Smart Attend and Shea Global Partner on Smart Manufacturing Platform

Smart Attend and enterprise resource planning (ERP) company Shea Global have partnered to deliver a new smart manufacturing platform called Smart Auto. The platform aims to change the face of the automotive industry with smart manufacturing technology.

“Smart Auto is the culmination of years of work from both companies and will allow auto and auto part manufacturers to rapidly increase their operating efficiency while reducing production time across the business,” says Max Preston, GM for Smart Attend.

Built on a proprietary framework between Smart Attend’s Industrial Internet of Things-based (IIOT) production monitoring system and Shea Global’s ERP system, Smart Auto is said to offer auto manufacturers a fully pre-configured ERP solution preloaded with more than 1,000 optimized business process scenarios, reportedly reducing implementation time by up to 70% in comparison to most other large-scale ERP systems.

A key element of the Smart Auto system is the ability to rapidly deploy across business functions and legacy machinery. Smart Auto, with integrated MES, can be up and running in eight weeks for rapid turnkey deployment across business units and locations.

“We are proud of our ability to develop hardware, engineer software and partner with industry leaders who make us a better service provider,” adds Preston. “Shea Global represents an important milestone in Smart Attend’s journey, and we are excited about what the future holds for automotive manufacturing.”