Best Practice #6: Real-time Manufacturing Intelligence

This best practice is responsible for reducing uptime losses from blocked, starved or waiting conditions, as well as providing the real-time manufacturing intelligence that operations management requires to be effective. Activplant Performance Management System collects uptime loss times and provides analytical reports, tools and methods to quickly identify assets or lines that are suffering from uptime losses and find what is causing this uptime loss. The system also delivers real-time intelligence, such as JPH, machine states, process metrics, job loss causes, and WIP inventory levels.

The benefits of the best practice include:

• Improved delivery performance:
  • Improvements in on-time shipments
• Increase in throughput at final assembly
• Reduced maintenance costs:
  • Reductions in maintenance labor
  • Reductions in MRO material costs

Display all the key real-time status data on Andon, Marquees or Plasma Displays so that everyone
is current with production status and can react faster to issues