Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PPROI (Restoring competitiveness – Information system for the 21st Century Manufacturing)

Teaser

Faced with intense global competition, many manufacturing companies in EU are moving production from Europe to destinations with lower production costs, leading to significant job losses and hollowing of the European industrial base – with over well-paying 1.3 mil. jobs and...

Summary

Faced with intense global competition, many manufacturing companies in EU are moving production from Europe to destinations with lower production costs, leading to significant job losses and hollowing of the European industrial base – with over well-paying 1.3 mil. jobs and European prosperity at risk. One of the tools how to reverse these negative trends and reach the goal of 20% of manufacturing share in GDP after 2020[1] is to enhance operational effectiveness of companies located in Europe by increasing their productivity and return on capital.

PPROI is a revolutionary information system supporting lean management of manufacturing processes by providing users within the firm (from planners to senior executives) with real-time data on capital employed in every process or product in order to increase its manufacturing productivity, overall operational effectiveness, and return on capital. No other system at the market today can supply this kind of detailed information. Commercializing the PPROI IS within EU can have significant economic and social impacts derived from increasing competitiveness of PPROI users mainly through employment retention and employment gains in areas in which European companies – for cost reason - could not compete and where 1.3 mil jobs and European prosperity are at risk.

The proposed project is a strategic initiative for growth and transformation of the company from a small innovation-driven entity, to a market-oriented SME with scale-up business model based on a network of implementation partners.

Work performed

During the six months implementation of the project, following specific objectives for the feasibility study have been elaborated:

A comprehensive business plan providing a blueprint for business expansion in the CEE region in preparation of a roll-out across the whole EU market, including a feature-by-feature comparison of other highly ranked products currently in the market. Detailed evaluation of alternative “go-to-market” approaches, including IP protection implications of working with market partners and distributors, as well as evaluation of customer preference & expectations regarding various market-entry channels, was finished successfully. We did market validation with new users from textile industry with the new promising outputs and spoke to important potential clients worldwide. Pricing model was developed as a crucial input for the business plan and for the PPROI commercialization. Freedom to operate analysis confirmed that there are no substantial risks on the market now.
We designed new tool – Dynamic Competence Management – new SW application for shop floor management on human resources: the door opener for the whole PPROI Information System.
Based on market study, we also defined selected upgrade requirements for PPROI technological platform to enhance scalability, to be further developed and tested.
We have expanded our core team for two senior managers (CTO and BDM) with expertize from the field, to accelerate the growth of the company and negotiated new partnerships and implementation projects.

Final results

Our innovation provides a radically different solution to deficiencies of standard production planning and control systems by introducing a new way of mapping the production process, and a new way of real-time measurement of capital requirements for all Products, Processes, and Resources within the firm. The core value proposition of the PPROI concept is enabling managers to make operating decisions based on optimizing ROI of individual processes and products at the lowest possible level, and then maximizing the ROI pyramid all the way to the level of the whole enterprise. PPROI addresses the need to enhance operational effectiveness of companies located in Europe by increasing their productivity and return on capital with broad positive socio-economic impacts. No other legacy systems are able to monitor productivity (ROI – return on investment) of the capital employed in various stages of the production process and thus gives the accurate and real time data to owners and managers. PPROI helps to boost productivity, restore competitiveness and maintain employment in sectors of European manufacturing, which depend on continuous cost and quality improvement.

Website & more info

More info: http://www.pproi.com.