BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Real Time Access to Your Data
Poor performance indicators make for poor outcomes.
Companies today continue to tolerate and accept how labor and production information is recorded, and the reliability on that information is questionable. In addition to collecting labor and production information, there are many other pieces of information manually recorded from the shop floor.
A critical element of information for productivity throughput would be to examine how much time the work center or machine was actually up and running. Downtime is another critical element of data that is usually manually recorded along with a reason identifying what caused production to stop. If this information is not provided on a timely and accurate basis, then what good is it anyway? Forms are filled out, data may or may not be keyed to a spreadsheet, the forms are sorted and filed, but is anybody really looking at the information that was recorded? Think about the amount of time it takes to manage the manual collection of information from your shop floor.
What would real time access to data mean to your organization?
The benefits:
- Real Time Production Visibility
- Reduced Paperwork Load
- Downtime and Scrap Visibility
- WIP Inventory Visibility
- Improve Efficiency, Capacity Utilization
Optimize Your Manufacturing Today!