They assist manufacturing and to some extend mining companies to keep track of the following important factors in a factory/plant:
Down Time represents delays or stoppages in your plant/factory.
Target Production Rate is normally set by planning considering many factors.
Represents the availability of your plant/factory for production. It is a percentage derived from dividing Plant Available/Up Time by Calendar Time. Plant Available/Up Time is in turn derived from Calendar Time minus Down Time.
A percentage that represent the output of your plant/factory. It is derived from dividing Production Output Tonnages by Target Tonnages. Target Tonnages are derived from Available/Up Time multiplied by Target Production Rate.
Management and planning of Production Shift. Factory or plant personnel are normally grouped into Morning, Afternoon and Night shifts.
The above-mentioned factors might look easy but they can be a nightmare if your organisation doesn’t have a proper MES system in place to track the plant/factory performance. Our MES Consultants are highly skilled and they apply the ISA 95 standard in all the solutions. If you have invested in a SCADA and have a Historian to store your plant tags but you still struggling in some or all of the above-mentioned factors, we have expertise to assist. We will recommend and develop a custom system for your operations. Even if you are not sure we can solve, try us.
