Increase Yield, Reduce Costs, Improve On-Time Deliveries
Today's pressure to increase efficiency and optimize business processes is pushing the demand for real-time operational visibility on the shop floor. Lean manufacturing methodologies like JIT and Kanban are intended to increase yield and reduce costs by increasing productivity and improving process efficiency and quality. The thread that connects all of these business objectives is visibility. Not just what is available on today’s ERP and planning screens but the visibility into real-time physical operations that new contactless sensors bring to life. Manufacturers face many challenges that affect their bottom line: costly stock outs and high "safety" stock levels, and production bottlenecks that increase cycle-time, delivery errors and lost orders. In addition, their customers are demanding transparency on status of work-in-progress and pedigree data for parts, components, or raw materials that make up the end product.
Act in real-time not on history
Today’s complex processing systems for enterprise planning and execution can effectively coordinate business and manufacturing operations but the information available is often not an accurate representation of real-time physical operations. Responding to real-time production issues requires real-time visibility, not a historical hourly or daily record.
Real-time visibility on materials, process, or machine interactions can be leveraged to fix real-time production problems by quickly identifying the source, to enable product recalls, or to validate the end product for customers who are increasingly demanding detailed knowledge on the contents, delivery dates, and history of the material, parts, or end products they are buying.
Omnitrol’s real-time manufacturing visibility solution is specifically designed to solve production and operational problems in real-time, supporting both repetitive and discrete (work-order) manufacturing methods. It provides exceptional flexibility and ease-of-use for single and multi-site wide tracking and includes rich reporting and alerting capabilities.
OMNITROL real-time manufacturing visibility solution benefits include:
- Substantial increase in manufacturing yield by optimizing business processes
- Improvement in manufacturing cycle time and eliminate bottlenecks
- Improvement in equipment effectiveness and on-time delivery
- Complete EPC compliant traceability (BOM, lot, parts and batch) to finished products
- Seamless transition from barcode serialization to EPC serialization
- Increase customer satisfaction by providing real-time order status and delivery dates
- Integrated mobile phone access dashboards for anytime, anywhere real-time visibility
OMNITROL real-time manufacturing visibility solution features:
- Consolidated view of several assembly lines through a secured Web or Java-based portal providing alerts, tracking information, and historical data.
- Provides remote visibility using handhelds.
- Integrates with leading AIDC technologies, such as RFID, traditional and 2D barcode and RTLS to enable scalable track and trace capabilities
- Integrates a variety of sensor and PLC control systems to enhance data capture & automation
- Real-time exception notification triggered by events such as exceeding timing threshold, dwell time, or invalid employeee
- Automatic rule-based alerts through email, text and voice messages
