VirtECS® Symphony Guide

VirtECS® Symphony

A Guide to Manufacturing Social Media

After creating an optimized schedule with an advanced tool like VirtECS^®, it must be efficiently distributed to those responsible for executing the schedule in order to have the biggest impact.

VirtECS^® Symphony enables process coordination and synergy by publishing schedules and promoting feedback.

Schedule coordination is made simple with VirtECS^® Symphony, a web-based module that can be accessed by anyone in your organization on any device.

With features like field schedule editing suggestions and comment mechanisms, everyone at your plant is able to stay in near-constant communication and troubleshoot problems together. It’s these capabilities that earned VirtECS^® Symphony the nickname “manufacturing social media.”

IN THIS GUIDE, YOU’LL LEARN:

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Why having a web-based module to publish your schedule is so convenient.

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The wide range of features and customizable information options available when publishing a schedule with VirtECS^®Symphony.

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How employees can provide feedback on the schedule.

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“Using VirtECS, we were able to debottleneck our largest production facility by identifying a sequence of changes that we never could have evaluated with a spreadsheet model. We reduced the necessary capital investment by $300 million by demonstrating areas where more equipment did not benefit throughput.”

Senior Resource Planning Manager – Biopharma Industry

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