Key features of the Ekho overall Equipment Efficiency Solution:
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Analysis of operating cost variables
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Analysis of equipment stoppages and breakdowns
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Control of fluctuations in product specification, quality, cost, and manufacturing time
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Process and batch holds tracing
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Report on forecast deviations
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Performance curves
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Alarms in case of equipment stoppages and breakdowns, and production reductions or increases
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Supplier accountability with respect to product quality
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Reduced losses
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Reduced rejects, returns and downgrades
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Identification of congested areas, slowdowns, and other inefficiencies
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Increased equipment availability
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Improved production time
Overall Equipment efficiency
Achieving world-class Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) is critical to your competitive success. And if, to get there, you want to increase material availability, improve final product quality, or raise the productivity level of your plants and equipment, you need to plan carefully and find the right tools to help you. Ekho provides measurable information on production processes, from which you can choose the improvements you wish to implement to increase your company’s profitability.
Since each plant and each manufacturing process is different, you must first measure their efficiency to make the necessary improvements. By calculating the OEE, Ekho helps to reduce waste, rejects, and returns by identifying congested areas and the causes of equipment failures, downtimes, and process and batch holds. And, best of all, it provides you with the means to address equipment availability issues and maximize production time. The Ekho solution lets you calculate your OEE by multiplying three key production parameters—availability, performance, and quality—according to the following formula:
OEE = Availability X Performance X Quality
Availability (%)
=
Actual running time or operating time / planned production time
Performance (speed) (%)
=
(Ideal cycle time X pieces produced) / operating time
Quality (%)
=
Good pieces / total pieces produced
Equipment effectiveness usually sits close to 60%. To compete with global production levels, a business needs to boost its level of efficiency by an extra 20%. Ekho OEE Solutions gather and correlate an exponential quantity of data on downtime, quality, and performance, in real time. It will help you maximize your knowledge, thereby giving you the tools to be able to ramp up your production to world-class levels.
The Ekho platform’s Spek, Clock, Track and Look
give you the tool and centralized data
to help you measure real-time performance, allowing you to optimize
availability, speed, and quality, thereby achieving the full potential
of performance gains. For a more detailed description of the benefits
of this solution, you can download the OEE leaflet.
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