What would a 10% increase in productivity mean for your business?
Meet the proven solution installed in every type of discrete parts manufacturing process. Connect directly to all types of production equipment through a family of Machine/Operator Data Transducers (MDT). Match your data collection, data display, operator interface and ERP integration requirements to individual machine functionality.
Installed in over 700 manufacturing facilities of all types and sizes, our clients realize at least a 10% improvement in productivity.
Reduce Fixed Labor Costs
By eliminating manual data collection, data review and transcription/re-entry, associated fixed labor costs are immediately reduced. Production/productivity reports are automatically prepared by the system–in a format you want, whenever you specify.
By eliminating manual data collection, data review and transcription/re-entry, associated fixed labor costs are immediately reduced. Production/productivity reports are automatically prepared by the system–in a format you want, whenever you specify.
Effective Preventive Maintenance Programs
Calendar scheduling of preventive maintenance is not efficient because it’s based on “guesstimates” of run time and cycle count. Now you can schedule maintenance based on actual, automatically collected run time and number of cycles on a part/tool, thus reducing unplanned downtime.
Reduced die maintenance resets due to the PM program has saved us almost $8,000 per year.
Improved Manufacturing Productivity
By being able to accurately determine causes for downtime, management can direct resources to minimizing the causes.
Overall plant uptime increased 11%.
Enterprise-Wide Data Integration
System enables a bi-directional, automatic data link between the shop floor and scheduling/MRP II/MES/maintenance systems. The Ability to send dispatch lists “down” and production data “up” makes MRP II system more responsive and accurate. Users report electronically updating inventory records improves inventory accuracy by as much as 20%.
By directly uploading production data from the machine monitors to the System/36, we’ve eliminated all the counting, manual keypunching, and paperwork.
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Meet the proven solution installed in every type of discrete parts manufacturing process. Connect directly to all types of production equipment through a family of Machine/Operator Data Transducers (MDT). Match your data collection, data display, operator interface and ERP integration requirements to individual machine functionality.
Automated Production Scheduling
By enabling production requirements to be automatically downloaded from the plant’s production planning or MRP II system, the system calculates completion dates based on amount of production scheduled, machine setup/changeover time, individual machine efficiencies, and real-time information from the currently running jobs. The system also allows the scheduler to run “what if” scenarios to see immediately the impact of rush orders and schedule changes.
We’ve been able to give our customer real delivery dates and adhere to them. I don’t know if you can put a price tag on that.
Maintain Equipment Operating Efficiency at Maximum Capacity
Detect slowdowns, bottlenecks and problems immediately, before production suffers, thereby reducing need for additional manufacturing capacity. System users report 5 to 15% productivity gains merely from monitoring the shop floor in real-time.
It was originally thought that this (problem) occurred once or twice an hour. It turns out that it was happening five times an hour with a loss of one hour of production per shift.
Increase Productivity By Eliminating Unnecessary Machine Adjustments
Operators and managers can see how long a machine takes to stabilize, so adjustments aren’t made prematurely during stabilization periods or at shift/job/operator change. Displays of machine parameters eliminates machine setup guesswork and enables shift to shift consistency of settings.
A 5% increase in productivity on 20 machines is equal to getting an extra machine for the cost of the system.
Improve Job Costing Accuracy
Manufacturers establish job standards, but typically can’t verify them against actual activities because no simple, cost-effective method exists. Machine Data Transducers provide automated, accurate collection of cycle time, run time, setup time, down time, production and reject counts and labor hours that makes job costing accurate.
Managing our operations used to be difficult. Presses that were supposed to be running (especially full auto) many times were not, and often this went unnoticed. There is no longer unaccounted-for down time because the information is automatically printed at the end of each shift.