Industry Solutions

The ActivEssentials platform is in use with many of the world’s best-known and admired manufacturers, who use our software as the foundation of their supply chain management and continuous improvement initiatives. They look upon Activplant as a companion on their journey to success. These companies reside in a broad variety of manufacturing spaces, using an extensive range of manufacturing techniques. In each instance, the flexibility of our software has enabled them to find numerous solutions to their production needs.

Industries such as automotive (both OEM and suppliers), pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, forestry products, soft drinks producers, breweries, and so the list goes on, have all found value in using our software: they have reduced costs, seen significant increases in productivity, and have found levels of efficiency that they only dreamed of in the past.

Consumer Packaged Goods

The global consumer packaged goods industry is extremely broad and has enormous consumer diversity. The range of products seems endless, but individual manufacturers face aggressive competition from almost everywhere on the globe.

To remain competitive in markets where the regulatory environment can be intense and vary by region; where individual retailers can force expensive changes to the terms of business to suit their own needs; and where the competition is always trying to steal your customers, you need a helping hand. Activplant can help.

Our software sits at the very heart of your supply chain and lets you delve deeply into the complex interactions that occur on your production lines. We can help you:

Save by reducing waste
Satisfy regulations about resource use
Record RFID information, if available at the PLC level
Find efficiencies you didn't know existed

Our software can give you the tools to initiate track and trace, do change-over analysis, find production constraints, conduct root cause analysis of production difficulties, and provide detailed reporting. You'll be astonished with what Activplant can do for you.

The ActivEssentials platform gives you complete configuration flexibility, or you can use an off-the-shelf Application that presents a wide range of performance metrics. Our Throughput Analyzer Application includes our patented Throughput Capability metric, which has revolutionized constraint analysis, and our Integration Toolkit application allows you to design reports and export the ActivEssentials data into third-party applications, such as MES and ERP. ActivEssentials is a truly enterprise solution.

Bottling Industry

The bottling industry ranges from smaller operations serving local markets to divisions of multinational conglomerates with facilities and distribution centers across the globe.

To remain competitive within a regulations bound environment, where there are strong seasonal swings in demand and every other producer wants a larger slice of the pie, you must exercise control over your production environment. Your production lines run at high speed, yet being able to get the most from your production lines seems always to elude you. You know you should be able to do better, and yet you cannot find within the confusing array of data what aflicts your line. Activplant can help.

Our software lets you delve deeply into the complex interactions that occur on your production lines. We can help you with:

Achieving significant improvement in OEE
Standardized reporting and continuous improvement initiatives
Real-time and trended feedback
Reducing waste
Satisfying regulations about resource use
Finding efficiencies you didn't know existed

Our software can give you the tools to find production constraints, assess production results by shifts or by any other unique or repetitive production occurrence, conduct root cause analysis of production difficulties, and provide detailed reporting. You'll be astonished with what Activplant can do for you.

The ActivEssentials platform gives you complete configuration flexibility, or you can use an off-the-shelf Application that presents a wide range of performance metrics. Our Throughput Analyzer application includes our patented Throughput Capability metric, which has revolutionized constraint analysis, and our Integration Toolkit application allows you to design reports and export the ActivEssentials data into third-party applications, such as MES and ERP. ActivEssentials is a truly enterprise solution.

Process Manufacturing

If you feel that software, which is primarily designed for discrete manufacturing, has no use in process manufacturing, read on. We have many users in the process manufacturing realm who use our software for monitoring the final stages of their manufacturing process; the point at which you package your product.

In process manufacturing, a primary goal is to maximize the yield from your raw materials to ensure the most profitable use of what you have, but how do you measure your yield; how do you measure equipment performance as you extract your yield? Activplant can help by letting you:

Monitor each of your yield producing actions
Measure your output
Use our specialized tools for highlighting production incidents and identifying their root causes
Assess production results by shifts or by any other unique or repetitive production occurrence in your plant

The ActivEssentials platform has the flexibility to model complex factory operations, without being complex itself.

The cost of your raw materials may fluctuate, but competitive pressures might force you to maintain your current sales pricing. To remain competitive, you have to find other ways of curtailing your expenses. Software that points to your inefficiencies, and gives you the tools to find their root causes makes sense. You'll be astonished with what Activplant can do for you.

The ActivEssentials platform gives you complete configuration flexibility, or you can use an off-the-shelf Application that presents a wide range of performance metrics. Our Throughput Analyzer application includes our patented Throughput Capability metric, which has revolutionized constraint analysis, and our Integration Toolkit application allows you to design reports and export the ActivEssentials data into third-party applications, such as MES and ERP. ActivEssentials is a truly enterprise solution.

High Volume - Discrete Manufacturing

If you are one of the many high-volume discrete manufacturers, you need tools that help you drive costs down. You likely face strenuous competition from a host of competitors, or need to keep competitors out of the market by strengthening your barriers to their entry—higher quality and lower price. In either case, having good Business Intelligence about your manufacturing operations, can set you apart.

You might need to work within a regulatory framework that monitors resource use and other regulations that vary by destination market, both of which could require statistical reporting. Activplant can help.

Our software lets you delve deeply into the complex interactions that occur on your production lines. We can help you:

Save by reducing waste
Satisfy regulations about resource use
Record RFID information, if available at the PLC level
Assess production results by shifts or by any other unique or repetitive production occurrence in your plant
Find efficiencies you didn't know existed

Our software can give you the tools to conduct track and trace, do change-over analysis, find production constraints, do root cause analysis of production difficulties, and provide detailed reporting. You'll be astonished with what Activplant can do for you.

The ActivEssentials platform gives you complete configuration flexibility, or you can use an off-the-shelf Application that presents a wide range of performance metrics. Our Throughput Analyzer application includes our patented Throughput Capability metric, which has revolutionized constraint analysis, and our Integration Toolkit application allows you to design reports and export the ActivEssentials data into third-party applications, such as MES and ERP. ActivEssentials is a truly enterprise solution.

Automotive - OEM and Suppliers

Globally, the automotive industry is in a time of change. The market is evolving rapidly as consumer tastes shift, so manufacturers need products that fit this new order.

Having the ActivEssentials platform in place when you start your production ramp-up can help you enormously in finding inefficiencies as you start your testing. Users of our software have stated that they have been able to take weeks off this ramp-up phase, which has allowed them to start full production significantly ahead of schedule. And once you start full production you can depend on ActivEssentials to keep you running at your designed output.

Our software lets you delve deeply into the complex interactions that occur on your production lines. We can help you:

Determine OEE and Attainment, or any other metric you relate to your production
Provide real-time information for Andon and similar displays on the plant floor
Do detailed downtime analysis
Save by reducing waste
Predict MTBF and MTTR
Track quality to assist in warranty solutions
Find efficiencies you didn't know existed

Our software can give you the tools to conduct track and trace, assess production results by shifts or by any other unique or repetitive production occurrence, do change-over analysis, find production constraints, do root cause analysis of production difficulties, and provide detailed reporting. You'll be astonished with what Activplant can do for you.

The ActivEssentials platform gives you complete configuration flexibility, or you can use an off-the-shelf Application that presents a wide range of performance metrics. Our Throughput Analyzer application includes our patented Throughput Capability metric, which has revolutionized constraint analysis, and our Integration Toolkit application allows you to design reports and export the ActivEssentials data into third-party applications, such as MES and ERP. ActivEssentials is a truly enterprise solution.