Productivity

Why improve productivity?

Increasing productivity is a crucial issue for any manufacturer, for several reasons:

• Reduce costs: Better productivity makes it possible to produce more with the same resources, thus reducing unit costs and increasing margins.
• Postpone investments: Improving productivity makes it possible to meet growing demand without having to invest in new production lines.
• Freeing up resources: Increasing productivity can make it possible to free up resources (teams, production tools) to devote them to new projects and prepare for the future of the company.

In short, increasing its productivity allows a manufacturer to remain competitive, to adapt to market changes and to ensure its sustainability.

Two approaches: OEE and Loss tracking

Depending on the approach chosen, manufacturers can obtain a complete vision of their performance and identify the most relevant improvement levers to increase their productivity.

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

The OEE is an overall performance indicator for production equipment. It measures the real efficiency of a machine or a production line in relation to its maximum theoretical capacity.

The OEE takes into account three main factors:

• Availability: the actual operating time compared to the planned time
• Performance: the real pace compared to the theoretical pace
• Quality: the number of compliant products in relation to the total number of products manufactured

Loss tracking

Loss tracking determines the difference between real production and the theoretical maximum output over a given period of time. It quantifies production losses due to various factors such as:

• Machine failures
• The changes in the series
• The micro stops
• The downturns
• Quality issues

Production loss is generally expressed in units of production (pieces, tons, etc.) or in monetary value. It makes it possible to identify the most important sources of losses and to prioritize improvement actions.

Improve your productivity with OIAnalytics

Automate the monitoring of your productivity

Where possible, our tools can be configured to automatically generate the information needed to monitor your OEE or production loss from the data collected by your automated production systems. If all data is not available, missing data can be easily entered by operators.

Thus, you can build your OEE or your loss tracking automatically, manually or in a hybrid way, depending on your context. Our solutions can also collect data directly from your existing systems if you have one and want to keep it while getting more value from the data it generates.

A new approach to go beyond measurement and KPIs

Our approach to productivity is much broader than simply measuring KPIs. We model productivity in such a way that the data generated can be easily used for the traditional management of OEE and production loss (KPI monitoring, Pareto loss analysis...) while offering you new possibilities:

• Provide the field teams with interfaces allowing them to interact fluidly with all information relating to productivity.
• Have fully customizable reports to analyze productivity performance in a more advanced way.
• Combine productivity-related data (production stoppages, opening periods, etc.) with other production process data, opening up numerous new applications and analysis possibilities.
• Integrate data derived from your productivity data into your visualizations, control charts, analyses... like any other data from the contextualization engine.

Use your data to improve productivity

As a result, you can better understand how other metrics affect your productivity, investigate the root causes of productivity losses, and then take the right corrective and improvement actions.