Shop Floor Management Update Highlights 2025-01
Roland Wetzl
29. January 2025
Machine Eye Tiles for MTBF, MTTR and Duration Tracking
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) helps identify performance patterns and emerging issues, enabling proactive maintenance and minimizing downtime. MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) allows teams to spot bottlenecks and improve response times, optimizing resource allocation for faster equipment recovery. The Duration Counter provides real-time visibility into machine status, allowing quick assessments of whether operations are on track or need attention, thus enhancing workflow management.
These automatic calculated metrics are crucial for optimizing plant availability, supporting predictive maintenance, improving quality and reducing costs through fewer failures and shorter repairs, ultimately boosting efficiency and competitiveness.
Anonymous Counters for Flexible Tracking
Anonymous counters track production events without affecting OEE or quality metrics, making them ideal for monitoring processes like rework. For example, a sensor at a rework buffer entry can detect passing products, while an anonymous counter records their occurrences without classifying them as scrap. With configurable names, these counters can be easily integrated into reports and Data Analytics dashboards.
Use Quick Select to Reason Downtimes
The quick select component allows you to quickly assign reasons for past downtimes with a single click, reducing input complexity and improving efficiency.
Dynamic Tab Orders for Optimized Layouts
Dynamic tab orders allow you to align the Production Terminal layout with your physical manufacturing setup, prioritize machines and customize the display order for multiple machine layouts, ensuring a more intuitive and efficient workflow.
Simplified Component Settings with Forms
Configuring Production Terminal components via forms improves readability, minimizes errors and eliminates JSON typos, ensuring more reliable and user-friendly setting adjustments.
New Components for Current Time and Order Aim Time
The new components display the current time and order aim time, allowing operators to easily monitor time from a distance. This enhances production workflows, supports upcoming product or grade changes and ensures smooth operations by preparing for the completion of the current logon.
Conclusion
The new shop floor management features significantly improve user-friendliness and efficiency. Regardless of your position in the company, the new functions support you in achieving your production targets faster and more precisely.
We look forward to seeing how these improvements will support you and your team. For more details, please consult your user manual or contact us directly: we will be happy to help and advise you if you have any questions or feedback.
Stay tuned – more updates coming soon! 🚀
Release Notes
In our release notes you will find constantly updated technical information as well as information on new functions, improvements and fixed bugs in our software solutions.
