Exploring Industrial Guided Tasks
Manage your industrial guided task (IGT) standards with Industrial Guided Tasks.
Industrial Guided Tasks overview
Industrial Guided Tasks (IGT) are designed to streamline and improve operational efficiency across the shop floor. These tasks offer step-by-step guidance to operators and cover a wide array of use cases, from equipment management to shop floor inspections. By integrating guided instructions, Industrial Guided Tasks enable accurate execution and help standardize processes.
The solution enables you to design tasks in a structured and consistent way based on standards and templates. For example, it enables operators and line managers to do the following:
- Author and manage their own tasks without extensive technical knowledge
- Centralize process management by removing paperwork and additional applications and tools
- Create sets of tasks that are tailored to a specific factory use case
- Standardize the execution of work processes
- Schedule tasks
- Assign tasks only to workers who meet the specified criteria
- Analyze execution insights directly from an industrial standard record to drive continuous improvement
- Track the actual duration of task execution on both the Digital Factory Workspace and Industrial Connected Workforce Mobile Experience (ICW) mobile to compare actual performance against planned timelines
Industrial Guided Tasks users
| User | Description |
|---|---|
| Operator | Operators perform tasks or standards that are planned for their line or equipment. They might also request a standard when needed. |
| Equipment owner | Equipment owners can be operators. They’re responsible for running their equipment in the most optimal conditions and maintaining manufacturing standards. |
Industrial Guided Tasks benefits
The Industrial Guided Tasks application enables you to:
- Develop standards from templates that apply to various manufacturing use cases, such as cleaning instructions, equipment inspections, and workplace ordering.
- Provides a guided experience so that you can effectively and efficiently execute the planned work.
- When you create and save standards, you can view, request, or copy them in the Standards hub.
- When you attach a knowledge article to an IGT standard, the related article is available for every task created from that standard via the Recommendations sidebar.
- View embedded shopfloor insights on every published standard record to analyze execution performance across shifts, lines, and versions.
- Use execution analytics to identify performance gaps, track completion rates, and monitor follow-up actions and deviations.
- Compare execution results across standard versions to measure the impact of improvements to the standard.
- Automatically track actual task execution duration on both the Digital Factory Workspace and ICW mobile to measure the percentage of tasks closed in time and compare actual versus planned performance.