Shop-floor communication takes place in a highly dispersed and ineffective manner in most manufacturing companies. Information is only forwarded across departments in a limited manner, and raw information is usually communicated in a way that's not prioritized nor individualized. Smart communication is the strategy for a communications structure that tackles these problems. The goal is to communicate generated information and work steps for each workstation individually in real time.
Smart communication supplements existing information systems by equipping them with a superordinate logic. Contrary to centralized approaches such as BI solutions, process-relevant information is selected in terms of time and place from the sub-areas of the shop floor. Then it's delivered automatically to each respective screen at the required location individually by means of the superimposed logic.