Your data is well-integrated, and OEE improvements directly support your broader business objectives. Continuous improvement is built into daily operations, driving ongoing optimization across the plant.
However, you may still face challenges when technical expertise is limited to a few individuals or when support is outsourced and slow to respond.
Manufacturers at a similar stage have achieved a 1–5% increase in OEE by integrating a Smart Factory solution.
Gain visibility on to the plant floor with your machine and operator data in real-time. Smart Factory provides machine cell OEE, downtime and scrap alerts optimized for your smartphone.
With the Nulogy Smart Factory mobile app you can receive downtime alerts with reason codes by machine or cell, see OEE, cycle times, availability, performance, and quality metrics, track target production counts vs. actual, and see alert history.
Smart Factory customers monitor plant operations through the mobile app. One of Nulogy’s mold injection customers recently used the app for more than productivity monitoring.
A machine was flagged for quality issues in the finished product. The manager tagged the machine as down in the Nulogy Smart Factory production monitoring system. Then logged out on Friday and went home for a restful weekend.
The manager received a mobile alert on Saturday morning that the machine had been turned on by the weekend crew. He was able to quickly contact the shift manager to turn the machine back off.
This move prevented thousands of dollars of defective product. Without the app, they would have never known that the machine had been accidentally incorporated into the weekend’s production plan.
The Nulogy Smart Factory Integration:
Simple dashboard and integrated Pareto Chart will help you identify where to start in the first week.
Software, scoreboards, dashboards, and mobile app are easy to set-up, use, and modify by your current staff.
Software, scoreboards, dashboards, and mobile app are easy to set-up, use, and modify by your current staff.
Lincoln Manufacturing’s implementation of Nulogy Smart Factory transformed their approach to data acquisition and production monitoring. The real-time insights and significant cost savings achieved through Nulogy enabled them to optimize operations, improve decision-making, and establish effective OEE targets. Lincoln Manufacturing saved $100,000 in efficiency and by eliminating paperwork.
MES come in many sizes, complexities, and features from the most basic shop floor data collection solutions attached to an ERP system to full-blown automated solutions that are as large and complex as an SAP ERP system.
Most MES solutions allow a user to enter counts, scrap, start and stop jobs, or production runs. They can provide online documentation, traceability, job tracking, and status. They can track downtime and scrap by reason code at a high level. Many of them provide scheduling solutions too.
The operative word in the description of MES is CONTROL.
Discrete manufacturers build many different products with constantly changing specifications.
MES systems often struggle to deliver real-time visibility into this complexity.
Teams need dashboards that present data in formats plant managers can easily act on.
MES tools usually track production at a high level rather than line-by-line or unit-by-unit.
Limited granularity makes it difficult to monitor and optimize performance minute-by-minute.
Traditional MES systems are designed for repetitive, standardized production.
Discrete manufacturers need adaptable systems that handle frequent changeovers and product variation.
What insights could you unlock with a turn-key system that helps manufacturers like you push OEE to world-class levels by capturing the remaining 5% improvement?
Schedule an intro call with a Nulogy Smart Factory expert or click the button below to request a demo.
