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Smart operations for energy, resources, and industrials

Enhance digital operations for a competitive advantage

The adoption of Industry 4.0 by energy, resources, and industrials (ER&I) companies has transformed competition in the sector. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics enable leading organizations to operate in smarter ways, unlocking growth and innovation. Explore how our Smart Operations offering can give you an edge throughout your transformation.

What are smart operations?

A smart-“er” operation uses digital capabilities to drive higher performance outcomes versus a baseline. Smart operations applies these capabilities at an enterprise scale.

This application of novel digital solutions has helped some organizations overcome their most persistent operations challenges and has unlocked new opportunities for growth and innovation for others. The coverage of these human + digital capabilities is also expanding into every aspect of the business, including factories, the salesforce, HR, IT, and more. 

This increased utilization of modern digital tech, such as IIoT, cloud, AI, and analytics, has fundamentally changed the way leading organizations operate in ever smarter ways—by blending together digital and human intelligence at increasing levels of scale, scope, and complexity.

Our goal at Deloitte is to be your partner of choice as you go through this journey. We believe we have the most robust offerings in the marketplace to assist you in this smart transformation.

Smart operations overview

The smart operations process

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Establish a digital record

Capture information from the physical world to create a digital record of the physical operation and supply network.

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Analyze and visualize

Machines “talk” to each other to share information, allowing for advanced analytics and visualizations of real-time data from multiple sources.

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Generate action

Apply algorithms and automation to translate decisions and actions from the digital world into activity in the physical world.

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It’s time to operate on all cylinders

Ready to unleash the potential of smart operations? Revolutionize your production processes, enhance performance, and accelerate growth with Deloitte’s IndustryAdvantage approach to operations transformation.

Smart operations for your industry

Where—and how—do you start implementing smart operations? And if you’ve already started, how can you scale and accelerate your return on investment? We find it helpful to narrow the aperture and frame use cases around the most relevant solutions in the industry.

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    Smart Manufacturing

    Smart Manufacturing

    Smart manufacturing narrows the gap between physical and digital worlds by connecting and collecting production data, analyzing that data to drive better production decisions, and augmenting human intelligence with machine intelligence to deliver performance and safety improvements.

    Smart Manufacturing

    Smart manufacturing narrows the gap between physical and digital worlds by connecting and collecting production data, analyzing that data to drive better production decisions, and augmenting human intelligence with machine intelligence to deliver performance and safety improvements.
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    Smart Utility

    Smart Utility

    Modernize your utility networks through digitization to save costs, sustain differentiation, and build customer loyalty in an increasingly competitive environment.

    Smart Utility

    Modernize your utility networks through digitization to save costs, sustain differentiation, and build customer loyalty in an increasingly competitive environment.
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    Intelligent Supply

    Intelligent Supply

    Improve planning and decision-making, increase visibility and responsiveness, and drive improvements to procurement operations and supplier collaboration.

    Intelligent Supply

    Improve planning and decision-making, increase visibility and responsiveness, and drive improvements to procurement operations and supplier collaboration.
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    Connected Aftermarket

    Connected Aftermarket

    Improve operations and drive value by planning the right service, optimized to deliver at the right time, with the right parts and technicians positioned in the right place.

    Connected Aftermarket

    Improve operations and drive value by planning the right service, optimized to deliver at the right time, with the right parts and technicians positioned in the right place.
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    Smart Field

    Smart Field

    Create real-time visibility into performance and impact of your extended network of production assets, using it to improve productivity, efficiency, and safety at scale.

    Smart Field

    Create real-time visibility into performance and impact of your extended network of production assets, using it to improve productivity, efficiency, and safety at scale.
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    Digital Control Applications

    Digital Control Applications

    Our Smart Operations Application Development offering focuses on orchestrating action by facilitating the flow of work across systems and data.

    Digital Control Applications

    Our Smart Operations Application Development offering focuses on orchestrating action by facilitating the flow of work across systems and data.
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    Smart Fulfillment

    Smart Fulfillment

    Coordinate your logistics strategies, implement warehouse and transportation management systems, and utilize robotic solutions to maximize efficiency, control, and network visibility.

    Smart Fulfillment

    Coordinate your logistics strategies, implement warehouse and transportation management systems, and utilize robotic solutions to maximize efficiency, control, and network visibility.
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    Strategic Workforce Planning

    Strategic Workforce Planning

    Accurately forecast and visualize labor demand, proactively identify gaps in supply, and then integrate these planning strategies across the enterprise to drive proactive, data-backed decision-making.

    Strategic Workforce Planning

    Accurately forecast and visualize labor demand, proactively identify gaps in supply, and then integrate these planning strategies across the enterprise to drive proactive, data-backed decision-making.
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    Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment

    Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment

    Understand and begin preparing for the release of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).

    Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment

    Understand and begin preparing for the release of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
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    Our smart operations alliance partners

    We work in close collaboration with The Smart Factory by Deloitte @ Wichita, which brings together an ecosystem of collaborators to solve the toughest manufacturing challenges and accelerate digital transformations. Manufacturing ecosystems like ours demonstrate how quickly co-innovation and collaboration can occur when organizations have a common goal. The Smart Factory ecosystem of partners creates value greater than the sum of its parts, creating exponential results for organizations.       

    Why Deloitte?

    We can help you evaluate, implement, and deploy digital operation solutions to designed to transform your systems, processes, and talent to maximize value.

    Given today’s market dynamics, we believe ER&I companies that possess a great proportion of digital intelligence compared to their competition will hold a strategic advantage. These companies are leaner, more productive, and more responsive and provide better-quality products and services—all critical to winning in the market. Smart operations are critical to that success, and their importance is accelerating exponentially. Our team of industry veterans and our cross-industry offerings enable you to move beyond small-scale optimization and into all-encompassing transformation that can help solve your unique challenges.

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