Resources

Whether you're new to the concept of manufacturing intelligence, or you'd like to discover more detailed information about the impact of Activplant, the Activplant Performance Management System or Activplant Services on a specific area of your operation, please see below for a list of all our available literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Click here if you need to download Acrobat Reader.

Corporate Brochures

• Throughput Analyzer™ - Rate Based Edition
  A proven performance management application that simplifies the complexities of high volume packaging, bottling and other continuous flow manufacturing environments, by identifying and prioritizing the chronic disruptors to product flow (the constraints). This edition was specifically designed for high volume, continuous flow manufacturers in Food & Beverage, Packaging, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Packaged Goods industries.
• Throughput Analyzer™ - Cycle Based Edition
  The Throughput Analyzer™ performance management application automates the identification of true chronic constraints and provides the information to improve production throughput in high volume discrete manufacturing facilities. This edition was specifically designed for manufacturers whose products are produced in a one-piece flow environment and are measured to takt time such as engines, powertrains, component parts and vehicles.
• Throughput Appliance
  Activplant's Throughput Appliance offers a low cost and repeatable solution for plants with low or no automation layer that desire the performance management results of Throughput Analyzer. By adding a low level automation layer, Throughput Appliance – an easily installed middle interface - bridges the gap in the automation layer making Throughput Analyzer a reality in these environments.
• Activplant's Insight for Excel
  Activplant’s Insight for Excel is the answer for Activplant Performance Management Solution (APMS) users that demand an out-of-the-box tool for customized, ad hoc reporting. This companion module eliminates the waiting and high costs that come with hiring consultants to design proprietary reports.
• Activplant's ActivEssentials® 5
  The next generation performance management platform from Activplant is a mature, robust and unparalleled platform equipped to power your plant floor information needs. ActivEssentials 5 is the key technology enabler at the heart of the Activplant Performance Management System (APMS) and empowers ActivApplications.
• Activplant Performance Management System (APMS)
  Today's APMS respresents a significant evolution. Activplant has taken this proven system to the next level in response to the pressing needs of global manufacturers - our singular focus is on driving performance management forward to impact bottom-line results.
• Understanding Manufacturing Intelligence
  In today's highly competitive manufacturing environment, the difference between knowing and not knowing the critical issues on the plant floor will be the difference between success and failure.
• Activplant Enterprise Gateway
  Activplant Enterprise Gateway seamlessly integrates Activplant with your business systems, including your ERP, MRP, SCM, CMMS and APS systems. Based on rules you establish, Activplant Enterprise Gateway automatically exchanges plant floor data, warnings and alerts with your business systems in the format that these systems require.
• Activplant Root Cause Assignment Module
  The Activplant Root Cause Assignment Module allows you to collect both structured and unstructured manual data on the causes of machine incidents, edit that information, report on it and analyze it. This data provides the manufacturing intelligence needed to identify and fix root causes, thus reducing unscheduled downtime.

Industry Datasheets

• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Bottling
  The solution for bottlers that address the everyday challenges faced in their industry. By eliminating the waste caused by constraints, getting more units/cases out the door with fewer resources is no longer a challenge but a reality. Whether the constraint is on a 12 oz. can or a 2 liter bottle of soda, the Throughput Analyzer will account for every second of production and identify with the touch of a button whether the root cause is a changeover issue, speed loss or downtime loss.
• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Packaging
  The solution for packagers that eliminates the waste caused by constraints and facilitates an increase in units while driving unit and packaging costs down.
• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Discrete Manufacturing
  Activplant's Throughput Analyzer is a proven performance management application that simplifies the complexities of discrete manufacturing.
• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Automotive Manufacturing
  A software solution for Automotive OEM's that will get more jobs per hour out the door with fewer resources by accounting for every second of production.
• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Automotive Supplier
  A software solution for Automotive Suppliers that will get more parts out the door with fewer resources by accounting for every second of production with the touch of a button.
• Throughput Analyzer Industry Perspective: Powertrain Manufacturing
  Now engine, transmission & powertrain components manufacturers have software that can identify constraints specific to their operations while using fewer resources that will drive the overall part and component costs down.

Services Brochures

• Client Success Methodology
  A description of the services offered by Activplant Corporation.
• Activplant's Mass Configuration Tool
  You now have the power to make extensive changes to plant configuration in a matter of moments.
• Training Services
  Description of the training services available from Activplant Corporation.

Recorded Events

• Solving the Downtime Dilemma  (June 11, 2008)
• Challenging OEE Webinar  (January 9, 2008)
• It's About Time - Lean Manufacturing Webinar  (March 28, 2007)
• Constraint Theory Webinar  (March 1, 2007)
• Lean Manufacturing Webinar  (November 17, 2006)
• Throughput Analyzer Webinar  (June 27, 2006)

White Papers (Registration Required)

• Solving the Downtime Dilemma
  5 Reasons to Look Beyond Your Top 10 Downtime List (June 2008)
• The OEE Deficit
  Why it can't deliver the results you require (January 2008)
• Applying the Theory of Constraints to a Lean Manufacturing Environment
  November 2006
• AberdeenGroup Benchmark Report
  Manufacturing Performance Management (September 2006)
• Beyond Visibility:
  An Advanced Approach to Performance Management (February 2006)
• Manufacturing Transparency
  Turning Visibility into Value - by AberdeenGroup (December 2005)
• Birth-History Reporting
  A Key to Warranty Risk Mitigation (December 2005)
• Improving Lean Initiatives
  A Focus on Waste (October 2005)
• Successful New Product Launches
  Using Critical Manufacturing Intelligence to Meet Multiple Challenges (September 2005)
• Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence
  The Power to Drive Results White Paper (February 2004)
• The Universal Factory Data Model
  The Core Enabler of Manufacturing Intelligence White Paper (February 2004)

Activplant Solutions Documents (Registration Required)

• Activplant and Lean Manufacturing