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ActivApplications
ActivApplications are the next generation in performance management applications. These purposely built software applications are designed to solve real industry needs in critical areas. With rapid speed to results, ActivApplications empower your continuous improvement teams with focused information that leads to real performance improvements. As the first company to take an application driven approach to solving real business problems, Activplant has become the de-facto standard in the industry.
In a matter of hours, most manufacturing intelligence companies can overwhelm you with enough data and paperwork to bury you at your desk for weeks. The challenge is how to identify and analyze the relevant data and then make actionable decisions with it.
Only Activplant's focused applications like the Throughput Analyzer™ actually tell you where your problems are and lead you to the area that will provide you the greatest improvements and cost savings.
ActivApplications are powerful next generation performance applications, but they are only made possible because of the robust and unparalleled performance management platform: ActivEssentials®. ActivApplications focus on particular manufacturing objectives, but are empowered by ActivEssentials® technology components. These key technology enablers provide the required contextualized transparency for true clarity on the plant floor.
Activplant's Throughput Analyzer application is the first constraint-based approach to maximizing the flow of product through a plant. Throughput Analyzer collects less data from the plant floor, but provides more critical, decision-enabling information for machine operators and management. This is accomplished by limiting and prioritizing data collection and identifying the key chronic constraints that must be corrected to meet a specified throughput target. This application allows plant operators to focus their efforts on corrections that will lead to the greatest improvements in plant performance. The result is increased throughput and the identification and recovery of lost minutes on the plant floor.
"Manufacturers need to be able to improve plant performance by eliminating bottlenecks one constraint at a time. By focusing directly on true constraints, Activplant’s throughput Analyzer brings a higher level of clarity to manufacturing operations and can significantly improve efficiency on the plant floor."
- Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group VP of Collaborative Manufacturing
Potential Future Applications
Application Focus on Product Launch Acceleration
This ActivApplication addresses the three most critical challenges in product launches: achieving designed throughput, minimizing the affects of unscheduled downtime and assuring process capability and quality.
By providing accurate, real-time data about what is happening on the line; Product Launch Acceleration helps you determine exactly which adjustments are needed throughout the launch process to maintain maximum performance. And just as importantly, you can track the results of your corrective actions so future launches can benefit.
Application Focus on Traceability, Compliance & Error Proofing
Guided by a profits perspective and viewed through the lenses of Activplant's birth history report and Insight for Excel, the ActivApplication for Traceability offers added confidence by presenting a complete quality picture to plant floor operators and management. It offers risk mitigation through product and process traceability, capturing rich information in context for improved product quality and a proactive approach to warranty reduction.
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