Downtime & Waste
- Identifying the top reasons for downtime and waste
- Simplifying predictive and preventive maintenance processes
- Pinpointing past and potential cause of failures
- Immediately identifying point-of-failure in machinery
- Disaster Recovery
Quality
- Seeing SPC/SQC data and quality exceptions in real time
- Identifying how raw materials affect quality & which suppliers are most consistent
- Seeing process recipes & quality specifications seamlessly together
- Reporting complete product “Genealogy” and creating Certificates of Analysis
Efficiency & Productivity
- Identifying bottlenecks
- See current production & efficiency vs. standard vs. budget & forecast – in real-time
- Reducing cycle time, WIP and inventory
- Product changeovers
- Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) in real time
- Line optimization and utilization
- Understanding how upstream lines affect downstream lines
Regulatory Compliance
- Documenting procedures & recipes and creating an audit trail
- Painlessly generate compliance and government reports for FDA, EPA, etc.
- Implementing electronic record-keeping solutions
- Integrating operator workflow into batch recipes
- Protect, save, restore, discover, and track changes to programming, setpoints, work instructions, and reports
- Work instructions: availability to operators, record of use
Safety
- Enhancing operator awareness and reaction
- Improving control system integrity and security
- Isolating hazardous areas and equipment grounding
Energy Use & Cost
- Managing all Utilities (water, air, gas, electricity, steam)
- Reducing harmonics, power quality problems and imbalances
- Curtailing utility use before penalties ensue
- Viewing real-time reports of any facility or line from any location
Common Challenges
- Lack of accurate and timely data for Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma initiatives
- Intuition, but lack of hard evidence to justify improvements and budgets
- Determining Availability or Capability to Promise
- Spending too much time and resources collecting vs. analyzing information and creating reports
- “Silos” of data: disparate, segregated databases preventing integrated analysis
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