Focus on the real source of issues

Cost reductions will increase profits more than increasing sales.  It’s the reason why it’s so critical for companies to make the best possible use of their equipment resources – if production is optimized, the company
can wring more income from every sales dollar. 

By tracking, recording and analyzing downtime of machinery so management can streamline production and enhance profitability.

• Collecting equipment stoppage information historically has been a major issue for many companies.

• Manual reporting is error-prone, old, and unavailable for analysis

• Often, downtime involves small but repetitive losses and therefore some downtime doesn’t even get recorded.

These problems can be solved by providing an automated toolset that interfaces with existing plant floor control systems. Many times the most problematic downtimes are those that are of very short duration but which occur frequently. Operators often become used to clearing a system fault quickly and therefore no longer consider the downtime associated with 10 or 20 quick two-minute fixes to be more than one incident during a shift. They may also fail to notice other problems that occur upstream or downstream as a result of starting or stopping a production line, which can lead to downtime that iserroneously attributed to a given piece of equipment. Properly logged and researched, a manufacturer can identify production weaknesses, optimize production processes and tap into a plant’s “hidden capacity” simply by reducing overall downtimes, changeover time, maintenance problems and product flow orbottleneck problems.

Focus on the real source of issues

Cost reductions will increase profits more than increasing sales.  It’s the reason why it’s so critical for companies to make the best possible use of their equipment resources – if production is optimized, the company
can wring more income from every sales dollar. 

By tracking, recording and analyzing downtime of machinery so management can streamline production and enhance profitability.

• Collecting equipment stoppage information historically has been a major issue for many companies.

• Manual reporting is error-prone, old, and unavailable for analysis

• Often, downtime involves small but repetitive losses and therefore some downtime doesn’t even get recorded.

These problems can be solved by providing an automated toolset that interfaces with existing plant floor control systems. Many times the most problematic downtimes are those that are of very short duration but which occur frequently. Operators often become used to clearing a system fault quickly and therefore no longer consider the downtime associated with 10 or 20 quick two-minute fixes to be more than one incident during a shift. They may also fail to notice other problems that occur upstream or downstream as a result of starting or stopping a production line, which can lead to downtime that iserroneously attributed to a given piece of equipment. Properly logged and researched, a manufacturer can identify production weaknesses, optimize production processes and tap into a plant’s “hidden capacity” simply by reducing overall downtimes, changeover time, maintenance problems and product flow or bottleneck problems.