Inspired by the human nervous system, Neural Manufacturing™ helps manufacturing businesses become intelligent, resilient, adaptive, and purpose-driven through connected, cognitive, and collaborative capabilities. These essential ingredients help enterprises build next-generation value chains.
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The pace of this transformation has accelerated multifold post the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrating the industry’s resilience and agility. TCS Neural Manufacturing™ enables manufacturers to become future-ready by building connected, cognitive, and collaborative ecosystems. With businesses focused on unparalleled agility and exponential growth for competitive advantage, their transformation roadmap requires building next-generation value chains. These value chains have intelligence built on the edge of their networks, enabling faster decision-making, thus helping businesses to orchestrate ecosystem-centric business models.
These require human-like neural capabilities such as simultaneous central and distributed decision-making. Combinatorial trends encompassing data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cognitive computing, cloud computing, agile methodologies, and ubiquitous connectivity are bringing about paradigm shifts in the operating models as well as business strategies for manufacturing enterprises. These enterprises will start gravitating towards orchestrating purpose-driven ecosystems and a stream of value-added services for customers to deliver superior business results.
The TCS Neural Manufacturing suite offers enterprises three core solutions for their transformation:
Cognitive enterprise: To build AI and prescriptive analytics capabilities across the enterprise functions, enabling autonomous behavior in products, processes, and customer engagements. These can be made possible through a neural information fabric.
Connected value chains: To bring visibility across value chain partners to drive agility and co-innovation and establish new target operating models.
Collaborative ecosystems: To design and operate purpose-centric ecosystems that create exponential business value.
The triangulation of these core capabilities can pivot manufacturing enterprises to build new sources of sustainable competitive advantage, as depicted in Figure 1.
The transformation to the future manufacturing enterprise is powered by data and a contemporary, scalable digital core. TCS enables this journey with a phased roadmap:
Phase 1: Neural thinking for enterprises to plan their business strategy, target operating models, and ecosystem constructs. TCS helps with an opportunity assessment and business case.
Phase 2: Neural capabilities, including a neural information fabric, to build the digital core and enable the orchestration of ecosystems through data-driven platforms.
Phase 3: To demonstrate neural behaviors, manufacturers can introduce adaptability and resilience in their ecosystem operations, thus creating a true agile enterprise with a portfolio of intelligent products and services.
With a neural-by-design approach, TCS helps enterprises sense, perceive, and act in a near autonomous way while orchestrating purpose-driven ecosystems with neural capabilities.
The TCS Neural Manufacturing approach helps enterprises:
Develop adaptive capabilities to serve end-customers with personalized experiences, services, and products.
Augment human capability and help enterprises engage with smart connected products and assets with automation and AI in business operations.
Ensure circularity and sustainability in business operations.
Orchestrate purpose-driven ecosystems for innovation and growth using connected, collaborative, and cognitive capabilities, as against the left-to-right cost-plus model
Manufacturers stand to gain when they partner with TCS:
Cross-industry experience: Building and orchestrating products and services by leveraging TCS’ expertise of working with customers across industries such as travel and transportation, retail, insurance, and more.
Deep domain and technical expertise: Leveraging product and enterprise knowledge and technological expertise across the manufacturing value chain to create operating business models and technology applications that are benchmarked against industry standards.
Assets and frameworks: TCS’ experienced consultants, backed by mature best practices, data and analytics-centric platforms and solutions, enable faster solution deployments.
Global presence: A well-established global footprint helps TCS achieve smoother rollouts and deliver robust post-implementation support.
Co-innovation: Accelerating enterprises’ path to value through a network of start-ups, academic partners, and facilities such as the TCS Neural Automotive and Industrial Experience Center, TCS Pace Port™, and TCS Rapid Labs.