Monitoring
If you want a tool to measure how your assets run when they are engaged you need OEE. Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is the standard for expressing asset performance.
Performance and challenges
-
Relentless demands on production capacity.
-
Threats from competition.
-
Risk-taking on key decisions based on suspect data.
-
Deficiency in existing data analysis tools - a deluge of data, but no information.
-
Pressure to deliver output, process and capacity improvements, while managing day-to-day operational performance, quality and compliance.
Attach to Automation
Plant floor real / time visual display of live OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) data leads to faster feedback on machine performance and improved efficiencies. This metric provides information on how your machines / manufacturing lines are performing at any given time. By using the Pragma On Key tool, information relating to what the losses are, where the losses are and what is causing them is also provided in real-time. On Key is designed to work with off the shelf hardware and software thus making it highly adaptable for most applications across the wider industry. On Key's SQL database continuously and non-intrusively polls the production control environment via an OPC server application. The information stores both machine and human production related data for subsequent analysis and retrieval.
Metrics.
A more reliable line costs less in maternials and labour to run. Lotus Automation will give you the data to measure reliability. LTS puts 'maintenance' issues at the executive level.
Software tools to analyze and optimize existing processes and OEE
Consultancy
Support
Process Flow & Cycle Time
Availability x Performance x First Pass Yield = OEE#
Optimization Analysis
Hidden capacity in manufacturing processes can be unearthed and taken advantage of to increase the bottom line. By leveraging the Lotus Automation Asset Management Division's data analysis capability and experience, improvements can be driven from the data captured by On Key. Lotus Automation Asset Management Division's engineers and analysts will continuously examine the performance of the processes being measured and generate key performance indicator (KPI) reports week on week, month on month and recommendations on where improvements can be made. By continuously focusing on the data, real improvements and real savings that hit the bottom line are experienced.
OEE Real Time
LTS OEE real-time data customers find that this infrastructure is a key driver and the foundation for a lot of other initiatives, such as Logistics, Quality Improvements, Optimization, and Labor.
Downtime
LTS Live OEE gives our clients the data to examine business utilization, planned downtime and unplanned downtime.”