The Lighthouse Operating System 2025

Maturity model excerpt – connected and transparent flows FIGURE 6 Foxconn Industrial Internet's Viet Nam site demonstrates connected and transparent production through a fully connected manufacturing ecosystem by integrating production steps with digital technologies. Initially, process automation enhanced individual workstations, ensuring adaptability in production. Building on this, vision-based positioning and design-for-excellence integration enabled seamless transitions between production steps. Logistics evolved from insular AGV solutions to an integrated manufacturing execution and warehouse management system, synchronizing all flows across the factory. By interconnecting processes, Foxconn created a continuous, self-balancing production flow, allowing real-time transparency and decision-making.Entire material supply run completely autonomous by flow planning agentEcosystem-leading 5 AGVs automatically prioritize material transports based on insights from MESBusiness-shaping Material supply largely through automated guided vehicles (AGVs) Technology-enabled Milk run schedules dynamically aligned with production speed (takt)Process-optimized Milk runs with standardized schedules in placeStandarized Line operations Demonstrating: Connected and transparent flows Excerpt from capability: Synchronized material flow 4 3 12 Source: Foxconn Industrial Internet. (2024). Connected and transparent flows case study 2.5.2 Connected and transparent flows Connecting material and information flows across the entire factory enables seamless communication and balancing of production steps, from incoming materials to outgoing products. Real-time transparency – achieved through the internet of things (IoT) and advanced monitoring systems – ensures synchronization between production steps, reducing delays and inefficiencies. This principle represents the capabilities at the factory-flow level to allow for a fully connected manufacturing ecosystem, extending and integrating individual processes into a production flow. It is the connection of multiple adaptable and robust processes into one continuous flow of production through fixed and flexible connections of workstations. This will ensure continuous material and information flow within the factory. Key processes are: –Line/in-plant operations: A plant and production-line layout that ensures maximal flexibility and optimal balancing of work content in each step –Line connection: An interconnected planning of material and information flows across all production steps that enables the reaction to demand changes on a line level –Line transparency: Full visibility on production status for workers and machines to enable steering of the in-plant flow and support synchronization throughout the end-to-end supply chain The Lighthouse Operating System: Driving Responsible Transformation 16