and releases (maintenance)
  • 99.5% service-levels
  • Online and phone support
  • Basic and advanced user training

Monthly SaaS Pricing (USD per Tier)

 

Tiers

Strategy

Business Execution

Total Visibility

Advanced Visibility

# of seats/tier

Strategy Deployment &

KPI Management

Strategy + Project Management,

Analytics & Data Integration

Business Execution +

Factory Floor Connectivity

Total Visibility +

Advanced Analytics

1-20

$1,500

$1,800

$2,100

$2,500

21-40

$2,800

$3,400

$4,000

$4,800

41-60

$3,900

$4,800

$5,700

$6.900

61-80

$4,800

$6,000

$7,200

$8,800

81-100

$5,500

$7,000

$8,500

$10,500

101-120

$6,000

$7,800

$9,600

$12,000

121-140

$6,300

$8,400

$10,500

$13,300

141-160

$7,200

$8,800

$11,200

$14,400

161-180

$8,100

$9,000

$11,700

$15,300

181-200

$9,000

$10,000

$12,000

$16,000

Contact Us

Contact Us

Contact us to learn more about how
Dploy Solutions can help your organization
Gary Miller
gmiller@tbmcg.com
215.499.6255

 

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