What are Digital Work Instructions?

Digital work instructions are electronic versions of your work instructions and SOPs. Using computers, tablets, and/or other devices, workers follow step-by-step visual instructions and achieve higher-quality results. By leveraging photos, videos, charts, 3D renderings, annotations, and much more, digital work instructions enable companies to guarantee their best practices are standardized and followed every time.

Digital work instructions are electronic versions of your work instructions and SOPs that provide valuable information to workers while connecting with other systems and tools. Using photos, videos, annotations, and much more, digital work instructions enable companies to standardize their best practices.

The Core Elements of Digital Work Instructions

With intuitive authoring tools that allow you to drag and drop elements and create advanced data collection methods, digital work instructions possess a number of features that make them incredibly easy to create, use, and follow. Based on 4 core elements, this standardization solution allows you to design work instructions for any environment.

Engaging Visuals

Strong visuals are the foundation of good digital work instructions. Drag-and-drop photos, videos, and annotations with precision and accuracy, ensuring that all employees understand their tasks perfectly.

Smart Forms

Digital smart forms enable you to capture process data directly from your shop floor. Create powerful checklists and interactive forms to record quality data, serial numbers, employee signatures, pictures, and more.

Embedded Templates

Embedded digital work instruction templates are a powerhouse when creating, updating, and maintaining multiple work instructions. Templates can be used to kick start new instructions, standardize and customize repeatable portions, and update hundreds of processes at once.

Powerful Content

When you need to add context, make every word count. Digital work instructions leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to instantly translate your text, enabling you to overcome any language barriers when sharing process knowledge with your workers and/or locations.

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Optimize & Transform Documents with Digital Work Instructions

Companies can transform their process documentation and data retrieval methods into fast and accessible digital work instructions. From gathering data to relaying information, digital work instructions make each of the following documentation types easier to use, faster to understand, and quicker to update.

Assembly Instructions
Quality Checklists
Reports & Analytics
Training Manuals
SOPs
Audit Forms
Product Histories
Maintenance Procedures

Key Benefits of Digital Work Instructions

Increase Productivity

Knowledge is power. Digital work instructions supply workers with the knowledge and best practices to perform any task. Complex processes are made easy, helping companies increase productivity by up to 75%.

By equipping the workforce with step-by-step visual instructions, companies guarantee all employees follow the most productive and efficient procedures every time.

Knowledge is power. Digital work instructions supply workers with the knowledge and best practices to perform any task, increasing productivity by 75%.

Save Time & Money

When workers have the tools and knowledge to get the job done right the first time, companies save time and money.

Digital work instructions help businesses increase their digital transformation ROI by reducing their defects, downtime, and training times. At the same time, digital work instructions are a big time saver, helping companies decrease their work instruction creation time by 60%.

Time is money. Companies can create digital work instructions 60% faster while reducing their defects, downtime, and training times, resulting in an increased digital transformation ROI.

Supercharge Training

With digital work instructions, companies can cut their training times in half while ensuring that every worker is their best worker.

All process knowledge and best practices are centralized in one accessible cloud, enabling companies to share their best process knowledge with their entire workforce.

With digital work instructions, companies can cut their training times in half while ensuring that every worker is their best worker.

Dynamically Guide Workers

In today’s manufacturing environment, processes need to be dynamic to the needs of the company and the customer.

Digital work instructions dynamically guide workers with the information they need based on the specific requirements of each work order. Product variations are built into your standardized process, ensuring that the correct process is available for each work order.

Digital work instructions dynamically guide workers with the right information based on the work order, ensuring that the correct instruction is always available for every process.

Achieve 100% Traceability

Digital work instructions empower companies to capture serial numbers, product event history, workforce data, lot numbers, compliance records, pictures, and more directly from the shop floor.

Digital smart forms, audit checklists, and connected devices enable you to fuel continuous improvement while capturing crucial in-process data for you and your customers

Digital smart forms, audit checklists, and connected devices enable you to capture serial numbers, product event history, workforce data, lot numbers, compliance records, and more.

Dramatically Reduce Defects

The precision of digital work instructions empowers companies to achieve higher levels of quality while mitigating wasteful defects and unplanned downtime.

Using digital work instructions, companies reduce defects by maximizing quality and control. With connected smart tools and real-time guidance, operators perform the right process the first time, leaving little to no room for error.

Standardized digital work instructions help reduce defects and achieve higher levels of quality control. With smart tools and real-time guidance, operators perform the right process the first time.

Monitor Performance in Real Time

Real-time data is a must-have to stay competitive within the modern fast-paced manufacturing environment

With live KPIs, SPC charts, and real-time API push notifications, digital work instructions give you a clear picture of your operations at every moment of production and help you make rapid, informed decisions.

With live KPIs, SPC charts, and API push notifications, digital work instructions give you a clear picture of your operations at every moment, empowering you to make informed decisions.

Digitally Connect Workers

Digital work instructions serve as a bridge between the digital and physical worlds, facilitating the flow of information between workers and their cyber-physical systems.

With integrated IoT tools, machines, test benches, label printers, PLCs, and databases, digital work instructions help to speed up production times and guarantee process compliance.

With integrated IoT tools, machines, test benches, label printers, PLCs, and databases, digital work instructions connect users with unlimited digital potential.

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