MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS SOFTWARE: DRIVE VALUE WITH REAL-TIME DATA

Get actionable, real-time insights into your production with MachineMetrics. Increase efficiency and profitability with complete accessibility to all your manufacturing data, anytime, anywhere.

Leverage production dashboards on the shop floor for visibility and accountability, track your most important KPIs, and run in-depth reports on downtime, utilization, and OEE.

All in a plug-and-play system designed to help you make better, faster decisions and get to ROI fast.

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WHAT IS MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS SOFTWARE?

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Manufacturing analytics software is a business intelligence (BI) tool for capturing, aggregating, and analyzing manufacturing data analytics. Through the collection and standardization of data from machines, people, and systems, manufacturing analytics reveal insights about processes and functions that can lead to improvements across all levels of an organization.

MachineMetrics automates this process, delivering actionable insights in real-time to key stakeholders—from operators to managers to the CEO. Get immediate insight and control of the shop floor to improve processes and make better, faster decisions. Our average customer experiences a 20% increase in efficiency in their first month.

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Relying on everything from demand forecasting to machine utilization information, manufacturing analytics software serves to generate useful insights by relying on accurate, real-time production data.

Using software enables manufacturers to move from descriptive to predictive analytics. This means that manufacturers can advance from a reactive state and instead leverage data for more granular insights that decision-makers can use to guide the future of the organization. This ensures problems are addressed before they ever happen.

HOW A MANUFACTURING ANALYTICS SOLUTION WORKS
  • PHASE 1
  • PHASE 2
  • PHASE 3
PHASE 1: DATA COLLECTION

Manufacturers collect and aggregate data from a variety of sources, including:

  • Machine Tools: Machine assets provide information on statuses, alarms, overrides, loads, speeds, feeds, etc. MachineMetrics autonomously collects and standardizes this data across all makes and models.
  • Connected Systems: Using APIs, connected systems such as ERP, MES, and CMMS can be used to remove silos and improve the core functions of each system.
  • Operators: Humans can offer context that can’t be captured using the previous data collection methods, such as categorizing downtime events or providing a reason for a scrap part.
  • Sensors: Sensors can capture data to track nearly anything in a facility, including machine vibration, power draw, temperature, noise levels, air quality, etc.
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PHASE 2: TRANSFORM AND STANDARDIZE DATA

All data sources are not created equal, and the information collected using discrete methods is not a plug-and-play step toward generating insights. First, data has to be transformed into formats that can work together and standardized so that it is actionable.

As an oversimplified example, one hour recorded as 00:01:00 and another recorded as 01:00:00 would result in incompatible data. Standardizing the data to a common model enables the data to be put to use immediately and allows for interoperability with other systems.

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PHASE 3: DATA VISIBILITY & ACCESSIBILITY FOR DECISION-MAKING

During this phase, data becomes readily accessible to stakeholders throughout the facility. The goal at this stage is to take raw insights and make them actionable at the spindle, machine, and shop level:

  • Shop floor dashboards that showcase performance against production goals
  • Tablets with part counts at all machines
  • Remote visibility  that allows users to access insights from anywhere
  • Historical reports for root cause analysis
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BENEFITS AND USE CASES:
GETTING VALUE FROM YOUR DATA

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Benchmarking

Now that the operation has accurate data, how well are you actually performing? Data can reveal what is working well and where opportunities exist. Baselining gives users an accurate foundation on which they can prioritize continuous improvement initiatives.

With benchmarking, teams can clearly identify improvements and accurately calculate ROI of changes.

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Visibility

Shop floor visibility enables managers and operators to react quickly based on accurate, real-time data.

All the collected and standardized data from machinery, products, operators, or the environment ensures production goals are on track, environments are healthy and safe, and workers are informed and satisfied—all the while reducing costs while maintaining quality.

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KPI Improvement

Data offers insights into what matters most in a manufacturing organization as well as which improvements can make the most impact, so decision-makers can better prioritize high-impact, high-success actions.

Data helps manufacturers identify and resolve bottlenecks, reduce downtime, and increase OEE.

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Automation

With accurate, real-time data, you can begin to automate activities on the shop floor. Automated workflows that are relatively easy to implement can generate massive value for manufacturers:

  • Alarms and Condition-Based Thresholds
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Scheduled Maintenance
  • Quality Inspection

WHY MACHINEMETRICS?

MachineMetrics is different from other manufacturing analytics software solutions. There are a variety of benefits our customers realize:
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PLUG-AND-PLAY SOLUTION
Easy to deploy, collecting data in minutes so that manufacturers can get to value fast.
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REAL-TIME DATA
Instant visibility into shop floor performance so you can make decisions faster.
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TRACK YOUR MOST IMPORTANT METRICS
Monitor data from equipment to report jobs, cycle times, utilization, and OEE.
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DETAILED PRODUCTION ANALYTICS
Historical analytics as well as real-time machine monitoring and insights.
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ALERTS AND NOTIFICATION
Improve maintenance and reduce downtime with automated notifications.
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BETTER, FASTER DECISION-MAKING
Give operators and managers the information they need, where and when they need it.

FEATURES: HOW TO SELECT AN ANALYTICS SOLUTION

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SIMPLE MACHINE INTEGRATION

Plug-and-Play universal machine connectivity and data collection from PLC's supporting protocols including: MTConnect, Fanuc, OPC-UA, UMATI, Mitsubishi, Citizen, Haas, Heidenhain, Siemens Sinumerik, Modbus, and Ethernet IP. MachineMetrics Edge supports digital and analog I/O for machines without a standard connectivity option to integrate even the most challenging equipment.

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MACHINE DOWNTIME TRACKING

Why aren't your machines aren’t running? Solve machine downtime and utilization problems using machine data.

With each machine equipped with a touchscreen enabling operators to categorize downtime as it's happening, managers can review the data in real-time via pareto charts.

This quickly pinpoints the most egregious causes of unplanned downtime.

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TRACK YOUR MOST IMPORTANT METRICS AND ACTIVITIES

Optimize your processes using advanced data analytics. With MachineMetrics, you will have real-time insights as well as access to historical data on OEE, quality, machine utilization, job setups and changeover, etc.

Accurate, real-time analytics will give your team the information to make better decisions faster than ever before. Or dive deep with an in-depth analysis of custom reports, pareto charts, and visualizations that include your business's most essential metrics.

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DETAILED ANALYTICS

MachineMetrics gives you the ability to export all of a machine's event history for any period of time. This timeline option is useful for analyzing what happened and when, including data on status, faults, programs, part cycles, and jobs. View the performance of all machines for a single day, or drill down into a single machine for a very detailed view.

Information such as cycle times, performance, number of parts produced, rejects, downtime reasons, and reject reasons can be reported for each part operation as well. This allows managers to quickly identify issues related to a specific machining operation and help measure the effect of process improvements.

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