Having easy access to accurate manufacturing key performance indicators is vital to effective management and production efficiency.  This is a major benefit of a Plantrun real-time manufacturing information system.

The data that is collected and stored by the system provides a range of KPI management reports.  Any data available within the system database can form the basis of a KPI report, including production quantities, efficiencies, run and stop time, stoppage frequencies, reject rates etc.  It is possible to report by machine, operator, machine group and type, product, batch, and work centre or cell.  Reports can be generated on demand or automatically by job, batch, shift, day, week, month etc. They can be viewed on screen, printed out, emailed, sent to a fax machine or as an SMS text message to a mobile phone.

Cycle Time Reduction

Manufacturing cycle time calculation, analysis and reduction can have a dramatic impact on production efficiency in many industry sectors.  Plantrun is a powerful tool for cycle time management by providing high accuracy cycle time data.  This allows you to accurately benchmark and track cycle time using the comprehensive range of built in displays, graphing and reporting options.

Rather than provided hundreds of generic reports each Plantrun system is supplied with a customer specified set of reports. This ensures that the customer gets the reports that are needed and will be used.  It is also easy to edit reports or create new ones as and when required.  Reports can be formatted to use text, graphics, trends or any combination for limitless styles.

Plantrun not only eliminates the need for manual data collection, filling in of forms and data inputting to spreadsheets etc. but also provides the KPI information in a form which is easy to analyse thereby further reducing wasted time.  This can often save 30 to 60 minutes per shift and information flow from one shift to the next is greatly improved.  Time saved on data collection and inputting allows more time for evaluation, analysis and other more productive work. If required, data can be easily exported directly to any standard spreadsheet or reporting packages.  

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