Reduce time-to-market

Video communcation solutions reduce the need to travel, allows face-to-face meetings at any time and provides the means to a faster time to response. Video can be used to inspect products and designs before they are shipped, reducing development time and accelerating speed-to-market.

Employee Training and Retention

One major challenge for companies in the manufacturing industry is employee retention. People can work long hours and some have little contact with family if they are working remotely.

Corporate training is seen as a way to give skills to workers and a potential career path, improving retention. Video communication allows face-to-face interaction that can be held more regularly and will be more attended than normal training sessions. Remote experts can participate without the costs of travel, planning and time, and without the logistical issues caused by on site courses. Training can be recorded & played back, and include interactive technologies. Video conferencing is real-time interactive communication with collaboration ensuring a quality learning environment without geographical boundaries.

Improved Productivity & Quality Assurance

Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process can do more than save time, money, reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. Collaboration solutions for the manufacturing industry are used every day for quality assurance activities such as product inspections, remote product tracking and validation tests, production line status updates and changes, and remote meetings with development, sales teams, and customers.

Remote Technical Expertise

>By using video conferencing, real-time data can be processed by experts and can be displayed graphically in 3D models, enabling the project management team, directors, designers and workers to be advised by experts on demand. Experts can be involved at multiple plants and factories globally for training, development and finalising the project which would otherwise be far too costly and time consuming for any company. VideoCentric and Cyviz have an exciting partnership for this situation where we offer outstanding quality 3D display walls with HD telepresence for highly collaborative environments, and these have already been implemented in some of the worlds largest companies.

Meet environmental targets

Video communication lowers a companies carbon footprint and studies show that 80% of workers and 53% of consumers prefer associating with green organisations. "100 employees working at home one day a week saves the carbon equivalent of a forest the size of five football fields." If your organisation has environmental targets to meet, VideoCentric can help meet those targets by reducing travel by up to 30%, and by telecommuting, work is not disrupted by adverse weather conditions such as the recent snow, and environmental disasters such as the icelandic volcano eruptions.

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With the right technology and tools, companies in the industrial and manufacturing sector can hold life-like meeting experiences, deliver real time content and ensure security and safety of staff. By implementing solutions by VideoCentric, money, time and even lives can be saved.

Offshoring/Line Efficiencies

In offshore locations, improving the manufacturing build process can result in reduced costs and operational efficiencies. Video communication collaborative solutions are ideal for manufacturing activities such as video-based training, remote meetings with engineering or procurement, tracking and status checks or promoting facility-wide wireless communications. As a result, organizations enjoy improved yields, shorter development and build times and reduced costs.

Collaborative Communications

Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process can do more than save time, money, reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. Collaboration solutions are used every day for quality assurance activities such as product inspections, remote product tracking and validation tests, production line status updates and changes, and remote meetings with development, sales teams and customers. Need to hear or see every detail? High Definition voice and video solutions provide the level of detail required to ensure highest levels of quality.

Quality Assurance

Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process not only saves time and money, it reduces errors and improves customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. Collaboration solutions are used for quality assurance activities such as product inspections, remote product tracking and validation tests, production line status updates and changes, and remote meetings with development, sales teams, and customers.

Supply Management

For optimal profitability, most manufacturers can benefit from better inventory management and more accurate supply and demand forecasting. Real-time video and voice collaboration solutions keep information flowing between manufacturing locations, suppliers, vendors and customers. Better information leads to improved customer satisfaction, faster response to market and sounder upstream/downstream supply management.

Customer Service

A satisfied customer often results in a loyal customer, so it's no surprise that companies continuously look to improve customer service and increase customer satisfaction. Polycom collaboration solutions and tools are used to enhance a manufacturer's interface with customers as needed in the repair process for visual diagnosis, engineering assistance, or instructional support. This leads to enhanced satisfaction and shorter repair times.

Unified Communications

Manfacturers are looking for ways to enhance communications company wide and video and voice solutions play a critical role in unified communication strategies. VideoCentric are in a position to lead the Unified Communications revolution with partnerships in place with leading Cisco, Microsoft and Avaya integrators, the most comprehensive high definition interoperability suite in the UK and years of experience higher than any other reseller in the UK.

Telemedicine

Most manufacturing sites are home to dozens, even hundreds of workers. Aside from industrial staff nurses, there is usually scant access to more sophisticated medical professionals and services. When workers become ill or injured the situation must be assessed on the spot or via the phone. The time involved in moving a worker, with a life-threatening condition, from the site to a medical facility could mean the difference between life and death. Telemedicine solutions can offer life like images and instant access to medical experts so patients can be diagnosed properly and quickly.

Immersive Telepresence

Immersive telepresence solutions are ideal for executive level briefings or corporate board meetings where face-to-face interactions are required. Executives at manufacturing companies can meet with their designers, factory workers, partners or local government officials regarding project management and quality assurance etc. Systems such as the Polycom RPX and the Cisco 3010 are suitable for immersive telepresence solutions.

Collaborative Display Walls

Cyviz, the leading manufacturer of premium display walls for collaborative environments such as industrial and manufacturing, and VideoCentric have recently formed an exciting partnership to offer collaboration of Telepresence technologies with High Definition, 3D technologies and high class display walls. Whether an engineer, executive in the boardroom or government official, visualisation walls are becoming the tool of choice and necessity of modelling, manupulating, collaborating and communicating results. Collaborative displays such as the Cyviz C1 or the Cyviz Bizwall are perfect for the manufacturing industry and have already begun rolling out across the world with some of the largest companies.

Portable All-In-One Units

Video conferencing solutions can provide high definition customer experiences across distance, and in an industry where face-to-face, personal relationships are key to success, VideoCentric have suitable solutions to bring manufacturing sector organisations together.

HD Video is becoming widely used in the manufacturing industry in a number of ways beyond travel reduction. By being able to share content and utilise things like HD document cameras, industrial firms can consult with headquarters or contracted workers regarding quality and quantity of their manufactured goods. Telemedicine and training are also becoming strong users of video on site.

Specialised Video Conferencing Systems

For telemedicine and working at manufacturing sites, some video communication solutions are better suited to the job than others. Telepresence and video communication manufacturers have produced video conferencing systems that are specifically suited to specific jobs such as the Cisco Intern and the Polycom Mobile Responder.

Audio Conferencing

From a single phone line and wireless communications to large installed voice systems, audio conferencing solutions make audio sounds crisp, clear and natural. IP phone connectivity between headquarters, local governments, and remote locations provide high quality, reliable, cost effective commmunications.

HD quality sound ensures accuracy and full comprehension, which is critical in the manufacturing industry.