Manufacturing Performance Improvement and the Benefits of Production Control Systems.
There is always room for manufacturing performance improvement in any manufacturing operation no matter how efficient it is. In fact it tends to be the most efficient operations that understand this and strive hardest for continuous improvement. The most efficient manufacturers are also those that understand how crucial it is to have accurate real time information about their production operations.
Production control systems monitor manufacturing asset run status continuously to give you accurate operational metrics that can be accessed enterprise wide.
Being able to access accurate “live” real time production information gives manufacturers a range of benefits including;
It’s like the difference between a hand tool and a power tool. If you do not use this type of system you are at a serious competitive disadvantage to those that do.
Production control systems monitor manufacturing asset run status continuously to give you accurate operational metrics that can be accessed enterprise wide.
Being able to access accurate “live” real time production information gives manufacturers a range of benefits including;
- Identify losses from breakdowns, changeovers, operators, planning
- Identify the real reasons for machine stoppages
- Improve quality by accurately reporting scrap and rework
- Accurately measure short stoppage times
- Manage operator timekeeping to minimize “no operator” stops
- Measuring maintenance responsiveness, engineer attendance and wait times
- Motivate operators by performance feedback of actual and target output
- Manage bottleneck constraints to optimize capacity
- Cost justify expenditure on new equipment
- Trial process improvements before roll out
- Respond rapidly to stoppages and production disturbances.
- Accelerate the gains from lean techniques and continuous improvement programs
It’s like the difference between a hand tool and a power tool. If you do not use this type of system you are at a serious competitive disadvantage to those that do.
