Reduce Unplanned Overtime
Missed targets are often flagged far too late, when the only fix left is overtime. Nulogy Smart Factory alerts teams the moment a line is falling behind, giving them time to respond before costly overtime is necessary.
What Causes Unplanned Overtime?
Unplanned overtime happens when a shift, a day, or a week comes in short of target and the only way left to close the gap is to add hours. The cause is rarely one big failure; instead, it's a string of small stoppages and slow changeovers that nobody caught until the numbers were already tallied.
Fixing this issue doesn't start with scheduling more hours. It starts with seeing a shortfall while it is still forming, early enough in the shift to fix the cause instead of paying for it afterward.
Ways to Reduce Unplanned Overtime
Catch a Shortfall While It's Still Fixable
See hourly output against target in real time, so a supervisor can react in the third hour of a shift, not discover the miss in the shift report.
Get Alerted the Moment Throughput Drops
A mobile or email alert flags a stoppage or a slow line the moment it happens, instead of waiting for someone to notice at shift change.
Find the Real Cause, Not Just the Symptom
See a Pareto of the downtime reasons eating into the shift, and fix the one cause responsible for most of the lost time, instead of guessing.
Protect the Schedule Without Paying for It Twice
Every OEE point recovered during the shift is output you did not have to buy back with overtime hours. It is one of the fastest ways to protect OEE.
How Nulogy Reduces Unplanned Overtime
Overtime is what you pay when a shortfall isn't caught in time. Nulogy Smart Factory connects to your existing equipment, tracks output against target line by line, and flags a shortfall while there is still time in the shift to fix it. Because it runs on the same platform that offers OEE tracking and connected maintenance, the shortfall, its cause, and the fix live on the same data. Plus, you can ask Nora, the built-in AI assistant, why a line is behind.
Ask Nora Why the Shift Is Behind
Nora is the manufacturing AI assistant built into Smart Factory. Ask in plain English, like "why is Line 5 behind target this shift?", and Nora answers from live production data in seconds, charts it, and can create the follow-up maintenance task, before the shortfall turns into a call for overtime.
Meet Nora on Smart Factory →See Smart Factory in Action
"I receive emails about the previous day's performance every morning at 6am. I can quickly compartmentalize what I need to be worried about."