As businesses strive to improve efficiencies in their manufacturing processes, many have found that the information they require spans multiple business systems or cannot be realized at all due to the lack of integration. Since most enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES) or material management (MM) systems require years to implement, major changes to those systems may be out of the question.
Built upon the proven and widely used VisiTack Platform, the Acsis ProductionTrak system can be easily adapted to existing business systems to provide the improved situational awareness and integration needed to improve production management and remain competitive.
Acsis ProductionTrack provides a platform for business process automation that orchestrates manufacturing and material handling activities at each point of interaction with an item.
Some of the key benefits of ProductionTrack include the elimination of paper-based processes, significant cost savings and key sustainability accomplishment, greater management control through performance data collection, defect analysis and tracking, and reduced training errors through the use of online digitized assembly documents.
ProductionTrack provides an interactive interface that helps the assembly line personnel to perform their activities by giving them step by step instructions. ProductionTrack acts as a manufacturing traceability solution with bar-code and RFID technology for automation and integration of shop floor devices, data and processes.
Some of your challenges may include:
Manual Paper based execution system
- Supervision prints, sorts, distributes, updates, and files paper order information
Supervision overwhelmed
- Managing change
- Tasking Individuals to push work through process
- Synchronizing Packaging, material handling, production, quality and shipping functions
Management would like Supervision to concentrate on:
- Resolving Issues
- Planning production for higher through put
- Raising productivity and through put
Visibility Issues
- Supervisor point of view
- Where is the job
- How much is complete
- What more to do
- Where are the bottle necks
- Sales Point of view
- Where is my customers order
- What is in process that I can sell
Quality Issues
- Wrong components consumed
- Improper processing
- No QA enforcement
Productivity Issues
- Waiting to be tasked
- Lack of standards
- No ability to monitor or measure
Data Recording Issues
- Manually entered production and consumption of inventory (next day)
- Manual product genealogy – inaccurate approximation
- Manual recording of quality results
- Manual and inaccurate recording of production data
- Eliminates Paper based tracking, tasking, recording
- Develops Employee Productivity measurements and reports against standard
- Tracks Product Genealogy
- Provides Process Visibility and order status monitoring
- Synchronizes, process, equipment, human resources, and material flow
- Eliminates lag time between processes.
- Enables management by exception through notifications.
- System develops and enforces continuous flow
- Provides an historical documentation of all activities
- Enforces quality policy
- Eliminates material identification and recording errors in manufacturing.
- Eliminates the tasks associated with the collection, routing, sorting, entry and filing of manufacturing event data.
- Provide accurate collection and availability of production KPI data
- Enhance quality by pushing current build documentation directly to the production floor
- Reduce product cost by increasing overall production process efficiency
- Visibility to production labor and enable accurate production standards and planning
- Enhance customer relationship by providing enhanced order visibility with in the manufacturing process
- Increase velocity, visibility of discrepant material and quicker issue resolution
Dashboards & reports provide ‘real-time view’ into WIP as well as historical view for a time frame:
- What orders are in process, what is their status?
- What materials are defective?
- Level of quality rejects (with grouping by order, reasons, etc.)
- Breakdown of units by disposition (numbers released as complete, incomplete, etc.)
- Throughput (e.g. number of units produced this week, this month, today, per unit time, etc.)
- Operator performance
- Line /work center effectiveness
- Downtime dashboard
- Key performance indicators (KPI) such as Ups-Outs, Schedule Conformance