Managing downtime
Within the production system, unfortunately, cases of production standstill/downtime happen quite frequently; it is necessary to identify them, keep track of them and implement corrective measures in the fastest possible manner
Are you aware of the causes of your standstill/downtime which impact mostly on your production?
Downtime management is a critical aspect which many production sites have in common. Within the production system, unfortunately, cases of production standstill/downtime happen quite frequently; it is necessary to identify them, keep track of them and implement corrective measures in the fastest possible manner
Downtime Management allows to identify downtime and specify the causes while analyzing their impact on production
OBJECTIVE
Increase productivity efficiency through assembly line standstill reduction
PROBLEM
For who produces extensible film to polyethylene, it is essential to understand the causes of assembly line standstills so as to individualize and reduce those which are of major impact on production. If these causes are not analyzed, it won’t be possible to understand which ones create the most damage to production and why they occur, with a consequent inability to take the necessary, corrective measures.
SOLUTION:
Downtime Management monitors and analyzes machinery standstills, offering tools aimed at structural reduction of the above standstills. The solution allows to identify on which standstills it is most appropriate to concentrate in order to have a considerable reduction of the time lost. This way, the site has the possibility to focus directly on the main standstills and their causes and to intervene promptly on those standstills that more than others impact significantly on productive efficiency (e.g.: “empty space on the machinery”, “machinery regulation”, “incorrect positioning”, etc.), predisposing, for example, a different maintenance plan.
Briefly, the solution is capable of:
- Receiving notification in real time regarding assembly line standstills
- Monitoring and cataloguing the causes of the standstill
- Bettering programmed maintenance plans
- Analyzing collected data so as to detect the causes of major impact on the inefficiencies in production
BENEFITS
Thanks to collected data it is possible to determine “Time To Failure”, that is the time between on standstill and another one of the same kind, and the frequency in which it happens. The site is thus able to understand both the gravity of the various standstills (time lost), as well as the frequency with which they happen.
Only by identifying the standstills which lead to a consistent time loss before restarting the normal functioning cycle is it possible to implement action plans aimed at reducing them and so consequently increase production efficiency.