Meet Mark, Factory Production Manager
Mark contacts Jane,
the quality manager of this factory floor.
Mark uses the global dashboard to access production efficiency, quality, and OEE metrics for all his production facilities.
Mark would like to analyze what is going on with the availability metric. Here, he only sees an aggregated view. However, Mark will have the ability to also review in greater detail each of the factories to identify the root cause. Once he picks the relevant unit, he will be redirected to the factory level dashboards. From there, he delves deeper into the details to find the root cause analysis.
Mark has visibility of different factory areas and individual production lines. He can click through to that factory's quality overview dashboard.
Mark opens the dashboard with the details about quality insights and can see five charts with the general manufacturing metrics.
This dashboard offers insight into your factory's overall quality metrics, allowing you to view metrics such as:
· The number of defects compared to the target
· Defects categorized by type
· Defects categorized by consequence
· Defects categorized by parts
· The cost associated with defects
To schedule a fix, she can use her interactive report dashboard that displays tasks, assignments, workload, and test statuses — allowing her to see when an engineer can fix the problem and how quickly the machine will be up and running.
Jane’s view is designed to make her job more manageable.
Jane focuses on quality management and continuous process improvement. Having access to the same dashboards as Mark, she has already discovered the machine that is down and is working on a solution.
Mark can quickly identify areas that need attention because they are highlighted in red.
Real-World Scenarios
Production Data Tower Use Cases
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OEE Metrics Analysis
Evaluate overall equipment efficiency (OEE) metrics and their components (availability, performance, quality) at the factory or production area/line level. Conduct a detailed root cause analysis of OEE by delving deeper into equipment downtime/uptime details.
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Production Quality Checklist Preparation
Develop digital procedures and checklists to guide the production quality inspection process.
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Production Quality Checks
Enable operators or quality engineers to perform production quality inspections using digital solutions.
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Quality Issue Registration
Empower operators or quality engineers to log quality incidents into digital solutions, assign necessary actions, and conduct root cause analyses.
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Production Quality Data Collection
Gather data from digital quality inspection solutions to analyze quality metrics and generate corrective actions.
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Production Data Collection and Integration
Collect data from various sources and digital solutions to facilitate end-to-end production data analysis (Production Data Tower).
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Factory Production Metrics Analysis
Examine factory metrics, such as OEE, performance, and quality, to gain high-level insights into factory operations.
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Production Quality Metrics Analysis
Assess production quality metrics, such as scrap rates and first-pass yield, at the factory or production line level. Conduct detailed root cause analyses by exploring defect counts, their categories, consequences, and costs.