FACTIVITY Inc., a purveyor of real-time data collection systems for lean factory floor management, has upgraded its flagship product with a machine monitoring software module that produces overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) measurements in real time, provides advanced repetitive order schedules for better visibility into work in process (WIP), and enhances quality control data collection, among other features.
The FACTIVITY factory management software, accessible via a new drill-down dashboard with easy-to-use touch screen interfaces for factory floor personnel, includes a real-time OEE viewer that displays equipment measurements related to availability, performance, and quality.
Availability is the percentage of “run” to the total time the equipment or employee is available. For example, if the employee works 10 hours and has “run” time of nine hours, then the availability measurement is 90%. Performance is the percentage of actual time to standard time for the operation. For example, if the employee works on an operation that should produce 100 pieces per hour and 90 pieces are produced in the hour, the performance measurement is 90%. And quality is the percentage of “good” pieces produced against the total pieces produced. So, if 10 pieces are produced, but only nine are good, the quality measurement is 90%.
In addition, an enhanced rework feature can be executed via a touch of a button to display the previous operation. And advanced repetitive schedules allow orders to be maintained independent of dates and quantities, mimicking the master order routing. In essence, these orders are virtual and visible to the floor employee to provide greater floor visibility to discrete quantities (WIP lots) without changing the original accounting cumulative part order, the company said.