Unlock efficiency and control costs: Transform manufacturing with UCaaS solutions

These are interesting times for US manufacturers. Changes in trade policies and supply chain disruptions are keeping alert manufacturers on their toes, as they weigh the impact of recent developments on their businesses. This current transitional period is one wherein manufacturers are reexamining processes and procedures, in a concerted effort to make their operations nimbler and more responsive.  

While some executives express optimism, the overall outlook for US manufacturing remains challenging. This is causing tech leaders in manufacturing to focus on increased digitalization, revamped workflows, and enhanced communications to navigate the volatile environment. 

Increased digitalization has been an ongoing event in manufacturing for some time now, and manufacturers have been upgrading their tech infrastructure to accommodate this trend. And the revamping of workflows has been a continuing exercise in manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution. As tech improves, workflows evolve — that’s Manufacturing 101. 

Enhancing communications should be an ongoing effort as well, but some US manufacturers are still operating with outdated solutions, in a time where instantaneous and secure communications should be table stakes. 

One platform for text, voice and video

A Unified Communications (UC) or Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) offering combines all the tools manufacturing companies need for communication into one environment. The proper solution delivers one platform for text, voice, and video communications, accessible anywhere via any device.

This can enable manufacturing tech leaders to eliminate redundant apps and outdated solutions, increase efficiency and control costs in the home office, as well as on various factory floors. A UCaaS solution can make some costs predictable with no upfront capital expense and simple subscription pricing. Further, with UCaaS, new capabilities are updated and maintained automatically.

Sharpened insights

There are UCaaS solutions available today with a wide range of features and options that can be customized for each end user, including integration with many of the most common business applications. With solutions like this, manufacturing industry business leaders can more easily access the data they need to make decisions that directly impact a company’s bottom line.

Boosted productivity

It’s true across any industry: when management and workers communicate more effectively, project delays are considerably less common. In manufacturing, when teams use UCaaS solutions to collaborate and solve problems virtually, the traditional need for in-person interactions — and the accompanying delay — is reduced.

With the proper UC or UCaaS solution, manufacturers can keep their teams connected and ready to communicate new directives or directions immediately. By using a single platform that integrates their mobile devices for a consistent experience regardless of user location, the word that needs to get out is communicated clearly and securely. By eliminating barriers between mobile and desktop environments, the entire team can be kept in the loop. 

Smaller manufacturers often have the same communication needs as their larger corporate cousins. And if the skilled labor crunch, especially acute in the IT sector, is tough on bigger firms, it’s even tougher on smaller more resource-constrained manufacturers. As such, deploying managed solutions and services, such as UCaaS, designed to scale as application and connectivity needs grow can be even more beneficial in this space.

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Advances in analytics, security and cloud connections, as well as upscaled connectivity and networking solutions to support them, can accelerate the effectiveness of technologies on the production floor. Spectrum Business has the nationwide fiber infrastructure, network engineers, local support and industry-leading SLAs that translate to an advanced, fully integrated IT ecosystem. Our expertise, award-winning connectivity and networking solutions can streamline your operations — from the supply chain through production to your end customer’s experience.

To bring you simplified and easy-to-use solutions to handle your voice, collaboration, video conferencing and data needs, we offer some advanced UCaaS solutions. Delivered over the Cisco platform, Spectrum Business offers the modular, all-in-one platform of Managed Network Edge along with our Unified Communications (UC) with Webex service.

Learn more about building and maintaining a scalable, secure and managed UCaaS or UC solution.