Whitepapers

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KPI, OEE and Downtime Analytics

This whitepaper hopes to answer some of the questions around machine servicing and replacement, production goals, machine and station cycle times and total performance and availability.
Intended Audience: Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives and Process Engineers.

Strategies for Operational Excellence

Companies across the world face a variety of business problems including the integration of disparate systems and vendors' proprietary system formats, physical/data security concerns, global competition, IT bottlenecks, and constantly changing corporate priorities. Operational Excellence helps to alleviate these concerns and meet business-driven goals such as continuous improvement, unified visualisation of data, real-time performance, flexibility/adaptability and plant floor connectivity. Implementing an Operational Excellence strategy helps lead to better collaboration from plant floor to the executive level and provides empowerment throughout the organisation. This whitepaper contains information on a range of ICONICS' Products inlcuding the ICONICS OEE Solution and the application for achieving Operational Excellence.

Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions

Manufacturing Intelligence provides a common basis for using manufacturing information from the plant floor to enterprise systems and business partners. Supporting the enterprise's information and visualisation requirements goes beyond HMI software and places new demands on manufacturing management systems.
This whitepaper, authored by Craig Resnick of ARC Advisory Group, contains information on several ICONICS' and third-party solutions. An overview of ICONICS OEE (Powered by the BizViz suite) and other manufacturing intelligence suites is presented.

SAP BAPI Connector

Plant engineers and managers need to make informed decisions and implement best practices. Many are looking for answers to questions such as 'Which machines need to be serviced, replaced, or decommissioned?', 'Have my production goals been achieved and am I on target to achieve them?' or 'What is the total performance and total availability?' Plant and operations personnel are able to make informed decisions using advanced downtime reporting capabilities.
This whitepaper uses Knowledge Point Indicators (KPIs), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Downtime to demonstrate the collection, analysis, and reporting of system data. ICONICS Solutions enable plants to significantly improve efficiencies by capturing detailed events, faults, and production information from equipment and operators for a variety of analytics with the ICONICS reporting, data management and visualisation toolsets.
Intended Audience: Plant Managers, Operators, Manufacturing Executives and Process Engineers, IT Professionals, Maintenance Personnel and anyone desiring a better understanding of KPI, OEE or Downtime Factors and Analysis.